50 Hikes in Alaska's Kenai Peninsula (2nd Edition) (Explorer's 50 Hikes)
50 Hikes in Alaska's Kenai Peninsula (2nd Edition) (Explorer's 50 Hikes)

Author: Taz Tally

Publisher: The Countryman Press

Published: 2016-07-26

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 1581575181

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A hiking guide to one of Alaska's most stunning outdoor getaways Alaska is vast, wild, and stunningly beautiful—and notoriously difficult to get around. The Kenai Peninsula, with its proximity to Anchorage, is the gateway to the great outdoors of Alaska for vast numbers of visitors and locals alike. The Kenai offers coastal, forest, subalpine, tundra, and even glacial hiking opportunities accessible to most. The hikes in this book range from an easy half-mile walk through a boggy lowland meadow to more challenging multi-day hikes through mountainous terrain. As with all of the 50 Hikes series, this volume provides the kind of narrative descriptions that allow you to choose which hikes to actually take and equips you with critically acclaimed maps that help you navigate to and from where you are hiking.

50 Hikes in the Sierra Nevada (2nd Edition) (Explorer's 50 Hikes)
50 Hikes in the Sierra Nevada (2nd Edition) (Explorer's 50 Hikes)

Author: Julie Smith

Publisher: The Countryman Press

Published: 2019-04-09

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 1682682943

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An updated guide to one of the most popular hiking regions in the country The Sierra Nevada is renowned for its hiking, and its surprising diversity in landscape and terrain is guaranteed to suit outdoor enthusiasts of all interest and skill levels. The longest single range in the contiguous United States, these mountains overlook perpetually changing nature and form one of the most sublime landscapes in the world. The guide provides comprehensive, step- by- step directions for each hike. In addition, each chapter includes a map, full color photography, directions to the trailhead, distance and elevation data, hike difficulty rating, and pertinent contact information, all fully updated. Hikes include: • Calaveras Big Trees State Park • Rainbow Falls • Panorama Trail • Redwood Mountain Grove

50 Hikes on Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau (Second Edition) (Explorer's 50 Hikes)
50 Hikes on Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau (Second Edition) (Explorer's 50 Hikes)

Author: Johnny Molloy

Publisher: The Countryman Press

Published: 2019-11-12

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 1682683958

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Walks, hikes, and backpacking trips from the Tennessee River Gorge to the Big South Fork Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau, a wide tableland cut with a dizzying array of deep gorges, is a geological wonderland. It is a place to behold and savor. This updated second edition covers hikes from the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area near Kentucky to the fascinating Walls of Jericho astride the Alabama state line; from the thousand-foot gorge cut by the mighty Tennessee River down Chattanooga way to the watery beauty of Virgin Falls by Sparta. Specific emphasis is placed on the most scenic destinations and the unique places that make the plateau so special, places like the Great Stone Door, with its sandstone formations and vertical rock walls, and Cumberland Mountain State Park, with its ancient trees and evidence of ancient human history. Also included are comprehensive maps for each hike, scenic photos, and a hikes-at-a-glance table that makes choosing your desired hike a breeze.

50 Hikes in Alaska's Kenai Peninsula
50 Hikes in Alaska's Kenai Peninsula

Author: Taz Tally

Publisher: Countryman Press

Published: 2008-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780881507553

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A50 Hikesguide to one of Alaska's most stunning outdoor getaways. The Kenai Peninsula, with its proximity to Anchorage, is unarguably the gateway to the great outdoors of Alaska for vast numbers of visitors and locals alike. The50 Hikesseries, with its strength in providing the kind of narrative descriptions that allow you to choose which hikes to actually take and the critically acclaimed maps that make sure you make it back from where you were hiking, will provide any walker or hiker with the right tools for visiting one of the most beautiful regions on the planet. 51 maps, 50 black & white photographs, index.

Hiking Alaska's Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve
Hiking Alaska's Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve

Author: Greg Fensterman

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2008-05-01

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1461746353

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The first book of its kind for the largest national park in the United States. Six times the size of Yellowstone National Park, Wrangell-St. Elias welcomes 40,000 visitors every year, and each of them will maximize the visit with this all-new guidebook. Detailed information is provided for navigating fifty of the best hiking routes through 13.2 million acres of Alaskan wilderness. The book is organized by type of trip: day hikes, frontcountry treks (starting from road-accessible trailheads), and remote backcountry treks (accessible via fly-in). There are detailed maps and black and white photographs as well as sidebars and narratives about river crossings, navigation, bear safety, wildlife, seasonal changes, and finding the routes.

Backpacker
Backpacker

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1994-02

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13:

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Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.

Day Hiking Southcentral Alaska
Day Hiking Southcentral Alaska

Author: Lisa Maloney

Publisher: Mountaineers Books

Published: 2019-02-25

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1680510673

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Hikes within driving distance of Anchorage and its environs 100 day hikes, from iconic to beginner to lung-burner! Day Hiking: Southcentral Alaska features 100 day hikes in the populous region around the Greater Anchorage area. Starting with the immense and accessible Chugach State Park, the guide includes hikes north of the city to include the Matanuska–Susitna Valley and Hatcher Pass areas, and also trails near Eagle River, Palmer, and Wasilla. There are hikes along Cook Inlet and Turnagain Arm, including near Girdwood, Portage Glacier, and Whittier, as well as all of the Kenai Peninsula--Chugach National Forest, Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, Kachemak Bay State Park and State Wilderness Park, Soldotna, Homer, and more. "Hikes at a Glance" highlights features of each hike Difficulty rating, elevation gain, distance, and best season for each trail Detailed driving directions to trailheads Useful trail icons for dog-friendliness, glaciers, lakes, and more Convenient, compact, and packable size Full-color photos throughout

Dictionary of Alaska Place Names
Dictionary of Alaska Place Names

Author: Donald J. Orth

Publisher:

Published: 1967

Total Pages: 1120

ISBN-13:

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Each entry conforms to principles of U.S. Board on Geographic Names and lists location, brief history and meaning of name.