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Boater's Guide to Lake Powell: Featuring Hiking, Camping, Geology, History and Archaeology (4th Edition)

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Great Resource
Full of great information that's impossible to access
Helpful book
Feet to meters
Warning- Lake is now a different place

Boater's Guide to Lake Powell: Featuring Hiking, Camping, Geology, History and Archaeology (4th Edition)
Michael R. Kelsey
Manufacturer: Kelsey Publishing (Utah)
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0944510191

Book Description

This book is a guide to Lake Powell, which has formed behind the Glen Canyon Dam in the middle part of the Colorado River. The dam is located in extreme northern Arizona, near the town of Page, but 99.9% of Lake Powell is in Utah. It has a shoreline of 2900 kms or 1800 miles.

The emphasis of this book is on hiking with boater access. Also covered are potential campsites, geology, history of the early pioneers and cattlemen; the ones who came to build trails, look for minerals, and explore. Excerpts from the John W. Powell and the Dominquez & Escalante expedition diaries have been added in the appropriate locations, plus archeological sites and their history are documented using studies from the Universities of Utah and Northern Arizona from the 1950's, before the lake covered many of the sites. There are 43 mapped areas, which show inlets and the canyons above, and hiking and camping information. Shown on these maps are Anasazi ruins, petroglyphs, and other information for mostly day-hiking. All sections of the lake are included, from Cataract Canyon in the upper end, to the San Juan Arm; plus the Escalante River drainage and its many great hiking canyons, and Rainbow Bridge, the one of the largest in the world. There are also lots of great slot canyons with boater access only; these include West Canyon, maybe the best all-around canyon hike on the Colorado Plateau. This 2nd Updated (3rd) Edition has 251 fotographs, including 10 color fotos on the front & back covers.

Customer Reviews:

Great Resource.......2007-01-12

Good details for hiking from your boat and how to find the interesting historic and archaeologic teasures in an already amazing area.

Full of great information that's impossible to access.......2005-09-30

I once read that, "Indexes are among those necessary but never spectacular products of hard as well as skilled work that can sometimes make the difference between a book and good book."
That said, this is a book.
And it needs an index.
It also needs a clearer table of contents, an acceptance that the metric system will never gain popularity in America, fewer photos of the author in tiny shorts, and a complete redesign by someone who understands the value of a clear font and of blank white space between chapters.
These comments could be said of all of Michael Kelsey's guidebooks--all of which are full of facts, maps, and hikes that are indispensible to exploring the Colorado Plateau, and all of which are incredibly hard to find anything in.
I wish I could rate this higher, because these guides really have been helpful to me over the years--especially this one--but a guidebook should be easy to use, and its information should be easily accessible.
I'll keep my fingers crossed for the fifth edition.

Helpful book.......2005-09-09

The emphasis of this book is hiking and is kind of like a boaters guide to hiking canyons. However, It still has lots of usefull information for boaters.

Even though the water levels were allmost 100ft below full on our last visit we still took the authors advice and hiked the narrow slotted canyon at the end of west canyon. This was a highlight of our one week trip and we would have never known about it without this book!

Lake powell is amazingly huge and beutiful. Having this book as a resource was well worth the money and added to the quality of our trip.

It would be nice if there were more books and guides on lake powell. But since this is the only one I found I can't complain much about it.

Feet to meters.......2005-02-25

Very informative book however the author (who was born and raised in the USA) has all measurements in meters. He must just be laughing at us complaining about it. I would not purchase the book because if you have hiked for decades and know how long a mile is and know how much ground in miles you can cover in a day and how much water you need for a lets say a 9 mile hike you will be totally frustrated by this book and if your wrong in your 7th grade conversion computation you could be for example out of water before you reach your destination. So you see it's not just annoying it could be dangerous.

Warning- Lake is now a different place.......2004-08-31

The book overall, is ok, and provides some good general information. However, in no fault to the author, the lake levels have dropped about 100ft since the book was written. Where there may have been a beach and a trail 4 years ago, you will now find a 50ft. cliff. Regardless lake powell is still an awesome place, check it out.

Southwest Camping Destinations: A Guide to Great RV and Car Camping Destinations in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah (Camping Destinations series)

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Great guide
Excellant RV travel guide!
Bare minimum of information
Outstanding! The best Southwest RV Guide.

