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Key Phrases: big stump, second lake, dragon pass, National Park, Complete Hiker's Guide, Bubbs Creek (more...)
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One of America's deepest gorges, Kings Canyon plunges more than 8000 feet and extends nearly eleven miles in length. Pristine alpine lakes reflect the surrounding silver-grey peaks, lupine and corn lilies flourish in meadows, and giant sequoias tower in world's largest stands of these ancient trees. This is the dramatic landscape of Kings Canyon National Park, southern neighbor to the more famous Yosemite.

Cool your feet in the turbulent clear waters of the South Fork Kings River, enjoy a picnic beside raucous Mist Falls, ramble on creekside trails through forests fragrant with cedar and pine, or regain your perspective from the park's highest points. Where the highway ends, the adventures begin…

Kings Canyon National Park: A Complete Hiker's Guide is the first comprehensive guide to the trails, campgrounds, outfitters, and facilities in the park and its environs. You'll find trips in neighboring Giant Sequoia National Monument, Sierra National Forest, and the Jennie Lakes and Monarch wilderness areas. Use this book to simplify your trip-planning--choose from 62 dayhikes, weekend overnights, or longer backpacks.

--Trail descriptions emphasize route difficulty, elevation gain and loss, good times to go, and unique features
--Routes match the needs of everyone, from strong hikers and adventurous backpackers to families on summer holiday, dayhikers and nature enthusiasts
--Topographic and overview maps help you anticipate the park's diverse geography, while numerous pictures let you sample the scenery
--Special sidebars inspire your curiosity about everything from beavers to woodpeckers and aspen to yarrow; learn about prehistoric Native sites and fire ecology; find out the difference between stalactites and stalagmites in nearby caves


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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Wilderness Press (March 1, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0899973353
  • ISBN-13: 978-0899973357
  • Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #140,511 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A tremendous resource for Sierra hikers, May 20, 2004
By Tom Hilton (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
The title exaggerates, but only slightly; this is certainly the *most* complete hikers' guide yet published on Kings Canyon National Park. It's also a fine model for hiking guides in general: sensibly organized, with plenty of information in an easy-to-access format. After a succinct background section, the book is divided into sections by trailhead area (Giant Forest, Cedar Grove, etc.). For each trailhead area, it gives information on all the nearby campgrounds--an extremely useful feature. Each hike description gives mileage, elevation gain/loss, directions to the trailhead, a succinct route description (some of which could be a little more detailed); so far, all standard. Where routes overlap, the overlapping section is covered in each route description; this may add to the overall weight of the thing (which is substantial--better to copy trail descriptions than to carry the whole book on an extended trip), but anyone who has ever leafed back and forth through Sierra South to construct a single route description will appreciate the redundancy. Each description also has a topo map of the route (detailed enough to give context, not always adequate for hiking purposes); icons in the margin identifying features such as campsites, views, and wildflowers; and brief descriptions of alternate or supplemental routes. These features add significantly to the overall utility of the guide. The hikes are nearly all on-trail, but the supplemental descriptions do cover many of the more popular cross-country and peakbagging routes.

The guide is marred by significant omissions. The Middle Fork Trail is mentioned only in passing; Tehipite Valley (one of the most extraordinary features in the park) and Blue Canyon are not mentioned at all. This is unfortunate not just because the area omitted is uniquely spectacular, or because it offers more solitude than you'll find on most other trails, but because the Middle Fork Trail ties the westside (Sierra National Forest) trail system into the Monarch Divide area trails and the John Muir Trail. Taking these trails out of consideration limits the (apparent) possibilities for longer trips through the park. (I could also complain about the omission of key cross-country routes--Grouse Lake to Glacier Valley, for example--but recognize that the guide is trail-focused, and does not set out to render comprehensive coverage of off-trail routes. And besides, even Secor omits some obvious routes.)

My only other complaint is that the index is skimpy; it appears to track places only where they are *featured*, not every time they are mentioned. (For example, Simpson Meadow is not in the index. While it is not described, it is mentioned as an alternate destination from the Monarch Divide trail complex, and it would be useful to be able to look up that mention.)

These quibbles aside, Wilderness Press and Mike White have done a fine job with this book, and it is a must-have book for the serious Sierra explorer.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Most Comprehensive Kings Canyon Hiking Guide, January 15, 2006
This book accompanies the author's "Sequoia National Park: A Complete Hiker's Guide". The two books are the most comprehensive guide to the trails in these two parks. Moreover, the book also has some excellent and useful tables in the appendix that detail the length of the trip, whether it is a loop vs. out and back, elevations... For those serious about this region, these are necessary. Two things could improve these books for future editions:

1) The maps are not very clearly printed. It is good that they are topographic USGS-style maps, however the contrast is poor and smudgy. Anyone doing these hikes ought to have a high quality fold-out map from Trails Illustrated or Tom Harrison anyway. Future editions should consider a higher-contrast less detailed map, or two-tone illustration as in the Lonely Planet guides.

2)Together, the two books are over 600 pages long. Clearly at this size they are less than suitable as backpack material anyway. The author may consider expanding them to include more cross-country routes for class I/II hikes, as the Roper/Secor/Arnot books have little competition on this angle.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Well organized guide, June 28, 2005
I really like the way this book is organized. Trails are grouped by trailhead, trailheads by general area. Each trail discussion has a quick summary of the basic information such as trail length, difficulty, whether it's a loop or linear trail. Handy also are the icons in the margin of the text that point you to specific features of the trail, such as vistas, campsites, and Sequoia groves. In the back of the book the many trails are listed in a chart that makes side-by-side comparisons easy. The only thing I wish this book had are elevation profiles for each trail. Then this would be a complete guide, indeed.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Similar to Sequoia NP book
I was well pleased with the trail and park information in both this and the King's Canyon Hikers Guides but I found a lot of duplication of information between the two... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Kenneth A. Spangler

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
This is one of five books I have about hiking Sequoia-Kings Canyon. All are good; this is by far the best. Read more
Published 14 months ago by James C. Sellers

5.0 out of 5 stars Offers tips on hiking trips of all lengths
Hikers and backpacks seeking to enjoy one of California's remoter and lesser-used parks will relish Mike White's Kings Canyon National Park: it offers tips on hiking trips of all... Read more
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