Walks & Easy Hikes in the Canadian Rockies (Altitude Superguides Series) [Paperback]

Graeme Pole (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1999

This guide is designed as a companion to Classic Hikes in the Canadian Rockies. It focuses on short but pleasant hikes with easy access from the highway. The hikes range from a few minutes' duration to only a couple of hours.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

A comprehensive guide to all the best walks and easy hikes in Canada's Rocky Mountains. This book is ideal for casual explorers of all ages, abilities and interests. In fact, Walks and Easy Hikes provides all the information you need to experience the magnificent mountain environment of the Canadian Rockies from trails and paths that start right beside the road. Each hike is introduced with detailed route and trailhead instructions. Full colour maps indicate the location and direction of each hike and point out the outstanding landscape features. The hike descriptions are supplemented with important information on history, geology and nature. The book includes information on wheelchair accessible tails, as well as walks for the elderly and those with young families. This book is ideal for all those who love experiencing the outdoors - from novice hiker to seasoned back-country veteran. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Graeme Pole has been writing professionally since 1989. He is the best-selling author and photographer of six non-fiction books that describe the human history and the natural history of western Canada: Canadian Rockies SuperGuide (1991, 1997), The Canadian Rockies: A History in Photographs (1991), Walks and Easy Hikes in the Canadian Rockies (1992, 1996), Classic Hikes in the Canadian Rockies (1994, 2003), The Spiral Tunnels and The Big Hill (1996) and David Thompson (2003).He has written and published one novel, Healy Park (1998). His wilderness essays and photography have been widely circulated.

Graeme's books have aggregate annual sales of more than thirty thousand copies. Three of his titles have been finalists in the Banff Mountain Book Festival. Classic Hikes in the Canadian Rockies won the Mountain Exposition category at the inaugural festival in 1994. Graeme has been a runner-up for the Andy Russell Nature Writers' Award (1995), a finalist in the Crown of the Continent Nature Writing Award (1998), and in 1997 received a Northwest Outdoor Writers' Association "Excellence in Craft Award," and the inaugural Teddi Brown Award for Nature Writing, for which he was also runner-up. Healy Park was a "Staff Pick" at the Calgary Public Library, and was published to favourable reviews in 1998.

Graeme continues to write fiction and non-fiction. He has circulated an illustrated anthology of landscape essays, yet to be published, and has a novel, set in coastal BC, on the back burner. He lives with his family near Hazelton in northwestern BC, where he serves as a paramedic.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Altitude Pub Canada Ltd (December 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1551537087
• ISBN-13: 978-1551537085
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,117,482 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Graeme Pole has been trooping around the Canadian Rockies for almost 30 years, and has been writing about the human history and the natural history of western Canada since 1989. His catalogue includes eleven published books with cumulative sales of more than 300,000 copies. Graeme lives with his family near Hazelton in northwestern BC, where he serves as a paramedic. Hold that thought; there goes the pager....
Visit his website: http://mountainvision.ca

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Close But Not Quite, December 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Walks & Easy Hikes in the Canadian Rockies (Altitude Superguides Series) (Paperback)

The one negative thing about the book was that only half of the trails listed in the book have maps with them. However, their are several positive things about the book: 1. It is printed on very thick and durable paper (which should stand up will if used while on the hikes). 2. The 50 hikes with maps do have excellent pictures associated with them. 3. All of the hikes list the best time of the day to catch the best lighting for pictures, and are classified according to degree of difficulty.

4. The following parks are covered: Banff, Jasper, Kootenay, Yoho, and Waterton. 5.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent for starters, August 2, 2000

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Conny Ellison (Breda Netherlands) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Walks & Easy Hikes in the Canadian Rockies (Altitude Superguides Series) (Paperback)

Because we forgot to bring the books we already had at home, we had to buy new ones once we arrived in the Canadian Rockies this summer. This one did exactly what we wanted it to: it gave us an idea of which hikes to do (with so much choice and so little time), and they all lived up to what the description promised in the book. We did however sometimes wonder how the author came to rate the hikes easy, moderate or difficult, as we found some that were meant to be easy more difficult and ones that were rated moderate/hard quite easy. Nevertheless: a very good book to give you an appetite for hiking in the Rockies and very helpful when you don't have much time.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply Excellent, April 29, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Walks & Easy Hikes in the Canadian Rockies (Altitude Superguides Series) (Paperback)

These are excellent walks for those on a time budget but who want to see more than the hoard from the latest coach tour. The scenery is so vast that walking further gains little benefit anyway, but it gets you out of the car park and to some breathtaking scenery and peace and quiet. In most cases with very little effort.

If you like photography and if you don't, it tells you the best time of day to see the sights - Use it to plan your holiday - you don't need anything else.

Easy to read, easy on the eye and not too big; the best guide to any area I've visited.