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Is that unusual. But how about other English speakers around the world.Or another example:"Assuming that the Colorado River isn't rumbling along at 30,000 cfs or more, you can follow the left-hand (south) side of the river.".
Mr. I was disappointed by this book.
the Tonto Trail is the major east-west camino through the Grand Canyon." Now many, maybe even most, people who live in the parts of the US with a Spanish influence know that camino is Spanish for road. Annerino seems to be trying to impress us with his knowledge far too often and is long-winded most of the time.
I much prefer authors who try to inform instead of impress, especially in a book that is basically a how-to-hike-in-the-Grand-Canyon book.For example:". How much is 30,000 cfs.
I think the author meant that to say something like "if the river doesn't cover the trail, you can.", but I don't know for sure.I much prefer Hiking Grand Canyon National Park, 2nd (Regional Hiking Series) for planning a trip and Hiking the Grand Canyon's Geology (Hiking Geology) for understanding the geology.
This is the Grand Canyon trail guide I turn to most often. Hiking The Grand Canyon is an exhaustive guide.- Mark Kirby, National Geographic Adventure"Canyon Pioneers. "John Annerino's Hiking The Grand Canyon is an indispensable trail guide."- Jay Merritt, Conde Naste Traveler"Wherever you go in the canyon, you're likely to be treading in the footsteps of John Annerino. Anytime someone asks me a Grand Canyon question I can't answer off the top of my head, this is the book I pull from the shelf."- GrandCanyonHiker.com"Hiking the Grand Canyon is a great resource with mileage logs, trail descriptions, ratings, history, water caches, and just about everything else you need to know to overnight or spend a couple of weeks in the Canyon."- GrandCanyonTreks.org"A pocket-sized Sierra Club Totebook, Hiking the Grand Canyon describes the rigors, attractions and landmarks of more than 100 trails. Like Harvey Butchart, John Annerino has spent a fair bit of time exploring and writing about the Grand Canyon. Hiking The Grand Canyon is the AAA Triptik, a canyoneering primer."- Nancy Schute, Outside Magazine"Hiking the Grand Canyon is easily the most comprehensive guide to trails and routes in the Grand Canyon."- Bill Weir, Grand Canyon, Moon Handbooks"An excellent reference for Canyon trails is Hiking The Grand Canyon by John Annerino."- Linda Vachata, The Arizona Republic"Best information sources, " "Hiking The Grand Canyon, Revised and Expanded," by John Annerino, Sierra Club Books.- Brad Bollinger, The Press Democrat "Annerino's Hiking The Grand Canyon is a must have book for the Grand Canyon hiker. It's an excellent hiking primer and companion for the trail with mileage logs, trail descriptions, ratings, history, water caches and other essential information."- SideCanyon.com"Hiking the Grand Canyon is an invaluable resource."- HitTheTrail.com"Hiking the Grand Canyon, Sierra Club's best selling Totebook, has been featured in Backpacker, Frommer's Grand Canyon, The 50 Ultimate Hiking Adventures, U.S. News & World Report, and National Geographic Adventure."- Wesley Darden, Lost Horizons
It is a bunch of pretentious writing with details that will do no one any good. I bought this book expecting a well thought out and detailed description of the trails with smaller maps and recommendations on what best to see inside the canyon. I was wrong. If you want to know who climbed what peak inside the park and when this is your book. If you want to know about the trails look somewhere else.
And I can understand why. And maps are easy to get for the Grand Canyon.I have been more surprised that some object to Mr. On top of this, I found Annerino's review of history and other trail lore very entertaining. Given the peculiar fame of the Canyon, its allure for travellers from all over the world, including those who aren't really in shape, and the UN-reality of the Canyon upon first contemplation, I believe his warnings are in order. What you can't miss is his knowledge of this canyon.I found this book an excellent update, if only partial, of the Naturalist's Guide to Hiking the Grand Canyon by Stewart Aitchison. Annerino is a rough-and-ready writer, something of a non-fiction Jack Kerouac of the Southwest and the Borderlands.
His literary principle is enthusiasm for his subject. And when his subject is a complex but highly organized entity like the Grand Canyon system, the book winds up structured in a way some of his other books don't. This guide seems to have excited a lot of controversy. Another, more recent, is "Hiking the Grand Canyon's Geology", by Lon Abbott. This is valid, but the tendency of late seems to be for publishers to include only very sketchy maps, rather than copies of topos. Annerino's admonitions to the user to get in shape and keep in mind the peculiar hazards of the GC, comprising both desert and middle-latitude sky-island. But keep in mind, whatever you use, that access issues can change, so check with the National Park Service and other hikers.
(A new edition is due out of the Falcon guide; maybe the deficiency will be made up). John Annerino's guide to the Grand Canyon is just as individualistic as all his other books.Mr. And you have something to read when you're resting, without carrying MORE weighty books down and around and up.My advice to Canyon hikers is to consult ALL the guides you can get. He covers more trails than other, more current guides, such as the Falcon guide by Ron Adkinson, who doesn't write up the platform trails east of Grandview on the South Rim, the Beamer Trail, or Comanche Point. Not to mention areas further afield, such as the Arizona Strip.Some have criticised the lack of maps. John Annerino's guide is, in my view, an indispensable part of the small group you'll read again and again. I recommend the Internet Yahoo groups for the Grand Canyon, as well.
John Annerino gives his readers an abundance of information about the trails and geology of the Grand Canyon. My husband and I especially like the compact size of the book - great for tossing in a daypack while hiking the canyon.
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