Top Trails: Yosemite: Must-Do Hikes for Everyone
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It’s simple to feel overwhelmed by the incredible number of choice destinations in Yosemite National Park–Yosemite Valley, Glacier Point, Tuolumne Meadows, Hetch Hetchy, and many additional famed locales. Top Trails Yosemite helps you sort through the options. It doesn’t clarify every possible hike in the Park, only the best. Jeffrey Schaffer has selected 46 of the “must do” hikes in the Park and vicinity. Whether you’re looking for a scenic stroll, a full-day adventure, or even a spectacular backpacking trip, you’ll find it here. And with at-a-glance information for each hike, visitors can determine which hikes are most suitable to their skills, schedules, and preferences. Books in the affordable and simple-to-use Top Trails series feature elevation profiles, detailed maps, driving directions, and “don’t get lost” trail milestones and innovative trail-feature charts.
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Fantastic trail book….accurate trail descriptions, as well as difficulty ratings. Well organized….trails grouped by areas of the park. Brilliant summaries in table format. Simple to compare different trails at a glance.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Mr. Schaffer has authored many hiking books, and also a very comprehensive book on Yosemite Geology. This is at least his second on hiking in Yosemite, and is my favorite. His is the voice of power. I have read many books on Yosemite, because of having authored a DVD Hiking Guide to Yosemite (Yosemite National Park (Jon’s Hiking Guides)). Mr. Schaffer’s books have influenced the DVD more than any others.
Up until the relief of this book, my favorite Yosemite hiking book was “A Natural History Guide to Yosemite and its Trails” also written by Mr. Schaffer. The potential drawback with “Natural History Guide”, though, is that it covers (factually, I judge) EVERY Yosemite trail. All this information could be more than a small overwhelming to a Yosemite “newbie” trying to find the best trails.
The answer is this book. Every one of the trails in this book is “World Class”. They are all brilliant choices. And they run the gamut from simple to very strenuous. Buy this book, you won’t be disappointed.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This is a fantastic guide to the most well loved hikes in Yosemite. His previous book that I like is Yosemite National Park, A Natural History Guide to Yosemite and It’s Trails. This book has less about the flora and fuana, but adds much needed trail maps and elevation diagrams. You won’t find anyone that knows Yosemite better than Mr. Schaffer.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Wilderness Press originally conceived of the ‘Top Trails’ series as a set of hiking guides to the best trails in an area. This purpose sets these volumes apart from predictable hiking guides which tend to fall into two categories: comprehensive guides to all trails in a region, or descriptions of fleeting day hiking opportunities in an area. The thought was to give visitors to a region quick access to the best hiking and to facilitate ease of use. Perhaps no area of California needs a ‘Top Trails’ guide as much as Yosemite and very few authors are as qualified to write one as Jeffrey Schaffer.
This book is divided into seven chapters: one for each region of the park. Each chapter lists 5 to 8 hikes ranging in distance from the 1/2 mile walk at Bridalveil Falls to a 33 mile excursion among the High Sierra Camps. Obviously, some of these trails are more suitable for backpacking, a feature that distinguishes this book from others in the ‘Top Trails’ series. All the fantastic hikes are included. Readers will find route descriptions for Half Dome, the Tuolomne Orchard of Sequoias (my favorite orchard in the park), Clouds Rest, Hetch Hetchy Resevoir, Glacier Point, and many more. In all, there are 45 trails and routes described here.
What makes this book so excellent are the standard features establish in additional ‘Top Trails’ guides and the practiced commentary of Schaffer. Each chapter starts with an overview of the region, a trails synopsis page listing distance, difficulty, and some highlights of the trails, followed by detailed trail descriptions and carefully drawn maps. Schaffer is one of the top cartographers in the west and his maps are second to none. But in addition to these standard features, Schaffer also offers an extended commentary on the geology, geography, and plant and animal communities establish in the park. His theory that Yosemite Valley’s rock walls were formed by faulting and vertical break planes, not only by glaciers, is clarified in these pages, along with the evidence for it, so that non-specialists can easily know what they observe as they hike. This sort of practiced commentary adds immeasurably to the joy of hiking. That is why I fervently recommend this book by Schaffer. It can enhance any trip to Yosemite.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5