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Summary: The most complete reference to the Grand Canyon I've found!
Review: Butchart's book is the only reference to about half the routes talked about in the book! Having hiked several of the routes in the book, ive found the descriptions to give just enough information to get you going in the right direction without taking away the adventure of it all by telling you every detail that you will experience. A must for Canyon hikers.
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Summary: An essential guide, but beware of an error in this reprint
Review: Harvey Butchart is of course the God of Grand Canyon hiking and this guide is essential for any serious backcountry canyon hiker. While hiking down to the river in Cottonwood Canyon, I was sent on a scary, exposure-filled detour by this guide. On returning home, I compared it to my old editions of the book and found that this reprint mistakenly drops an entire crucial line of text in the Cottonwood Canyon section, so beware.
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Summary: An essential guide, but beware of an error in this reprint
Review: Harvey Butchart is one of the greatest Grand Canyon hikers and his books are classics. But don't rely on them as your primary guide. They make great supplemental guides if you already have Annerino's Sierra Club guide.Of course, Harvey includes routes you won't find in any other book, since he pioneered them. If you are a serious Canyon hiker, your library is incomplete without Harvey.
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Summary: Not the Only Guide You'll Ever Need
Review: Harvey Butchart is one of the greatest Grand Canyon hikers and his books are classics. But don't rely on them as your primary guide. They make great supplemental guides if you already have Annerino's Sierra Club guide. Of course, Harvey includes routes you won't find in any other book, since he pioneered them. If you are a serious Canyon hiker, your library is incomplete without Harvey.
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Summary: Not What You're Expecting
Review: I bought this book thinking it contained maps and detailed trail descriptions for obscure Canyon paths, only to find that it did not. (If you want that, get Annerino's Sierra Club book, which is the best available that I've seen, and I have the Falcon Guide too, which is likewise more helpful than this work, though this one touches upon some tremendously obscure areas Falcon doesn't.) As a guide, this book is ok, but *definitely* insufficiently detailed. I found it fascinating and entertaining, but it should be called Harvey Butchart's Fairly General Descriptions of Grand Canyon Trails, Very Well Written, and With Stories About Many of These Trails. It was very frustrating to get the book without the highly detailed Butchart maps, which are alluded to (they show in red pen the paths and approaches he took, and in many cases, pioneered) but NOT INCLUDED. Butchart has led a hiking life for all of us to envy, as this book makes clear.
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Summary: ¿The ultimate companion guide to the Grand Canyon.
Review: This is what people are saying about Harvey Butchart and history of 12,000 miles of the Canyon's more than 1.2 million acres." "Harvey Butchart is the undisputed king of extreme and obsessive Grand Canyon hiking." Backpacker Magazine "I set about tracking down the experts on foot travel in the Canyon... In the end I discovered that they totaled one... Harvey Butchart." Colin Fletcher, author, "The Man Who Walked Through Time" "Harvey Butchart hiked more than 12,000 miles in a combined total of 1,000 days - a distance comparable to walking halfway around the earth. He is credited with finding more than 116 approaches to the Colorado River, and with summiting 83 of the 138 named peaks in the Canyon, 35 of those being first ascents." "Harvey is a legend." George Mancuso "The father of modern Grand Canyon hiking." John Annerino, author "Attractive book... edited by AAC member Wynne Benti" American Alpine Clu
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