This book details out many great trails in both parks. Most trails are some what long and require a whole day. I would not recommend it if you are looking for great 1-3 mile trails, as most of them are much longer.

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Not the best 31 Aug 2002

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This book was fairly useful for trail info, but rather confusingly put together. We spent a lot of time flicking backwards and forwards through maps and text trying to put together one or more trails and trying to figure out the bigger picture. Most of the trails are covered by the Parks own info, and other books had better general info and not to be missed views. Probably this book is best suited to those who are returning to the area, and are really looking for back country trails - not really short hikes though!

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50 of 53 people found the following review helpful

Great book for non-backpackers 18 Nov 1998

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pretty good, but... 17 July 2002

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The writing about the history, geology, and forests of the park is excellent. Although a short read, it covers the highlights well.

There are many hikes in the book that sound great. We tried to do a couple of the hikes out of the book, and we had some issues with the layout of the book and trail descriptions.

First of all, the maps of the trails are all at the back of the book. If you're on the trail looking at the directions in the description and want to check the map, you have to flip to the back to see the map, which is a little annoying.

One of the routes we tried to do (Log Meadow Loop) seemed to be well described, but the actual trail did not correspond to the description in the book. The map helped us to figure out how to take an alternate route that was pretty good and took us past most of the sights we would have seen.

Another hike (North Grove Loop) that was rated as easy (suitable for young children) turned out to be short but also a pretty steep climb, and I'm not sure that a 6 year old would have done well on this trail.

Despite these disappointments, the other hikes we took in the park were excellent and well described in the book.

I think the editor would have done better to put maps with the hikes instead of at the end.

It is possible that some of the problems we had in the first hike were due to changes in the trail that had been made since the book was published. We met another lost couple who couldn't find the trail with a different Sequoia book.

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Ok hikes, good history 28 Nov 2009

By Glenn Olshefsky - Published on Amazon.com

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I only visted Yosemite. I would only recommend this book if you plan on visiting both parks. The history section on Yosemity was very good, but the hiking trail inforamtion is better presented in other books.

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