Adventure Guide to Mount Rainier: Hiking, Climbing and Skiing in Mt. Rainier National Park (Paperback)

by Jeffrey L. Smoot (Author)

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Product Description
Includes descriptions of tourist trails, nature trails, off-trail hiking, bike routes, minor peak scrambling, skiing and snowshoeing areas, and of course, summit routes.

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Includes descriptions of tourist trails, nature trails, off-trail hiking, bike routes, minor peak scrambling, skiing and snowshoeing areas, and of course, summit routes.

Product Details

• Paperback: 182 pages
• Publisher: Falcon; 1st edition (January 1, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0934641404
• ISBN-13: 978-0934641401
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,167,921 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Too little information, too many errors, September 28, 1999

By A Customer

I initially picked up this book to supplement our aging copy of "50 Hikes in Mount Rainier National Park". Accustomed to the detailed descriptions in "50 Hikes...", I found the hiking coverage was disappointingly thin. Of course, this is not surprising considering that the author tried to cram a driving, bicycling, hiking, climbing, AND skiing guide into only 172 pages. More unsettling were the errors I found. The mileages for a number of the hikes were at variance with the distances posted and published by the Park (and verified with my own feet!), sometimes by several miles. It makes me wonder what sort of errors may have crept into the climbing section, where mistakes can have far more serious consequences than tired feet.

The book does contain a bibilography, but no index (which is generally quite useful in a book filled with geographical place names). Interestingly, "50 Hikes..." is listed, but it's the 1975 copy. That's even older than mine!

Also, in my copy the second page of the Preface and the entire Appendix were missing.

If you want a good hiking guide to Mt. Rainier, try the current copy (4th ed.) of "50 Hikes in Mount Rainier National Park" by Spring and Manning.

0 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars very imformitive and very useful. top notch!, May 15, 1999

By A Customer

in the case of climbing you explain your self so it"S easy to understand. you can jump right in and do what you like to do best, experience mother nature at her best! tell me how does it make you fell*