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| | Description | BACKPACKER TREKKING WASHINGTON
CLIMBING
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Charlie & Diane Winger | | Paperback: | 302 pages | | Publisher: | Colorado Mountain Club Press | | Publication Date: | 2002-03 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0967146631 | | Package Length: | 8.3 inches | | Package Width: | 5.5 inches | | Package Height: | 0.8 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.3 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 17 reviews |
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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Highpoint Adventures May 25, 2007
This book and the references it makes, particularly to websites, will give you accurate and fun information about getting to the highest point in each of the fifty states. There is useful general information about hking, and each of fifty descriptions is excellent. If you buy the book and join the club, you will have something to do on vacations for years to come.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
A guide to my favorite hobby Dec 21, 2006
Highpointing is a great way to see all 50 states and get a little exercise (or a LOT of exercise in some cases), and this book is the perfect guide. I have climbed 22 Highpoints and own 4 Highpointing books. I would definitely consider this my favorite of the 4. I would still recommend owning more than one Highpointing book, but like I said, this is definitely my favorite. This one also seems to be the quickest revised and the best kept up to date. Though I suppose you can always get updates on highpointing very easily off of www.highpointers.org.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
A Great Gift Aug 20, 2006
This is the second copy I have purchased as a gift. Also I have one that was a gift to me. The book is outstanding for the hiker/traveler. My copy is dog-eared from all the attention it gets. It is well organized and accurate in its descriptions and directions.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Highpointing: Adventure and Great Family Fun Jan 25, 2005
After thru-hiking the AT, my wife decided she wanted to go to the highest point in at least the continimerous 48 states (plus Hawaii as a reward). I bought a membership to the Highpointers Club and a copy of this book. We've used it to summit 13 states so far including easy drive-ups like Florida and Arkansas as well as challenges like Colorado (second highest point in the lower-48) and New Mexico.
While the book isn't a detailed hiking guide, it does contain information that is absolutely necessary to reach certain highpoints, especially those on private property. Additionally, the book contains a list of local highlights and interesting sites to see.
P.S. Our favorite highpoint, so far, is Kansas' Mount Sunflower!
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
This one has it all Sep 04, 2004
Excellent guidebook. Provides everything you need in a few concise pages for each "mountain": Location, directions, summary statistics and comparisons, maps, alternate routes, nearby attractions, and human interest. The hiking distance and vertical elevation charts for each route are instantly helpful. The absence of errors is truly amazing for a book category that is continuously travel directions, distances, and routing. This book is so reliable that I have occasionally gone into the backcountry without procuring the mandatory real map. I own many dozens of mountain guidebooks--this may be the best for quick lookup of needed information! It is even a very convenient page size for fitting into a day pack. The authors have made these journeys a much simpler task compared to the days of the Frank Ashley book.
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