books by Colorado Mountain Club Press     books:       Rocky Mountain Flora: A Colorado Mountain Club Field Guide (Colorado Mountain Club Field Guides)1 review James Ells Colorado Mountain Club Press, 2006 Useful field guide This guide is very easy to use in the field. It is a soft cover, half page size so it stows easily in my pack. Flowers are categorized by color and easy to look up. It has additional sections on mosses, mushrooms, grasses, etc. A very user friendly guide.             The Essential Guide to Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve (Jewels of the Rockies)9 reviews Charlie Winger, Diane Winger Colorado Mountain Club Press, 2003 Accurate and entertaining This is an excellent guidebook. Most importantly, the maps and descriptions are very accurate yet still entertaining to read. The guidebook encompasses short family appropriate hikes such as the Visitor Center Interpretive trail (.5 miles) to the more strenuous bushwhacking ascent of Carbonate Mountain (9.2 miles and 4,580 feet). A resource guide at the back of the book summarizes hikes by ...             Colorado Scrambles: A Guide To 50 Select Climbs In Colorado's Mountains (Cmc Classics)12 reviews Dave Cooper Colorado Mountain Club Press, 2005 Excellent Guidebook I purchased Colorado Scrambles in summer of 2005. Having moved from Colorado the previous summer, I came out on vacation in September 2005 for mountain climbing and used the book extensively. It is a good mix of route descriptions with pictures. I climbed Lookout Peak, Arrow, Engineer, Vermilion, SW ridge of Sneffels and the Citadel with the excellent info provided by Colorado Scrambles. The ...             Peaceful Canyon Golden River: A Photographic Journey Through Fabled Glen Canyon1 review Colorado Mountain Club Press, 2002 Fabled Glen Canyon David Gaskill's photographic journey through Glen Canyon is a real treat. The photographs are stunning and the book's design is both professional and attractive. Gaskill's book provides a wonderful glimpse of one of Colorado's treasures. A perfect coffee table book.             Highpoint Adventures : The Complete Guide to the 50 State Highpoints17 reviews Charlie Winger, Diane Winger Colorado Mountain Club Press, 2002 This one has it all Excellent guidebook. Provides everything you need in a few concise pages for each "mountain": Location, directions, summary statistics and comparisons, maps, alternate routes, nearby attractions, and human interest. The hiking distance and vertical elevation charts for each route are instantly helpful. The absence of errors is truly amazing for a book category that is continuously travel ...             The Colorado Trail: The Official Guidebook4 reviews Colorado Mountain Club Press, 2002 If you are bound for the Colorado Trail, bring this! Now in a fully updated fifth edition, The Colorado Trail: The Official Guidebook provides comprehensive and essential information for hikers and outdoor enthusiasts wanting to enjoy one of Colorado's premier wilderness features available to the public year round. Featured are full-color maps of each trail segment; detailed descriptions of every mile; tips and advice from outdoors experts; more ...             The Trad Guide to Joshua Tree: 60 Favorite Climbs from 5.5 to 5.912 reviews Charlie Winger, Diane Winger Colorado Mountain Club Press, 2004 A MUST HAVE BOOK!! Wow! Great book, color detailed photos of routes, sun/shade orientation for all routes & basically all the info that one needs to have a memorable trip in Joshua Tree. Also great to have a book that has a focus on climbs under 5.10. All in all this is the most informative climbing book I have ever purchased. Would have been happy paying twice the price I paid for it.             Colorado Lake Hikes: The Colorado Mountain Club Guidebook (Colorado Mountain Club Guidebooks)1 review Dave Muller Colorado Mountain Club Press, 2008 The high country of Colorado offers a wealth of outdoor recreational experiences for hikers The high country of Colorado offers a wealth of outdoor recreational experiences for hikers. Part of 'The Colorado Mountain Club Guidebook' series, and now in an newly updated and expanded second edition, "Colorado Lake Hikes" by hiking and cross-country skiing enthusiast and 'The Denver Post' columnist Dave Muller offers a fully illustrated collection of one hundred hikes to 145 different ...             The Colorado Trail: The Trailside Databook (Trailside Guide)1 review Colorado Mountain Club Press, 2002 Most useful book for the Colorado Trail Ounce for ounce and dolalr for dollar the best guide for the CT. Gives you the needed info at a quick glance. Highly suggested!             Morpha: A Rain Forest Story (Wilderness Kids)1 review Michael Tennyson Colorado Mountain Club Press, 2002 Enchanting story Tennyson weaves an enchanting tale of the delicate balance of life in the rainforest. Through the senses of a blue morpho butterfly, he charms readers into discovering the layers of the rainforest, its inhabitants and their importance in the cycle of life. He presents the question of human inhabitants and their role in the cycle, and sensitively handles the issue of deforestation. The story ends ...             