Great encyclopedia, but unhelpful with finding great trails

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	• Canadian Rockies Trail Guide Brian Patton and Bart Robinson Summerthought Publishing, 2007 - 480 pages average customer review:based on 11 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Better for Banff and Jasper

This guide is better for Banff and Jasper trail info. The section on Yoho and Kootenay National parks is not as extensively covered as the other two parks. A large portion of the book is dedicated to coverage of Banff. There is no coverage of Glacier NP and Mt. Revelstoke NP which are also a part of the Canadian Rockies.

One criticism I have is that there is no easy way to determine whether the hike you are considering is easy, moderate, or strenous at a glance. Some of the trails covered may mention it but it is not consistently available, and you cannot find this info easily as you have to read the entire write up for it.

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Great encyclopedia, but unhelpful with finding great trails

This book is a great reference with 229 trails throughout the parks of the Canadian Rockies. If you've already selected a trail, it's great.

However, it's not great for planning an itinerary. I bought this book a couple of months in advance of a 10-day trip to the region, hoping to find two great 3-day hikes that we could plan the rest of our trip around. I soon discovered the Achilles' heel of this book--there are no ratings. In order to see how good a hike is, you have to read about it. In order to find the most desirable hikes in the book, I'd have to read more than 400 pages! I actually tried this, and started to read from the beginning, making notes about which hikes seemed particularly interesting--and then decided to check out the other books that are available. I immediately found "Don't Waste Your Time in the Canadian Rockies" by Kathy and Craig Copeland, which readily classifies trails into categories based on how scenic and pleasant they are. From that book, I rapidly found some great trails, and planned our itinerary.

Imagine a book filled with essays about hundreds of movies, but no ratings. It would be great for understanding more about a movie you had already chosen, but not very helpful for choosing a movie. So it is with this encyclopedic work--if you've already decided where you're hiking, or have narrowed it down to a few possibilities, this books is great. But there are much better choices if you're planning a wide-open itinerary and want to find the best places to go.

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very useful

The format of this book is great - you can find everything you need very easily. All the information about the trails is there with very fair descriptions. It is just what we needed.

Excellent guide, but heavy

This was an excellent guide for planning our itinerary. The 8th edition appears to be heavier than previous editions. I would recommend photocopying the pages you anticipate using instead of carrying the book on day hikes.

The best hiking book to the Canadian Rockies

I've been traveling to the Canadian Rockies to hike for 3 decades, and this book has always proved its worth. I used this newest edition on an extended trip last year and found that the trails I hiked were all accurately described. What I've always found most helpful in this book is the "log" of each trail, with detailed descriptions of junctions and landmarks that is seperate from the main trail information and makes it easy for me to know where along the trail I am. The book is divided into chapters by parks, with almost every trail in every park covered, from short walks to overnight trails. In closing, I highly recommend this book for anyone planning a trip to the region.

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With sales of over 230,000 copies, the Canadian Rockies Trail Guide is one of best-selling non fiction books in Canadian publishing history. Hikers affectionately refer to this hiking guidebook as the Bible.

When it was published in 1971, it was the first book with accurate distances and detailed descriptions to the trails of the Canadian Rockies.

The 8th edition covers more than 3,400 kilometres of trails in Banff, Jasper, Yoho, Kootenay and Waterton Lakes National Parks, plus the provincial parks of Mt. Assinboine, Mt. Robson, Akamina-Kishinena, Peter Lougheed, and Elk Lakes.

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