Andrew Breen suggested I give a shout out for Kathy and Craig, popular hiking guidebook authors from my part of the world.
BestHike links to many of their guidebooks, but I’ve not mentioned them lately.
Kathy and Craig Copeland are dedicated to each other, and to hiking, in that order. Their second date was a 32-km (20-mile) dayhike in Arizona. Since then they haven’t stopped for long.
They’ve trekked through much of the world’s vertical topography, including the Himalayas, Patagonian Andes, Pyrenees, Swiss and French Alps, Scottish Highlands, Dolomites, Sierra Nevada, North Cascades, Colorado Rockies, New Zealand, and canyons of the American Southwest. In 1989, they moved from the U.S. to Canada, so they could live near the Canadian Rockies—the range that inspired the first of their refreshingly unconventional guidebooks.
Here’s their list of current guidebooks:
Bear Safety
Bears Beware! (audio book)Hiking
Done in a Day: Banff
Done in a Day: Jasper
Done in a Day: Whistler
Don’t Waste Your Time in the Canadian Rockies
Where Locals Hike in the Canadian Rockies
Where Locals Hike in the West Kootenay
Hiking from Here to WOW: North Cascades
Done in a Day: Moab
Hiking from Here to WOW: Utah Canyon CountryCycling
Done in a Day: CalgaryVehicle Camping
Camp Free in B.C.
It was news to me that they now offer mini-ebooks. I could download these to my iTouch.
Don’t Waste Your Time in the Canadian Rockies
Where Locals Hike in the Canadian Rockies
Where Locals Hike in the West Kootenay
Hiking from here to WOW: North Cascades
Everything is linked from their attractive, fast and easy-to-navigate home page: HikingCamping.com
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