50 Best Short Hikes in Yosemite and Sequoia/Kings Canyon [Paperback]

John Krist (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1993

A guide for families and other busy people who want to explore the Sierra Nevada's three national parks on foot, but don't have the time for a multi-day backpacking trip.

Includes information on park facilities and accommodations, and tips for hiking with children. Each hike description lists mileage, difficulty, elevation gain and a "child rating," indicating the age range for which the trail is best suited. Custom maps show all the routes.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Wilderness Press (June 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0899971326
• ISBN-13: 978-0899971322
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,723,968 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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50 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great book for non-backpackers, November 18, 1998

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This review is from: 50 Best Short Hikes in Yosemite and Sequoia/Kings Canyon (Paperback)

This book details out many great trails in both parks. Most trails are some what long and require a whole day. I would not recommend it if you are looking for great 1-3 mile trails, as most of them are much longer.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars pretty good, but..., July 17, 2002

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This review is from: 50 Best Short Hikes in Yosemite and Sequoia/Kings Canyon (Paperback)

The writing about the history, geology, and forests of the park is excellent. Although a short read, it covers the highlights well.

There are many hikes in the book that sound great. We tried to do a couple of the hikes out of the book, and we had some issues with the layout of the book and trail descriptions.

First of all, the maps of the trails are all at the back of the book. If you're on the trail looking at the directions in the description and want to check the map, you have to flip to the back to see the map, which is a little annoying.

One of the routes we tried to do (Log Meadow Loop) seemed to be well described, but the actual trail did not correspond to the description in the book. The map helped us to figure out how to take an alternate route that was pretty good and took us past most of the sights we would have seen.

Another hike (North Grove Loop) that was rated as easy (suitable for young children) turned out to be short but also a pretty steep climb, and I'm not sure that a 6 year old would have done well on this trail.

Despite these disappointments, the other hikes we took in the park were excellent and well described in the book.

I think the editor would have done better to put maps with the hikes instead of at the end.

It is possible that some of the problems we had in the first hike were due to changes in the trail that had been made since the book was published. We met another lost couple who couldn't find the trail with a different Sequoia book.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Ok hikes, good history, November 27, 2009

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This review is from: 50 Best Short Hikes in Yosemite and Sequoia/Kings Canyon (Paperback)

I only visted Yosemite. I would only recommend this book if you plan on visiting both parks. The history section on Yosemity was very good, but the hiking trail inforamtion is better presented in other books.