Here’s your chance to get a Christmas gift for a friend or loved one – or for yourself – for free. These four books are from Wilderness Press, my publisher. Send me an email with your name and address, and tell me why you want the book – and who it is for. I’ll see how many requests I get and make a decision by Monday night, November 22. Consider these as early Christmas gifts to my readers. Here are the four books.
Hiking from Here to WOW: Utah Canyon Country
This book in the full-color WOW series covers 90 trails in southern Utah’s spectacular canyon country that epitomize the “wonder of wilderness.” The authors hiked over 1600 miles through Zion, Bryce, Escalante-Grand Staircase, Glen Canyon, Grand Gulch, Cedar Mesa, Canyonlands, Moab, Arches, Capitol Reef, and the San Rafael Swell in order to compile their list of 90 WOW hikes. Coverage ranges from short dayhikes to multi-day backpacking adventures. The book describes precisely where to find the redrock cliffs, slick-rock domes, soaring arches, and ancient ruins that make southern Utah unique. And it does so in a refreshing style-honest, literate, entertaining, and inspiring.
Value: $29.95, Pages: 446
Hiking from Here to WOW: North Cascades
Hiking from Here to WOW: North Cascades will guide hikers to the most compelling destinations in Washington’s Glacier Peak Wilderness and North Cascades National Park. This first book in the new full-color WOW series covers 50 trails that epitomize the “wonder of wilderness.” Each superlative hike was selected for its power to incite awe. The trips lead to cathedral forests, psychedelic meadows, spiky summits, colossal glaciers, and more. Coverage ranges from short, tremendous dayhikes to multi-day backpacking adventures. Dayhikers and backpackers alike will find that the discerning advice in this guidebook helps make the most of their precious weekends and vacations.
Value: $21.95, Pages: 262
Backpacking Arizona
The world-famous Grand Canyon is only one of Arizona’s spectacular natural features. Arizona encompasses over 90 wilderness areas, more than 15 national parks and monuments, and the largest national forest in the country. Expansive mesas, high peaks, and snaking canyons create a dynamic landscape and reflect a rich geologic and human history. Backpacking Arizona is the only guide devoted to overnight trips in the state. You’ll discover the maze of side canyons and hidden grottos in the Grand Canyon’s untrammeled backcountry, historic pioneer trails on the Mogollon Rim, the little-traveled Blue Range, and the legendary Superstition Mountains in the Sonoran Desert.
Value: $17.95, Pages: 239
Top Trails Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks, 2ed
With trips from Mammoth Hot Springs to Old Faithful, from the Absarokas to the Gallatin Range, and from Jackson Hole to the Teton Crest Trail, Top Trails Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks has all visitors need to enjoy the ultimate in natural and geothermal wonders-tranquil backcountry lakes, panoramic summits, glacier-carved canyons, steaming geyser basins, vast meadows teeming with wildlife, and much more. Award-winning author Andrew Dean Nystrom has selected the 45 best trips in the area, ranging in length from a half-mile stroll by some of the park’s most colorful hot springs to a 30-mile trek past intriguing thermal features and wildlife galore. The new edition features expanded coverage of the new Laurance S. Rockefeller Preserve addition to Grand Teton National Park, family and kid-friendly hikes, legally soakable hot springs (with ratings) in both parks, moonlight hiking, and how to secure hard-to-get in-park lodging and campsite reservations.
Value: $18.95, Pages: 361
