Product Description

Experience the majesty of glorious Mount Rainier National Park! The tallest mountain in the Cascade Range has long beckoned hikers to its many trails. Compact, portable, and beautifully packaged, Day Hiking Mount Rainier provides the most thorough coverage of Mount Rainier National Park to date, including the park's four main entrances--Nisqually, Carbon River, White River/Sunrise, and Stevens Canyon/Ohanapecosh -- as well as Cayuse Pass and Highway 123, the Grove of the Patriarchs, Camp Muir, parts of the Wonderland Trail, Longmire, and Paradise. Nearby camping options are included, plus info on how to extend your hike, a full-color photo insert and overview map, quick-reference icons for kids, dogs, views, and much more.

* 70 national park trails, each rated on an overall-quality scale of 1 to 5 * Hikes-at-a-Glance chart, topographic maps, GPS waypoints, and elevation profiles * Crystal-clear directions with drive-times from major cities and junctions * 1% of sales donated to the Washington Trails Association

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #260197 in Books
• Published on: 2008-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 227 pages

Review
"A marvelous new guide to day hikes around the great Northwest mountain; detailed maps, elevation charts and photos add to the guide's essential character." -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"Both books [Day Hiking: Mount Rainier and Day Hiking: North Cascades] offer great, up-to-date info... Can't be without `em." -- The Seattle Times

"[The Day Hiking series is an] essential reference tool." -- The Reel News

About the Author
DAN NELSON is an outdoor columnist and the author of several hiking guidebooks. ALAN BAUER is a professional freelance photographer specializing in the natural history of the Pacific Northwest.

Customer Reviews

Great little book...
I say little, only because the book won't take up much space in your pack. It includes a lot of hikes and a lot of information, nonetheless. I really like the Day Hiking series, and have used it to find some great new (to me) hiking trails. One of my only complaints about the Mt. Rainier hiking guide is that the publishers printed a new map for every hike in the book, even though two trails might have beens side-by-side, without even overlapping, and trail B might be visible in the map for trail A, and vice-versa. It's slightly annoying, because it makes it harder to gain a sense for where the trails are in comparison to each other. This hit a head at the trails out of the Paradise area, where at least five trails overlapped. While five trails on one map could have gotten confusing, a happy compromise of two maps with a few trails each would have saved spaced, and shown the proper relationship between the trails. I also had a problem with a few trails where hike A might be to travel five miles along one trail, and hike B might be to travel ten miles along the same trail. That's not two different hikes; that's just turning around sooner or later (and summarized in an 'extending your trip' box for most of the other hikes). The Day Hiking North Cascades book presented it's trails in a much neater fashion, by clearly indicating overlapping or nearby trails on the same map, without exaggerating the number of hikes included.