60 Hikes within 60 Miles: San Francisco (Paperback)

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...a handy outdoor travel guide for San Francisco visitors and residents alike...highly recommended. -- Library Bookwatch (The Midwest Book Review), April, 2004

...melds geology, botany, wildlife, regional history...offers an experience all within sixty miles of home. -- Bay Nature, October-December, 2004

The book has excellent graphics. -- Ridge Lines, Spring, 2004 (Bay Area Ridge Trail Council)

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Praise for a previously published edition:
"A handy new guidebook close to home."--Potomac Review

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 280 pages
• Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press; 1st edition (December 10, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0897325532
• ISBN-13: 978-0897325530
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #784,829 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good hikes in an average guide, June 27, 2009

By	Marcus Peacock (Washington, DC United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: 60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Washington, DC: Including Suburban and Outlying Areas of Maryland and Virginia (2nd Edition) (60 Hikes - Menasha Ridge) (Paperback)

I've tried to like this guide, I really have. The author seems a nice fellow. The hikes are diverse and interesting. The writeups include a nice dollop of history. And it's got 60 hikes -- that's a lot of hikes. But it is not 'above average.' Why? First, it's occasionally unreliable. Take hike #7, on and near Catholic University. The author sends you behind the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center to 'savor the view' from a grassy knoll. A parking lot and air compressors is what you savor. Second, I have a dog. Can I take my dog on these hikes? I can't tell. You won't find the words 'pet', 'dog', 'leash' anywhere. Finally, the directions are just a little sloppy at times. For instance, hike #14 (Black Hill Regional Park) tells you to go "right" at an orange pole that has a number of trails eminating from it. It took me half a mile to realize I was heading too far south for it to be the right trail. The best guides often organize hikes around mileage - they mark notable features always starting with the mileage the hiker has gone from the start and then describe what you should do or what you will find there. "60 Hikes" is written up more as a travel log. The mileage is often there, but its thrown in at different spots. Sometimes the directions have too much detail and other times not enough. In short, it's just harder to follow if you are trying to use it on the trail. Are these big problems? Not really, but that's what separates the good guides from the great guides.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good book, August 9, 2009

By	applebaum8 - See all my reviews

This review is from: 60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Washington, DC: Including Suburban and Outlying Areas of Maryland and Virginia (2nd Edition) (60 Hikes - Menasha Ridge) (Paperback)

This is a great book for the beginner hiker to know what's out there. However my main gripe is that in the front of the book he lists which hikes are metro accessible. But when you go to the hike, no where does it actually say which metro to get off at. Also some of the "hikes" in DC are made up. I don't consider walking on city blocks an actual hike. Some color pictures would have been nice, but there are plenty of nice b&w pictures though.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for hikers, January 9, 2009

By	N. Zhang (Michigan) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: 60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Washington, DC: Including Suburban and Outlying Areas of Maryland and Virginia (2nd Edition) (60 Hikes - Menasha Ridge) (Paperback)

I got the book three months ago and have used it a lot since then. It provides pretty accurate information for my hiking trips in the area. I would recommend it to hiking enthusiasts.