Southwest Camping Destinations: A Guide to Great RV and Car Camping Destinations in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah (Camping Destinations series)
Mike Church , and Terri Church
Manufacturer: Rolling Homes Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0974947148

Book Description

Bryce Canyon, Carlsbad Caverns, the Grand Canyon, and Mesa Verde are among the 100 destinations covered in this book, which combines the functions of a sightseeing guide and a camp directory. Maps are provided for each destination along with descriptions of tourist attractions and listings for more than 500 campgrounds. Native American sites and desert habitats are also of interest in this region, making it a great vacation destination for families with children—and perfect for those people who want to escape to a warm climate during the winter.

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Southwest camping review.......2007-05-15

Guess I should have read the title better. Book was written to follow their destinations. If you have your own itinerary book was hard to use, if not impossible. It listed campground location in longitude and latitude, good if your using a GPS. Not so good if you weren't. It did not have a complete list of campgrounds for the areas.
Just wasn't what I needed.

Great guide.......2007-05-07

This book has been very helpful in planning our upcoming trip. Helped make decisions and find alternatives.

Excellant RV travel guide!.......2007-02-11

This book is intended to be a travel and adventure guide and succeeds extraordinarily well. Don't expect it to replace the Woodall's or Trailer Life catalogs and their rating systems. You want this book to help you plan RV vacations or weekends filled with adventure, historic way points and scenic sites. Additionally, it includes extensive listings of parks for snowbirds who spend more time in the southwest.

Bare minimum of information.......2007-01-31

This book does list many campgrounds, but it fails to give any kind of a rating or opinion. If you're trying to decide on where the best place to camp is, it isn't helpful at all. All you get is a list a amenities and the location. No pictures, but it does include a few maps.

Outstanding! The best Southwest RV Guide........2006-12-10

Excellent reference guide for RV travelers and snowbirds. We just spent six weeks traveling throughout Arizona and New Mexico with additional brief trips to Las Vegas and Lake Havasu City. This book became our first choice for campgound selection and tourist destination ideas. The section on snowbird parks is the best. This is truly a comprehensive and easy to use guidebook.

The U.S.A. Comprehensive Public Camping Guide (Lower 48), Vol. 3: Arizona, Idaho, New Mexico, Utah

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Cost a lot, of little value

The U.S.A. Comprehensive Public Camping Guide (Lower 48), Vol. 3: Arizona, Idaho, New Mexico, Utah
Jeanne Bowerman
Manufacturer: W D Bowerman
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0971267944

Book Description

A comprehensive list of Public Camping in the 48 U.S.A. Includes natural and educational points of interest and the sports available in each area. In large print. NO ADVERTISING! Volume 3 contains Arizona, Idaho, New Mexico and Utah.

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Cost a lot, of little value.......2003-05-17

Title pretty well sums it up. Found little to justify the cost of the list of campgrounds

Talking to the Ground: One Family's Journey on Horseback Across the Sacred Land of the Navajo

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Talking to the Ground
Enchanting adventure in the Navajo Nation
scholastic reality
Blending the Physical and the Myth
a must-read for anyone interested in American culture

Talking to the Ground: One Family's Journey on Horseback Across the Sacred Land of the Navajo
Douglas Preston
Manufacturer: University of New Mexico Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0826317405

Book Description

In 1992 Doug Preston and his family rode horseback across 400 miles of desert in Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. They were retracing the route of the Navajo deity Naayéé' neizghání, the Slayer of Alien Gods, on his quest to restore beauty and balance to the Earth. More than a travelogue, Preston's account of the journey is a tale of two cultures meeting in a sacred land.

The engaging account of a family's experience in tracing the path of the Navajo creation story in the Four Corners area.

Customer Reviews:

Talking to the Ground.......2007-01-17

As a native of New Mexico I found this book wonderful. I live with a Navajo who was raised very traditionally and he found the book wonderful also. Douglas Preston is the best.

Enchanting adventure in the Navajo Nation.......2006-03-10

It helps immensely to have travelled to the Navajo Nation when reading this story. I found that I had minor interest in the developing family story, compared to the lore and myth of the SW Native Americans. If you've travelled to the SW and are familiar with horses, you'll love this book.

scholastic reality.......2006-02-24

It's a pleasure to enjoy the author's background studies (dry) and then his reality (with large hail stones) on a search that leads to more respect... for everything.
Reading this book caused me to yearn for some concrete search of my own, and that is the dream this book passes along. It was given to me as someone else's favorite book. I can see why. Thanks.

