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	• Boater's Guide to Lake Powell Michael R. Kelsey Brigham Distributing, 2008 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 15 reviews view larger image
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Helpful book

The emphasis of this book is hiking and is kind of like a boaters guide to hiking canyons. However, It still has lots of usefull information for boaters.

Even though the water levels were allmost 100ft below full on our last visit we still took the authors advice and hiked the narrow slotted canyon at the end of west canyon. This was a highlight of our one week trip and we would have never known about it without this book!

Lake powell is amazingly huge and beutiful. Having this book as a resource was well worth the money and added to the quality of our trip.

It would be nice if there were more books and guides on lake powell. But since this is the only one I found I can't complain much about it.

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Boater's Guide Lake Powell

Lots of information, pictures and maps. Print is so condensed, it makes it hard to read. Adding a map of Lake Powell with numbered reference squares to the detailed maps would make it easier to use. Not everyone knows all the names of the canyons..., but they know about where they are on the lake.

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Lots of material, but outdated.

This book is chock full of information on Lake Powell, and it's apparent the author spent a lot of time exploring the lake....many years ago.
My family and I just returned from a Lake Powell vacation in July 2007, and most of the areas the author talks about are no longer accessible from the lake, or are unrecognizable, due to the current lake level.
The pictures are obviously dated as evidenced by the outfits visible in the photos.
All in all I'm not sorry I bought the book, and it has tons of facts about the lake and surrounding area, it just needs to be updated.

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I once read that, "Indexes are among those necessary but never spectacular products of hard as well as skilled work that can sometimes make the difference between a book and good book."
That said, this is a book.
And it needs an index.
It also needs a clearer table of contents, an acceptance that the metric system will never gain popularity in America, fewer photos of the author in tiny shorts, and a complete redesign by someone who understands the value of a clear font and of blank white space between chapters.
These comments could be said of all of Michael Kelsey's guidebooks--all of which are full of facts, maps, and hikes that are indispensible to exploring the Colorado Plateau, and all of which are incredibly hard to find anything in.
I wish I could rate this higher, because these guides really have been helpful to me over the years--especially this one--but a guidebook should be easy to use, and its information should be easily accessible.
I'll keep my fingers crossed for the fifth edition.

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Great Resource

Good details for hiking from your boat and how to find the interesting historic and archaeologic teasures in an already amazing area.

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The original idea for this book was that of a hikingguilde only, since that's the author's specialty. But once on the lake for the first time, it was evident that more was needed. This book includes hiking, boating, camping, and history of the area.