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A Ranger's Guide to Yellowstone Day Hikes Paperback – April 1, 2000
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This is my favorite book of day hikes. The authors, husband and wife rangers, don't just tell you where to go, they help you understand what you are seeing. ---from Lost in My Own Backyard: A Walk in Yellowstone National Park by Tim Cahill, founding editor of Outside magazine
After 25 years of directing tourists and explaining the wonders of Yellowstone National Park, Roger and Carol Shively Anderson have learned a few things about the world's first national park. Now they're sharing a big portion of that knowledge in a new guidebook, one that will help even seasoned park visitors enjoy and appreciate the place. The book is compact enough to slip inside a pocket of a daypack. Doing so could add a lot of entertainment and education to a day in the park. ---Scott McMillion, Bozeman Daily Chronicle
A Ranger's Guide to Yellowstone Day Hikes is a handy tool for those considering a walk in the woods. This guide describes each hike concisely, with information about length, difficulty, and what you'll be seeing. ---Star Tribune, Minneapolis-St. Paul
---Star Tribune, Minneapolis-St. Paul
After 25 years of directing tourists and explaining the wonders of Yellowstone National Park, Roger and Carol Shively Anderson have learned a few things about the world's first national park. Now they're sharing a big portion of that knowledge in a new guidebook, one that will help even seasoned park visitors enjoy and appreciate the place. The book is compact enough to slip inside a pocket of a daypack. Doing so could add a lot of entertainment and education to a day in the park. ---Scott McMillion, Bozeman Daily Chronicle
A Ranger's Guide to Yellowstone Day Hikes is a handy tool for those considering a walk in the woods. This guide describes each hike concisely, with information about length, difficulty, and what you'll be seeing. ---Star Tribune, Minneapolis-St. Paul
After 25 years of directing tourists and explaining the wonders of Yellowstone National Park, Roger and Carol Shively Anderson have learned a few things about the world's first national park. Now they're sharing a big portion of that knowledge in a new guidebook, one that will help even seasoned park visitors enjoy and appreciate the place. The book is compact enough to slip inside a pocket of a daypack. Doing so could add a lot of entertainment and education to a day in the park. ---Scott McMillion, Bozeman Daily Chronicle
A Ranger's Guide to Yellowstone Day Hikes is a handy tool for those considering a walk in the woods. This guide describes each hike concisely, with information about length, difficulty, and what you'll be seeing. ---Star Tribune, Minneapolis-St. Paul
---Star Tribune, Minneapolis-St. Paul
After 25 years of directing tourists and explaining the wonders of Yellowstone National Park, Roger and Carol Shively Anderson have learned a few things about the world's first national park. Now they're sharing a big portion of that knowledge in a new guidebook, one that will help even seasoned park visitors enjoy and appreciate the place. The book is compact enough to slip inside a pocket of a daypack. Doing so could add a lot of entertainment and education to a day in the park. ---Scott McMillion, Bozeman Daily Chronicle
A Ranger's Guide to Yellowstone Day Hikes is a handy tool for those considering a walk in the woods. This guide describes each hike concisely, with information about length, difficulty, and what you'll be seeing. ---Star Tribune, Minneapolis-St. Paul
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Using this guide is like having your own personal rangers along for a day in Yellowstone National Park. Between them, the husband-and-wife team have 25 years of ranger experience, and they KNOW Yellowstone. Here are 29 day hikes, in all parts of the park, with details about what you're seeing along the way. Each trail includes contoured sketch map.
