Hiking from Here to WOW: Utah Canyon Country: 90 Trails to the Wonder of Wildern

Description: Hiking from Here to WOW: Utah Canyon Country by Craig Copeland, Kathy Copeland Hiking from Here to WOW: Utah Canyon Country describes the 90 most compelling trails within our planets most bizarrely beautiful region. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description WOW. Think of it as the Wonder of Wilderness. Because thats your destination when Hiking from Here to WOW: Utah Canyon Country by Kathy and Craig Copeland is your guide. It describes the 90 most compelling trails within our planets most bizarrely beautiful region. The authors hiked more than 2,300 miles through Zion, Bryce, Escalante-Grand Staircase, Glen Canyon, Grand Gulch, Cedar Mesa, Canyonlands, Moab, Arches, Capitol Reef, and the San Rafael Swell. Then they winnowed all that exploration down to their favorite hikes: each selected for its power to intrigue, to stir, to dazzle, to mystify, to inspire, to thrill, and to incite awe. Their 480-page book describes precisely where to find the red rock cliffs, slick rock domes, soaring arches, and ancient ruins that make southern Utah unique in the world. It offers the boot-tested advice you need to create rewarding adventures. And it does so in refreshing style: unstintingly honest, entertainingly written, lavished with gorgeous photography, creatively designed. WOW Utah is full-color throughout, includes an easy-to-grok trail map for each day hike and backpack trip, and liberally dispenses the Copelands discerning counsel on how to make the most of every precious weekend or vacation. Their approach-separately presenting Opinion and Fact for each hike-is unconventional and extremely helpful. Their thoughtful, compelling descriptions interpret Utah canyon country in ways that are clever, poetic, penetrating, spiritual, startling, and sometimes just plain funny. So Hiking from Here to WOW: Utah Canyon Country provides hours of rapt reading even when youre not choosing a hike. This guide is is ideal for intermediate to advanced hikers keen to be on the trail for four to six hours a day. Author Biography Kathy and Craig are dedicated to each other and to hiking, in that order. Their second date was a 20-mile (32-km) dayhike in Arizona. Since then they havent stopped for long. Hiking and writing are their professions. Together, theyve hiked more than 40,000 miles through wildlands worldwide. Their total book sales exceed 205,000 copies. Theyve trekked through much of the worlds vertical topography, including the Nepalese Himalaya, Patagonian Andes, and New Zealand Alps. In Europe, theyve hiked the Scottish Highlands; Spains Costa Blanca and Els Ports mountains; Mallorcas Serra de Tramuntana; the Alpes Maritimes; the Austrian, French, Swiss, and Italian Alps; the French and Spanish Pyrenees; and Italys Monti Liguri and Dolomiti. In North America, theyve explored the B.C. Coast, Selkirk and Purcell ranges, Montanas Beartooth Wilderness, Wyomings Grand Tetons, the Colorado Rockies, the California Sierra, and Arizonas Superstition Wilderness and Grand Canyon. Visit Kathy and Craigs website: hikingcamping.com. Youll find their articles are often mini-guidebooks, and their photo gallery is constantly growing. In 1989, they moved from the U.S. to Canada, so they could live near the range that inspired the refreshingly unconventional book: "Dont Waste Your Time in the Canadian Rockies, The Opinionated Hiking Guide." Its popularity encouraged them to abandon their careers-Kathy as an ESL teacher, Craig as an ad agency creative director-and start their own guidebook publishing company: hikingcamping.com. They now migrate annually to southern Utah, where they wrote "Hiking From Here To Wow: Utah Canyon Country." Though the distances they hike are epic, Kathy and Craig agree that hiking, no matter how far, is the easiest of the many tasks necessary to create a guidebook. What they find most challenging is the need to spend twice as much time at their computers-writing, organizing, editing, checking facts-as they do on the trail. The result is worth it. Kathy and Craigs colorful writing, opinionated commentary, and enthusiasm for the joys of hiking make their guidebooks uniquely helpful and compelling. Table of Contents Trip Locator MapIntroduction: From Here to WowThe HikesZion National ParkParia Canyon – Vermilion Cliffs WildernessKanabBryce Canyon National ParkHole-in-the-Rock Road /Grand Staircase – Escalante NMCapitol Reef National ParkSan Rafael SwellArches National ParkMoab Canyonlands National ParkGlen Canyon National Recreation AreaCedar MesaComb Ridge CanyonsInformation SourcesIndexThe Authors Long Description WOW. Think