Guide to the Colorado Mountains8 reviews Randy Jacobs Colorado Mountain Club Press, 2000 It Is Exactly What I Wanted... This book covers ALL the mountain ranges in Colorado, and does it in an interesting and informative way. It does NOT give detailed trail guides...how could it and still be portable? Although a resident of Colorado for many years, I still wondered just where one range began and another left off, what was the history of a particular region, what was the translation and derivation of some ...             Roof of the Rockies: A History of Colorado Mountaineering3 reviews William M. Bueler Colorado Mountain Club Press, 2000 Interesting tales and stories Some truly fascinating stories here of climbing in the Colorado Rockies with a lot of historical photos. You'll come away with appreciation of the achievements of the old timers. With footnotes, sometimes it seems a little too dry but overall I enjoyed the tales of first ascents, tragedies, legendary figures, and what must of been, great fun. This new edition carries the story right up to this ...             The Essential Guide to Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park (Jewels of the Rockies) John Jenkins Colorado Mountain Club Press, 2004 The 2000-foot, near-vertical gorge of Gunnison National Park's Black Canyon is the center of a recreational mecca for nearly 1,000,000 annual visitors. · One of America's most unique and spectacular natural wonders, formed by centuries of rushing water and scouring rock · This western Colorado national park is one our nation's newest · The latest title in the Colorado Mountain Club's series, Jewels of the Rockies, showcasing the ...             The Colorado 14ers: A Colorado Mountain Club Pack Guide 2nd Edition Colorado Mountain Club Press, 2006 The essential guide to the most popular routes up all 54 of the Colorado 14ers ? Over a half-million North Americans attempt to climb at least one Colorado 14er every year ? The most current guide to the 14ers available ? The most beta on 14ers for the least amount of money This completely rewritten and redesigned second edition is organized by mountain range?the only book you will need to find the most popular route up each of the 54 ...             Colorado Fourteeners 2002 Calendar Colorado Fourteeneers Colorado Mountain Club Press, 2001             Best Fort Collins Hikes: The Colorado Mountain Club Pack Guide (Colorado Mountain Club Pack Guides)4 reviews John Gascoyne Colorado Mountain Club Press, 2008 Great Trails around Ft. Collins What a great idea! A trail guide that fits in my pocket, has 4-color photos, is accurate, concise and right on in terms of everything I need to know about the trails around Ft. Collins. I operate an adventure travel company and have led hiking trips around the world for more than 20 years. When I'm back in my favorite haunts around Ft. Collins I love having easy to access knowledge about the ...             The Colorado Year Round Outdoor Guide (Cmc Classics) Dave Muller Colorado Mountain Club Press, 2004 Year-round fun is the idea here with 100 described outings for any level of hiker, snowshoer, and skier. · Contains many of the best outings in the state from the Colorado Mountain Club, the hiking and climbing experts in the Rockies for nearly a century. · Full-color guidebook · One of the first two titles in a new series from the Colorado Mountain Club: CMC's Classics Colorado's spectacular mountains are known for year-round ...             Colorado Summit Hikes for Everyone (Cmc Classics)2 reviews Dave Muller Colorado Mountain Club Press, 2003 Not helpful - rather misleading We bought is because it dawned on us that not all mountains we may want climb are Fourteeners. The format of the book is very practical - two pages with a map - rather a sketch that you expect to see on the back of an envelope. Muller is much into bushwacking - but for this purpose descriptions can be highly inaccurate and misleading (to add to the list of other reviewer: Hike 7: the mountain was ...             Colorado Scrambles: Climbs Off the Beaten Path Dave Cooper Colorado Mountain Club Press, 2009 Colorado Scrambles: A Guide to 50 Select Climbs in Colorado's Mountainsby Dave CooperThe Colorado Mountains provide endless opportunities for climbers, and now in the latest installment of the Colorado Mountain Club's Classics series, Dave Cooper has compiled this guidebook that offers complete descriptions for some of the best scrambling throughout the state of Colorado. Rather than use the height of a peak or its region, this book explores the ...             Classica Run the Rockies: Classic Trail Runs in Colorado's Front Range (Cmc's Classics) Steven Bragg Colorado Mountain Club Press, 2004 A comprehensive reference guide to the Colorado Front Range for any level of trail runner. *Contains many of the best outings in the state from the Colorado Mountain Club, the outdoor experts in the Rockies for nearly a century *Full-color guidebook, plus fully GPS enabled *The latest in a new series from the Colorado Mountain Club: CMC's Classics Everyone knows that the Colorado Rockies contain some of the most spectacular trails in ...              search for books adventures, calendar, classica, classics, colorado, complete, databook, essential, everyone, favorite, fourteeners, guidebook, guidebooks, gunnison, highpoint, highpoints, history, mountain, mountaineering, mountains, national, official, outdoor, peaceful, photographic, preserve, scrambles, through, trailside, wilderness books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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