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87 of 93 people found the following review helpful
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on November 30, 2003
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This guide was an invaluable resource for making the best of a week at Yellowstone. It was like carrying a park ranger in your pocket (just much less weight). First of all, the first few pages have trails listed by both (1) location in the park (Yellowstone is LARGE) and by difficulty. These lists include highlights of each trail. Approximately 30 trails are described in detail. For each trail, roundtrip distance, elevation change, difficulty level, and expected duration (hours) is listed along with a brief description, potential hazards, direction to the trailhead, and best times of year to hike. Subsequently, a detailed naturalist's description of the trail is provided. These notes are perfect for planning your hikes of using as a step-by-step guide for reading as you hike. The authors provide details about wildlife, flora & fauna, geology, history, and scenery along each trail. Each trails has a full-page easy-to-read contour map that provides the hiker with information on elevation changes and other useful details. As if the trail descriptions didn't already make you want to hike every trail, the guide provides a color photo from each trail making me wish I had time to hike the entire guide. The Anderson book also provides lists of what to bring on day hikes as well as tips for hiking in grizzly country. If a day hike for you is 15-20 miles or more, consider the Marschall book on Yellowstone trails (keep in mind, the first description of a trail often comes 5-10 miles into it). Trails you don't want to miss: Mt. Washburn, Storm Point, Avalanche Peak, Yellowstone Grand Canyon Rim (either or both), Pelican Creek, Trout Lake. We had the pleasure of meeting Ranger Carol Anderson (co-author) at the Lake Visitor Center - she spent an hour reviewing hikes with us. These folks know their stuff - I highly recommend this book for the average day hiker.
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46 of 48 people found the following review helpful
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VINE VOICE on October 26, 2004
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This guide includes 29 day hikes, well organized by park region. Its 28 pictures also provide a nice glimpse into some of the terrain you'll see on those hikes. It's small and easy to carry in your pack, but it covers a relatively small number of hikes in the park.
Each hike listing provides the usual driving and hiking directions found in guide books. Unlike the other guidebooks here, each hike also includes a topographical map of the hike. (The Falcon Guide includes elevation information on a separate chart but I still find the topo easier to use.) This makes the book very useful for armchair planners who haven't yet taken my advice to buy the Trails Illustrated map.
In addition, each hike includes a brief "special attention" section that is surprisingly helpful. For example, if a given trail is closed in early summer for bear management, you'll see that fact highlighted here instead of being hidden in the text.
The best part of the book is the "naturalist notes," however. The selling point of this book is that it is written by two rangers who are used to sharing their knowledge along a trail. That's exactly what they do here. As a result, it is easier to visualize the trail experience from this book than from any of the other guides I've seen.
Each hike listing provides the usual driving and hiking directions found in guide books. Unlike the other guidebooks here, each hike also includes a topographical map of the hike. (The Falcon Guide includes elevation information on a separate chart but I still find the topo easier to use.) This makes the book very useful for armchair planners who haven't yet taken my advice to buy the Trails Illustrated map.
In addition, each hike includes a brief "special attention" section that is surprisingly helpful. For example, if a given trail is closed in early summer for bear management, you'll see that fact highlighted here instead of being hidden in the text.
The best part of the book is the "naturalist notes," however. The selling point of this book is that it is written by two rangers who are used to sharing their knowledge along a trail. That's exactly what they do here. As a result, it is easier to visualize the trail experience from this book than from any of the other guides I've seen.
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35 of 36 people found the following review helpful
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Steve Horstmeyer
on October 27, 2007
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As a veteran of more than 35 years of wilderness backpacking in all kinds of weather and every season of the year my brother-in-law and I decided to shoot HD video in Yellowstone.
We did not want to do a wilderness trek on the first time out with all new video gear so decided day hikes were best. We did 20 of 29 of the hikes in "A Ranger's Guide to Yellowstone Day Hikes" in 7 days and covered 70 miles on foot.
This is a great book, one of the best I have seen in my years of hiking and backpacking. Each trail is unique and amazing. Some are tough but even the steepest trail was not so bad for a 54 year old with 35 pounds of video gear on his back. Trail ratings are true, so you will NOT be surprised by a gargantuan climb that is rated as moderate. Strenuous ratings wisely reflect both length and elevation change.
If you have room for only one day hike book in your travel gear this IS the book. If you are a seasoned backcountry expert or a beginner you will not be dissapointed.
