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The Best Walks series – now fully revised, updated and illustrated with colour photographs – explores the very best walking opportunities to be found in a region or national park. There is something for everyone in these walking guides. Each book suggests 36 good quality walks - where possible, circular to avoid difficulties with transport. Walks are clearly graded as easy, moderate, challenging or strenuous/difficult routes more suitable for the experienced hiker. A clear route description and exceptionally detailed map is included for each walk and there are practical suggestions on transport to and within the region plus a section with useful addresses and telephone numbers. All routes were recently checked or re-walked by the author.
Best Walks in North Wales covers Snowdonia National Park – one of Britain's most popular walking areas.
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Richard Sale is one of the world's leading Arctic scholars and explorers and a professional glaciologist. He has written widely on Polar history, exploration and wildlife and is the author of many books, including To the Ends of the Earth: The History of Polar Exploration which was the 2003 UK Outdoor Writers Guild Best Book on an Outdoor Theme, and The Gyrfalcon (Popatov and Sale), which was the US Wildlife Society's Book of the Year for 2006.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
There are plenty of good walks in here - we did Aberglaslyn Pass which is a treat, and going the route the author describes was best as it was steep to start with then a long gentle descent back to Beddgelert. People going the opposite way were puffed much of the route and didn't get the views we had.
But other walks are not always well described and the maps omit key information (for example, you can see Pen-y-Pas on the map but the words 'Pen-y-Pas' aren't there, pretty important if you want to do Snowden.) Also, whilst this is a revised edition some of the routes have changed as paths always do. The book also covers a huge area so walks are very spread out, not helpful unless you have a car and are happy to spend hours driving up valleys and over passes.
Browsing in the bookshops I found other books which had more walks over a smaller area with better maps and more up to date descriptions.
But other walks are not always well described and the maps omit key information (for example, you can see Pen-y-Pas on the map but the words 'Pen-y-Pas' aren't there, pretty important if you want to do Snowden.) Also, whilst this is a revised edition some of the routes have changed as paths always do. The book also covers a huge area so walks are very spread out, not helpful unless you have a car and are happy to spend hours driving up valleys and over passes.
Browsing in the bookshops I found other books which had more walks over a smaller area with better maps and more up to date descriptions.
This otherwise excellent book is let down badly by its maps. Most of the walks in the book don't even have an accompanying map, and those that do have a poorly-drawn sketch map that is sometimes almost impossible to interpret. You will need an Ordnance Survey map in addition to this book, and even then you should expect to spend many hours trying to work out the location of some of the walks.
Fine companion to North Wales, but can't be used in the field without separate topographical maps
15 Jun 2011
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Excellent as a companion to the region, and (curiously) better than the official Snowdonia National Park guide at giving a feeling for the place. For me it is a definite advantage to have the whole of North Wales covered in one book, and I would have been happy with even one or two more walks from the outer regions (the north-east especially). The photographs are highly atmospheric, and there is a generous selection. They really make the book treasurable.
The downside is in the route maps. They are certainly sub-standard, and can only serve as a guide to finding the route on a detailed hiking map (and only with the help of the written directions). But even with guides that give you extracts from Ordnance Survey or Harvey maps, it's still usually worth having the separate whole map so that you can see the wider context of a walk. Only, you'd have to buy a lot to match this book's coverage, so some concession should have been made to the walker who only wants to buy maps for their favourite places.
Also useful to me would have been extracts from wider scale maps that are good enough to show shaded relief, one for the whole of North Wales, and others (more detailed) for each region covered, so that you can see exactly how each walk is placed in its wider landscape. That should also help in planning a trip, making it easier to link up separate walks. Maybe a good road atlas is enough, but it's nice to have this sort of orientation in your guidebook, too.
The downside is in the route maps. They are certainly sub-standard, and can only serve as a guide to finding the route on a detailed hiking map (and only with the help of the written directions). But even with guides that give you extracts from Ordnance Survey or Harvey maps, it's still usually worth having the separate whole map so that you can see the wider context of a walk. Only, you'd have to buy a lot to match this book's coverage, so some concession should have been made to the walker who only wants to buy maps for their favourite places.
Also useful to me would have been extracts from wider scale maps that are good enough to show shaded relief, one for the whole of North Wales, and others (more detailed) for each region covered, so that you can see exactly how each walk is placed in its wider landscape. That should also help in planning a trip, making it easier to link up separate walks. Maybe a good road atlas is enough, but it's nice to have this sort of orientation in your guidebook, too.
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