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Pacific Northwest Hiking : The Complete Guide to 1,000 of the Best Hikes in Washington and Oregon | 
 enlarge | Authors: Ron C. Judd, Dan A. Nelson
Publisher: Foghorn Pr
Category: Book
List Price: $20.95
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 1022997
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 432
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.5
ISBN: 0935701125
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.352025794
EAN: 9780935701128
ASIN: 0935701125
Publication Date: May 1997
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Product Description
Devoted campers, hikers, boaters, anglers, bikers, and golfers agree: Foghorn Outdoors guidebooks are essential for anyone who wants to spend less time planning and more time enjoying the outdoors. Each book is an excursion guide packed with the latest information on a variety of adventures near and far. Highlighting ideal hikes throughout Washington and Oregon, this fourth edition includes new hikes, added tips on gear, safety, low-impact hiking, and climate. It also contains new keynotes describing the hikes in each region, new "Best Of" lists highlighting the top hikes in various categories, and updated maps that are more detailed and easier to navigate. "This massive tome has over 1,000 descriptions of hikes for all levels of experience...." -- Travel Books Review
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 great directory of trails -- lacks depth but excels comprehensive coverage March 29, 2006
Readers who got lost need to remember roads and trails change faster than books can be printed. This is a wonderful directory of trails in Washington and Oregon -- much better than newest title from Foghorn which seems to replace this book (and which ignores Oregon completely).
 Good overview, predictable flaws April 28, 2004
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Never had any problems with directions myself. I have come across a few trails in this guide that are hard to get to -- sometimes impossible. Reason: There are *1100 trails* in it. This is both the strength and weakness of these all-in-one gides. Some trails are bound to be washed out or in ill repair at any given time. That's why all the Foghorn books suggest -- in fact, urge -- that you call the contact number before you go. Prudent advice. No guide can be updated every 15 minutes. Anyone who's not a complete wilderness neophyte knows that. For me, the most frustrating thing about the book is the map grid system, which doesn't make much sense. But overall, it's a good NW trail inventory with a good index. Great for quick reference -- and contact info to check on the trail. Anybody who needs a search party on a road should consider staying home.
 I got lost April 26, 2004
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
The previous review states that another recent review of the book by Reader From Lake Oswego must be a joke. However, I must agree with RLO. I have attempted 20 plus hikes using this book as a guide and found that several of the reviewed trails don't actually exist or that the driving directions are so incorrect that they are impossible to find. It is obvious that a number of the trails were not even visited by the authors - if they had been, they surely would not have made it into publication. For example, after spending hours searching for Bobsled Trail in the Umatilla National Forest I finally found an old weather beaten sign in the brush and the faint remains of a trail that had clearly not been used in a decade. Also following the book's "directions", I spent hours searching for Ninetop Trail in the Umatilla Heppner Ranger District. Not only did the trail not exist, but my SUV got stuck forcing me to walk seven miles to the nearest maintained road to obtain help. This could have been very dangerous situation for someone with a lack of supplies or outdoor knowledge. As a result, I have taken the previous reviewers advice and given up on this guidebook. If you decided to utilize the book, the pages may be used to build a fire (as Reader in Lake Oswego suggests). However I recommend saving them to spell out HELP on the ground to alert the rescue plane that will be searching for you.
Trusted source, and a bargain April 20, 2004
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Complete, accurate, comprehensive, and entertaining, to boot. Amazing inventory of trails for the money. Maps are only so-so, but functional. BTW: The review below is a joke: Most people would give up on an "unreliable" guidebook after about five hikes and skip the other 95.
 Do not rely on this as a guide. April 7, 2004
7 out of 11 found this review helpful
I have attempted to do more than 100 hikes in this book -- 90% in Oregon. At least 30% of the trails do not exist or the driving directions were so poor you could not find the trailhead -- and some you simply could not get to in a standard vehicle. The descriptions were not accurate. It seems like the author wrote by using maps, not by visiting the trails. I ended up using a few of the pages to start a fire on one of the hikes. That was the best use I got out of the guide.Some information was reasonable.
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