| View Larger Image | Hiking Glacier and Waterton Lakes National Parks, 3rd: A Guide to More Than 60 of the Area's Greatest Hiking Adventures (Regional Hiking Series) | Paperbackby Erik Molvar (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Falcon | | Edition: | 3rdrd Edition | | Page Count: | 240 Pages | | Publication Date: | January 01, 2007 | | Sales Rank: | 242,756nd |
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
This comprehensive guide covers more than 850 miles of trails. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.0 based on 7 reviews)
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good guide to Glacierand Waterton trails by pither (Iowa City, Iowa USA)  4 Stars
July 28, 2009
I do a lot of hiking in the national parks and rely on Falcon Guides for good trail information. I have the first edition of the Glacier/Waterton guide so I thought I would get the latest edition for a recent trip. I still like this edition, but I agree with some other reviewers that there are some disappointments. Gone are the elevation profiles (which give you a snapshot of the gain and loss for the hike). As also mentioned, now several trails are combined on one map (GPS-compatible). That actually proves useful when several trails are part of a larger trail system (e.g., the Grinnell Complex), but this can be confusing for other trails (not to mention a little harder to find the maps for individual trails).
The first edition didn't have an index, so having one here is a plus (even if, as someone else mentioned, it's not as good as the second edition's). The third edition also has a nice trail comparison (though it should have distances) indicating which trails have waterfalls, lakes, meadows, etc. This edition also has several more pages of general information than the first edition, and descriptions of two additional trails. Although most of the trail descriptions seem to be the same as the first edition, the pictures accompanying them are new (though still not that great because they are in black and white).
On the whole, I recommend this book if you don't have an earlier edition. If you have the first or second edition you can probably get by with them if you also check other sources for updated park information (such as the free shuttle on the Going-to-the-Sun Road).
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not very helpful by Ye Wang (Florida)  3 Stars
June 18, 2009
I bought moon glacier and this book. I found that this book is useless because moon glacier covers a lot of good trails this book covers, and moon has other information. I think this book might be good for backcountry not for a day hike.
Simple trails and middle length trails are listed in moon glacier, and this book doesn't provide any other useful information about trails. The map is still not very clear. This book does list some very long trails, but usually you can search on internet to find this kind of information and even more specific.
I definitely would not recommend this book. Buy moon glacier instead!
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Great, if you like lung busting hikes by D. Pick (Smalltown, MI USA) 3 Stars
May 10, 2009
This is more a backpacking book than a hiking book. I have an earlier edition, and the majority of hikes are long (5+ miles one way) with very large elevation gains. I've been to Glacier a number of times, and there are many short, nice hikes. Also, the edition I have has very few hikes in the Goat Haunt area. The ones that are included are very long lung busters.
There is a lot of good information for a 20 something hiker/backpacker. Not so great for a 50+ hiker like myself (who still is willing to take on a decent backpack or long hike, but doesn't wish to die too early).
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Decent hiking guide by Fish Big (Colorado) 4 Stars
September 09, 2008
Went went on several hikes listed in the book in a recent trip to Glacier. It is pretty informative, but there were a couple of shortcomings. The description for the location of trailheads could have been a little better and the description of some of the hikes we went on were a little vague. Overall, still a good book and would recommend to anyone wanting to hike in Glacier.
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Disappointing! by J. L. Wendt (Fort Benton, Montana)  2 Stars
March 03, 2008
Hiking Glacier and Waterton Lakes National Parks, 3rd: A Guide to More Than 60 of the Area's Greatest Hiking Adventures (Regional Hiking Series)
We owned the "Revised" edition of this book, and misplaced or loaned it. When we started thinking about next year's hike, we searched high and low and realized we couldn't do it without this book! We went to the bookstore and purchased what we THOUGHT was the same book. WRONG! We purchased the 3RD EDITION, and it just was NOT the same! The index is about half as thorough. The real disappointment, though is that the elevation profile charts have been removed. They were invaluable in the revised edition. The 3rd edition has added some neat GPS compatible maps if that's important to you, but we'd gladly trade them for the Elevation profile charts.
We took the 3rd edition right back to the bookstore. Luckily, we were able to find a revised edition on Amazon Marketplace for half the price!
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