Hiking Yosemite National Park, 2nd

5 Responses to “Hiking Yosemite National Park, 2nd”

1. Mary E. Canini says:

   May 1, 2010 at 9:47 pm

   This book is just what you need when visiting Yosemite National Park if you do any hiking at all. It is thorough, well written, acurate, and simple to use.
   Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
2. G. Raven says:

   May 1, 2010 at 11:23 pm

   This book is very simple to navigate through & the leader gives fantastic topgraphical maps for each hike section. I’ve been using this book to plot my trip this year & it will let you know what to expect on the terrain mile by mile. Each trail has a difficulty rating, appx. travel time, seasons best to hike, GPS compatible, and some VERY basic info on contacting the park.

   I would recommend buying a perfect map to Yosemite which will help to plot your entire trip. I’ve recently bought National Geographic Destination Map & it will give you all the additional info you need. It gives much more info on campgrounds, how/where to buy permits for the backcountry, driving distances within the park & additional accomodations.
   Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
3. Brenda O'Dell says:

   May 2, 2010 at 12:04 am

   I have many books about hikes and trails in Yosemite but this is my favorite one. I have plotted several backpacking trips that were comfortably at my ability level based on this book. The trail descriptions are accurate with brief descriptions of the offtrail wildlife (If you are looking for a book that primarily gives excessive detail of the offtrail flora and fauna, you might find this book missing). In my opinion, the best feature of this book is the graph at the beginning of each hike that displays the elevation change (y-axis) throughout the hike, by mile (x-axis). This is an ideal way to see how strenuous the hike will really be.
   Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
4. Brent Cochran says:

   May 2, 2010 at 1:11 am

   I bought several yosemite books before my visit, but this is by far the best book I establish for the many hikes now that I am here. Perhaps there are better ones, but this one is reasonably excellent. One fantastic feature is that for most hikes it gives a 2D elevation change cutaway map for the entire route so that you can judge for youself the level of difficulty of the hike. Many books seem to disagree on this point. (You can see the huge spike at half dome for instance as a comparison.) The maps even have GPS coordinates. The maps do have rough topographical shading as well (though color would be better for this).
   Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
5. Anonymous says:

   May 2, 2010 at 1:30 am

   Fantastic book. Has maps and descriptions for a ton of hikes in Yosemite. Contains a chart of hikes by difficulty, scenery, etc. I’ll certainly go with FalconGuide for future hiking books.
   Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5