We did not want to do a wilderness trek on the first time out with all new video gear so decided day hikes were best. We did 20 of 29 of the hikes in "A Ranger's Guide to Yellowstone Day Hikes" in 7 days and covered 70 miles on foot.
This is a great book, one of the best I have seen in my years of hiking and backpacking. Each trail is unique and amazing. Some are tough but even the steepest trail was not so bad for a 54 year old with 35 pounds of video gear on his back. Trail ratings are true, so you will NOT be surprised by a gargantuan climb that is rated as moderate. Strenuous ratings wisely reflect both length and elevation change.
If you have room for only one day hike book in your travel gear this IS the book. If you are a seasoned backcountry expert or a beginner you will not be dissapointed.
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Pat McMahon
on November 2, 2010
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I bought this book along with the Top Trails Yellowstone and Grand Tetons and would up using this one more often. I was frustrated by one hike, though, when the description of the trail was insufficient and I finally turned back. The author should use terms like "east" and "south" instead of "by the trees" because there were trees in every which direction! It seemed at times that he was so familiar with the trails that he assumed too much instead of looking at it from the eyes of someone new to the area. It was good for organization of the trails and for helping me to figure out which ones to consider and which to pass by based on the time of year or the weather conditions.
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Michael L. Shakespeare
VINE VOICE on March 17, 2008
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I tip my Gortex hat to Roger and Carol Shively Anderson for hiking every mile of the trails featured in their book, "A Rangers Guide to Yellowstone Day Hikes." Because they roamed up and down all over America's first national park, their personal experiences and expertise guarantee you will get an accurate description of every trail in their guide.
Their guide's helpful format features notable highlights, a trail route contour map, and parameters. For quick reference, all twenty-nine hikes are organized by: level of difficulty; distance; elevation change; duration; best time of year; trail head; hiking directions; special attention; and naturalist notes.
As you walk along, you may wonder, did famous men like John Muir or Jim Bridger follow this trail? Or what's the difference between granite and rhyolite? The Anderson's marvelous Naturalist Notes are included with many of the hikes -- spotlighting fascinating local history, personal observations, insider tips, and not to be missed opportunities to experience nature.
Are there more hikes near Mammoth Hot Springs or Old Faithful? You will have a general area map of Yellowstone National Park showing the location of each trail head.
Wondering which hikes are too hard? All the trails are broken down in groups of easy, moderate, and strenuous hikes, and which area of the park they are located in. Also listed are round trip mileage and a short highlight description of each. Most hikes average 2-3-4 miles roundtrip.
Hikers new to the area will find four pages of trail tips covering the topics of "What to Bring, Hiking In Bear Country, Wildlife Etiquette, and Lightning."
How do I know the hike is worth doing?Read more ›
Their guide's helpful format features notable highlights, a trail route contour map, and parameters. For quick reference, all twenty-nine hikes are organized by: level of difficulty; distance; elevation change; duration; best time of year; trail head; hiking directions; special attention; and naturalist notes.
As you walk along, you may wonder, did famous men like John Muir or Jim Bridger follow this trail? Or what's the difference between granite and rhyolite? The Anderson's marvelous Naturalist Notes are included with many of the hikes -- spotlighting fascinating local history, personal observations, insider tips, and not to be missed opportunities to experience nature.
Are there more hikes near Mammoth Hot Springs or Old Faithful? You will have a general area map of Yellowstone National Park showing the location of each trail head.
Wondering which hikes are too hard? All the trails are broken down in groups of easy, moderate, and strenuous hikes, and which area of the park they are located in. Also listed are round trip mileage and a short highlight description of each. Most hikes average 2-3-4 miles roundtrip.
Hikers new to the area will find four pages of trail tips covering the topics of "What to Bring, Hiking In Bear Country, Wildlife Etiquette, and Lightning."
How do I know the hike is worth doing?Read more ›
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