of it as the Wonder of Wilderness. Because thats your destination when Hiking from Here to WOW: Utah Canyon Country by Kathy and Craig Copeland is your guide. It describes the 90 most compelling trails within our planets most bizarrely beautiful region. The authors hiked more than 2,300 miles through Zion, Bryce, Escalante-Grand Staircase, Glen Canyon, Grand Gulch, Cedar Mesa, Canyonlands, Moab, Arches, Capitol Reef, and the San Rafael Swell. Then they winnowed all that exploration down to their favorite hikes: each selected for its power to intrigue, to stir, to dazzle, to mystify, to inspire, to thrill, and to incite awe. Their 480-page book describes precisely where to find the red rock cliffs, slick rock domes, soaring arches, and ancient ruins that make southern Utah unique in the world. It offers the boot-tested advice you need to create rewarding adventures. And it does so in refreshing style: unstintingly honest, entertainingly written, lavished with gorgeous photography, creatively designed. WOW Utah is full-color throughout, includes an easy-to-grok trail map for each day hike and backpack trip, and liberally dispenses the Copelands discerning counsel on how to make the most of every precious weekend or vacation. Their approach--separately presenting Opinion and Fact for each hike--is unconventional and extremely helpful. Their thoughtful, compelling descriptions interpret Utah canyon country in ways that are clever, poetic, penetrating, spiritual, startling, and sometimes just plain funny. So Hiking from Here to WOW: Utah Canyon Country provides hours of rapt reading even when youre not choosing a hike. This guide is is ideal for intermediate to advanced hikers keen to be on the trail for four to six hours a day. Excerpt from Book Tri p 22 FOX CANYON & TWENTYFIVE MILE WASH Hole-in-the-Rock Road Glen Canyon National Recreation Area round trip 15.2 mi (24.5 km) elevation change 1030-ft (314-m) loss and gain key elevations: trailhead 5490 ft (1673 m), confluence of Fox Canyon and Twentyfive Mile Wash 4580 ft (1396 m) Escalante River 4460 ft (1360 m) hiking time: 2 to 3 days difficulty: challenging maps: Trails Illustrated Canyons of the Escalante, USGS Egypt Its a long trudge to the Escalante River via Twentyfive Mile Wash, and its a rather mundane boulevard most of the way. But you can shorten the round trip by 14 mi (22.5 km) and significantly increase the reward-to-effort ratio by dropping into Twentyfives impressive lower reaches via Fox Canyon. To do so you must navigate cross-country to Fox Canyon, then enter it by way of a short but steep friction-walk. If you have any routefinding experience, the 1 mi (1.6 km) across trail-less terrain will pose no difficulty as long as you carry a compass in one hand and the 1:24 000 topo map in the other. As for dropping into Fox, the slickrock-ramp entry appears more committing than it actually is. A nervous novice might manage it on the seat of his hopefully double-bottomed shorts if not on the soles of his boots. The entire trip is scenic. From the trailhead, youll hike on rolling sandstone across the outer edge of Early Weed Bench, with sweeping views of canyon country. Fox Canyon is short but intriguingly narrow. And while "wash" aptly describes most of Twentyfive Mile, the stretch youll be hiking is a full-blown canyon. The bulbous sandstone walls tower above and occasionally overhang the meandering trickle youll follow to the Mother Escalante. Beyond the confluence of Fox Canyon and Twentyfive Mile Wash, navigation is simple: just head downstream, without being diverted up the four primary tributary drainages. The hiking, however, might not be a total cakewalk. In the past, the riparian vegetation has been thick and ornery Description for Sales People Updated hike descriptions and trail information Stunning new photographs highlight the unique scenery Full-color guidebooks displays the beauty of Utahs canyon country Details ISBN0899978509 Publisher Wilderness Press Edition 2nd ISBN-10 0899978509 ISBN-13 9780899978505 Format Paperback Imprint Wilderness Press Country of Publication United States Pages 448 Place of Publication Berkeley Replaces 9780899974521 Year 2018 Author Kathy Copeland DEWEY 796.5109792 Short Title Hiking from Here to Wow Language English Publication Date 2018-03-08 NZ Release Date 2018-03-08 US Release Date 2018-03-08 UK Release Date 2018-03-08 Illustrations Color photos and maps throughout Edition Description 2nd Revised edition Subtitle 90 Trails to the Wonder of Wilderness Audience General AU Release Date 2018-02-19 Alternative 9780899974521 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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