Colorado Hiking

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Colorado's Fourteeners: From Hikes to Climbs

By Gerry Roach

Alpen
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Colorado's Fourteeners: From Hikes to Climbs, 2nd Editionby Gerry RoachColorado's Fourteeners: From Hikes to Climbs is a popular guide for Colorado's infamous peaks. It includes 250 routes for hiking and climbing on 55 peaks. You'll find detailed route information for most peaks, while other routes have less detail. Most routes are walk-ups, but many are scrambles or technical climbs. Some say it's one of the best they've used!

100 Classic Hikes Colorado

By Scott S. Warren

Mountaineers Books
Paperback (249 pages)

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The most popular guidebook to Colorado is now the most up-to-date guidebook to the state. Updated to current conditions, this spectacular third edition features 10 new hikes, including Bear Peak, Lake Isabelle, Mount Falcon, Devil's Head, Red Rock Canyon, North Cheyenne Cañon, French Pass, Tater Heap Loop, Mosca Pass, and No Name Lake. Beautiful color photographs accompany this collection of the absolute best hikes Colorado has to offer. With this guide's bounty of useful new informational features, hikers will be well equipped to choose a trip that suits their needs.

* Best reviewed hiking guidebook to Colorado * Includes 10 new hikes * Updated trail guide and contact information * Now includes topographic maps, elevation profiles, and a trails-at-a-glance chart

Colorado's Thirteeners: 13,800 To 13,999 Feet, from Hikes to Climbs

By Gerry Roach

Fulcrum Publishing
Paperback (367 pages)

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Colorado's Thirteeners is a comprehensive hiking and climbing guide to Colorado's peaks between 13,800 feet and 13,999 feet in elevation. Although climbing Colorado's 14,000-foot peaks has become increasingly popular in recent years for both state natives and visitors, many of the best climbs in the state are actually 13,000-foot peaks. Referring to these peaks as the "Centennial Thirteeners," authors Gerry and Jennifer Roach take you across Colorado to some of the most beautiful mountain the state has to offer. Peaks covered include Mount Meeker, which is visible from Denver, and more reclusive beauties such as Arrow, Vestal, and Jagged in the San Juan Range. Packed full of useful and user-friendly information on these and other peaks.

Best Summit Hikes in Colorado: An Opinionated Guide to 50+ Ascents of Classic and Little-known Peaks from 8,144 to 14,443 Feet

By James Dziezynski

Wilderness Press
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Author James Dziezynski has meticulously selected 80+ of the state's absolute best peak hikes in over 50 superlative hikes, and provides opinionated narrative that brings each route to life. Each summit is included because of a notable feature--whether it's the site of an abandoned mine or airplane wreckage, has thundering waterfalls or colorful floral meadows, is the best summit for spotting wildlife or bringing out-of-town friends, or is very accessible. Some peaks offer unique opportunities, such as a trailhead accessible only via a steam-powered railroad. Several summits are described in no other publication. Covering all the Colorado's major mountain ranges, including well-known Sangre De Cristo, Gore, Sawatch, Indian Peaks, and Maroon Bell wilderness areas to the lesser-known Grenadiers, Medicine Bow, and Outer San Juan peaks, this distinctive guide makes it easy to select exactly the right hike for the right day, the right mood, and the right companions.

Hiking Colorado's Weminuche and South San Juan Wilderness Areas, 2nd (Regional Hiking Series)

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Product Description: Fifty-seven comprehensive trail descriptions for Colorado's Weminuche and South San Juan Wilderness areas.

Day Hikes from the River Third Edition: 100 Hikes from Camps Along the Colorado River in Grand Canyon

By Tom Martin

Vishnu Temple Press
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In DAY HIKES FROM THE RIVER SECOND EDITION, author, hiker and river runner Tom Martin offers river runners through Grand Canyon National Park a new text on exploring Grand Canyon National Park from the Colorado River. There are 100 hikes in the book, up from 75 in the first edition. Besides a description of each hike, the text includes the best camps to stage the hike from. Information on winter and summer sun exposure, along with pertinent pull-in information is also provided where needed. Each hike description includes images from USGS topo maps with the hike clearly marked on the map.

This book is for the river runner who wants to increase their options for activities and gain a greater appreciation of what rafting in Grand Canyon has to offer, besides running great whitewater. This guide identifies many camps that are not listed in any other guidebook. This book is intended to be used by river runners to expand their knowledge base beyond the most heavily visited attraction sites on the river. While this book includes every heavily visited site on the River, it expands river runners options to include lots more wonderful places to visit in the most Grand of Canyons.

Canyon Hiking Guide to the Colorado Plateau: Non-Technical

By Michael R. Kelsey

Kelsey Publishing (Utah)
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This is a canyon hiking guide to the Colorado Plateau, which covers the southeastern half of Utah, the northern half of Arizona, the western 1/5 of Colordo, and a small part of NW New Mexico. This new 4th Edition has been undated significantly beyond the 3rd. The author went back to almost all canyons, or at least to the trailheads, to check out the mile post markers, etc. Also, about half a dozen less-interesting canyons or hikes from the 3rd Edition were eliminated; while about a dozen new & more challenging hikes have been added, plus another 32 pages. This 4th edition contains 320 pages and 191 fotographs, about 90 of which are new.

The new canyons are from scattered locations in southern Utah, primarily in Zion National Park, and the Escalante River, San Rafael Swell & Robbers Roost country, along with major updates on slot canyons on the Navajo Nation. Other big changes to this edition are the addition of about a dozen new technical slot canyons; that is, canyons where you need ropes and rappelling gear to get through. This adds another dimension to excitement and challenge, and opens many new hiking areas previously closed to many of us. All these technical canyons are now either bolted-up, or have slings or webbing around boulders, making them ready for rappelling.

The general direction for this book, is toward slot canyons, which everybody likes; but it retains easy & fun hikes to canyons with Anasazi ruins, another favorite. So if you're looking for petroglyphs or pictographs, and cliff dwellings or ruins, which some people try their best to hide, then this is your book. In the back of this book is a section listing the Best Hikes, including for the most part Slot Canyons, then best hikes to see Indian ruins, and Native American rock arts sites. Below is the Table of Contents.

Best Hikes With Children In Colorado (Best Hikes With Children)

By Maureen Keilty

Mountaineers Books
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Short hikes for short legs (and those still young at heart) in Colorado.

*86 hikes chosen for kid appeal *Trails accessible from Denver, Boulder, Colorado Springs, Vail, Aspen, and Crested Butte *New "Great Getaways" chart of Colorado's 18 best family fun destinations for hiking, camping, swimming, and more

Lichen Loop, Piedra River Trail, Baby Bathtubs Trail: these are just a few of the new hikes families will enjoy together in the completely updated edition of this popular guide. Hikes range from 1 to 8 miles in length, with optional turn around points for tired feet. They feature "environmental close-ups" to keep young hikers turned on to hiking-for example, you might search for polliwogs, discover wildflowers, or explore sand dunes. Also included is advice on hiking with children and tips for keeping it fun.