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Hiking Alaska, 2nd: A Guide to Alaska's Greatest Hiking Adventures (State Hiking Series) | 
 enlarge | Author: Dean Littlepage
Publisher: Falcon
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 147199
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.8
ISBN: 0762722371
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.5109798
EAN: 9780762722372
ASIN: 0762722371
Publication Date: August 1, 2006
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Condition: Brand new
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Product Description
Fully updated and revised, this guide is the perfect introduction to hiking the great state of Alaska, with millions of acres of wilderness waiting to be explored. It features one hundred hikes in Alaska's national parks, wildlife refuges, national forests, wilderness areas, and state parks. Also included are hikes for all ages and abilities as well as maps for each hike and more than forty black and white photos.
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Great Hiking Book September 7, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
My boyfriend and I purchased this book before our trip to Alaska and it was great. It provided very specific directions to various hikes and accurate descriptions as to the conditions of each trail and their overall difficulty. We only did 3 hikes in this book, but plan on using it when we return to Alaska...hopefully in the next year! The waterproof cover is an added bonus.
Note: The book does NOT cover Denali, other than the few trails around the national park entrance.
Best Guide to Hikes Throughout Alaska February 12, 2007
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
This is a great book with a great mix of hikes throughout the state. There is good balance of short and long as well as easy and more challenging hikes. It does not try to be exhaustive in its coverage, but gives you enough ideas to occupy your time in any area of the state. It should be useful to either a once in a lifetime tourists or a resident who has an opportunity to hike the different regions of the state.
This was a great book in its first edition, this second edition takes a good design and makes it near perfect. The hike maps are superb, most hikes have elevation profiles, great reviews as well as all the important info you could need - distances, fees, maps, difficulty ratings...
I've read a lot of Alaska hiking books and this one stands out as a state-wide guide for finding hikes to take. It is not the strongest guide to equipment or technique. But if you want a book to give you great suggestions for hikes, pick this one up.
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