Blending the Physical and the Myth.......2000-09-27

A wonderful read, both encouraging and disheartening, with some real family values thrown in. A graphic, first-hand description of the way things were and are, and might be. Mr. Preston provides many enduring messages about the sanctity of life and living that the Bilagaana have nearly completely lost in our rush of subservience to the technology god.

a must-read for anyone interested in American culture.......1999-10-17

This book and its predecessor, Cities of Gold, chronicle the amazing, arduous, foolhardy, inspired journeys of a "yankee" in search of the traces of cultures his own people have nearly annihilated. Unlike many memoirists, Preston doesn't shrink from chronicling his own failures and misjudgments, and that's what makes him so accessible to the people he meets along the way, and to the reader him or herself. Most of us will probably never have the guts to make these journeys or get to know all these people - that's what makes this book such a radical act of anti-tourism. Above all it's a poignant homage to "the people." (They know who they are!) If you're a horse person, a traveler to the southwest, or if you're just interested in the question "what is American?" you have to read these books now. And don't miss the great story about the skinwalkers - it's enough to keep you cold in July.

Camping Arizona, 2nd (Regional Camping Series)

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Details?
GREAT DETAIL - A MUST HAVE CAMPER'S BOOK

Camping Arizona, 2nd (Regional Camping Series)
Bruce Grubbs
Manufacturer: Falcon
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0762734132

Book Description

Fully updated and revised, Camping Arizona contains detailed information on more than 150 public campgrounds in Arizona. It's a guide for everyone from tenters to RVers.

Customer Reviews:

Details?.......2005-10-06

Although a good listing of public campgrounds in Arizona, I found it lacking in many important details. I recently stayed in a campground listed and although showing the correct hookups, it did not mention the site did not have showers-a very important detail to campers.

GREAT DETAIL - A MUST HAVE CAMPER'S BOOK.......2001-08-07

I was VERY impressed with the details of so many campgrounds in Arizona. I did not expect the book to be so detailed.

Horse Trails of Arizona: Mountain Trails and Camps

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Horse Trails of Arizona: Mountain Trails and Camps
Michael C. Yager
Manufacturer: Johnson Books
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Southwest Camping 1996-1997: The Complete Guide to More Than 35,000 Campsites in Arizona and New Mexico

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Southwest Camping 1996-1997: The Complete Guide to More Than 35,000 Campsites in Arizona and New Mexico
Martin Frentzel , Dennis Lewon , and Annette McGivney
Manufacturer: Foghorn Pr
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The Mystery at Rustler's Fort

Manufacturer: Whitman Publishing Company
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0911760334

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An original Whitman Classics from the 1950's by author Troy Nesbit (aka: Frank Folsom). THE MYSTERY AT RUSTLER'S FORT is one in a series of children's mystery books. In this edition, the protagonist is Phil McKenney who finds adventure and mystery while on a camping trip with his family in the Southwest of Arizona near the Grand Canyon. While in the campground, Phil discovers that other people have found uranium using geiger counters near the Vermilion Cliffs near the Colorado River. As Phil's family draws closer to their destination at Rustler's Fort, a strange mystery begins to emerge. Have they come too far to escape safely with their lives? Those familiar with Whitman's glossy cover and great original retro prints will no doubt appreciate this beautiful children's item from the past.

The Double Eagle Guide to Camping in Western Parks and Forests: Arizona

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The Double Eagle Guide to Camping in Western Parks and Forests: Arizona
Thomas Preston
Manufacturer: Discovery Publishing (MT)
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The guide to buy...

Outdoors in Arizona: A Guide to Camping
Bob Hirsch , and Marshall Trimble
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The guide to buy..........1998-04-17

My father and I prefer to travel without planning too many days ahead of ourselves. We'd finished two nights of packing into Organ Pipe National Monument and still had a week ahead of us. We weren't sure what came next. East to Kofa National Wildlife Refuge? West to Tucson? Luckily, we found this godsend of a book sitting pretty in the visitor center store. I am sure this book is fast becoming the essential guide to packing in Arizona. I am almost afraid to recommend it because I am giving away so many well-kept secrets: Aravaipa Canyon, Sycamore Canyon, Picacho Peak, Angel Basin... some of the greatest lesser-known places in the Southwest. I have followed this guide down countless miles of forest road to some of my favorite hikes in the West. The guide is well-organized into four climate regions: desert, canyon, mountain, and urban "backyard" hikes for those who only have a few hours. Each description is captivating enough to convince you - and you will never want to leave life on the trail behind you.

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