This fully revised and updated guide to hiking in Yosemite National Park will help readers choose and plan a day hike or backpacking trip best suited to their time, energy, experience, and personal preferences. There are fifty-nine classic day hikes and overnight backpacking trips meticulously prepared by backcountry guide Suzanne Swedo.
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For more than twenty-five years, FalconGuide® has set the standard for outdoor recreation guidebooks. Written by top outdoors experts and enthusiasts, each guide invites you to experience the endless adventure and rugged beauty of the great outdoors.
Hiking Yosemite National Park features fifty-nine of the park's finest trails-from day hikes to backcountry treks. With this comprehensive guide, veteran outdoors writer Suzanne Swedo provides all the information you need to get the most out of hiking this natural wonderland.
Look inside to find:
Hikes suited to every ability
Accurate directions to the trailhead
Comprehensive trail descriptions
GPS-compatible maps and route profiles
Mile-by-mile directional cues
Difficulty ratings, trail contacts, fees/permits, local information, and much more
Hiking Yosemite National Park features fifty-nine of the park's finest trails-from day hikes to backcountry treks. With this comprehensive guide, veteran outdoors writer Suzanne Swedo provides all the information you need to get the most out of hiking this natural wonderland.
Look inside to find:
Hikes suited to every ability
Accurate directions to the trailhead
Comprehensive trail descriptions
GPS-compatible maps and route profiles
Mile-by-mile directional cues
Difficulty ratings, trail contacts, fees/permits, local information, and much more
About the Author
Suzanne Swedo, director of W.I.L.D., teaches wilderness survival and natural sciences at universities, museums, and organizations such as Yosemite Association and the Sierra Club. She has backpacked the mountains of every continent and led groups into the wilderness for over twenty-five years. Her books include Wilderness Survival, Hiking California's Golden Trout Wilderness, Best Easy Day Hikes Yosemite National Park, and Adventure Travel Tips (Falcon). She lives in Van Nuys, California.
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31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very informative!,
This review is from: Hiking Yosemite National Park (Paperback)
This is a great book for both hikers wanting the more popular, "touristy" hikes and those wanting a physical challenge. There are detailed descriptions for all the hikes, and she even breaks down the hikes by her favorite hikes for "high altitude", "photo opps", "waterfalls", "solitude", etc. I found the descriptions pretty accurate. A good book for someone who's not so familiar with all the different types of hikes in Yosemite.
38 of 42 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
hiking book collector,
By A Customer
This review is from: Hiking Yosemite National Park (Paperback)
I spend all winter planning my hikes for the summer. I own and have used most of the titles for Yosemite. Hiking Yosemite National Park has most of the most popular trails but two other books do a better job: 100 Hikes in Yosemite National Park and Lonely Planet Hiking in the Sierra Nevada.My main complaint is the incomplete descriptions, too short and too vague. If you get off the trail you'll run the risk of getting lost because there are no "big picture" maps. A topo is absolutely essential if you want to understand your location.
27 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent and concise guide,
By Candace Scott (Lake Arrowhead, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hiking Yosemite National Park (Paperback)
This is an indispensible guidebook for any hiker who loves Yosemite. I use it almost daily during hiking season and it helps in selecting hikes, planning them, reaching the trailhead and gauging whether a hike will be worthwhile. Each hike contains an accurate, though brief, description of the rigors of each trek. Occasionally I quibble with the authors ranking of a given hike, but usually they are on the mark.A few cautionary notes: there are no detailed maps in the book, except general maps which introduce the hiker to each specific place. Te map for the John Muir trail, for example, is very basic. Don't expect detailed maps for each hike because there are none. The descriptions of how to reach each trailhead are excellent, unless you have little experience with Yosemite. My favorite part of the book is that the Touloume Meadows High Country area is not neglected. Swedo has various categories and list the hikes they think are best suited to be placed in every league and the valley floor is not the only area of the park that is stressed .If you spend any time hiking in Yosemite, this book is essential!
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