Wild Colorado

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Summary: Wild Colorado is great!
Review: Not only is this book an indispensable must-have reference handbook with information on Colorado's Wildness and Wilderness Study Areas for the government professional and the wilderness advocate, it is also a guidebook for the outdoor enthusiast too. A guide to some of Colorado's most remote and pristine areas, this book describes ninety-seven hikes that can be done as either day hikes, backpacking trips, snowshoeing excursions, or on backcountry skis. That adds up to eight hundred miles of trails and every mile was personally hiked by the author. A lot of the suggested hikes in the book are not the most popular ones done by people, but little known sleeper hikes that will give you the best sampling of what each wilderness has to offer. Some of the Wilderness Study Areas covered in the book are so remote and untracked that no trail system exits. In that case the author has plotted a route based on landmarks. Whether your interest is looking at petroglyphs in Vermillion Canyon, visiting ancient Anasazi ruins in Cross Canyon, marveling at dinosaurs tracks in the Dolores River Canyon, viewing the many arches in Black Ridge Canyon, climbing a fourteener in the Sangre de Cristo Wilderness, fishing a remote lake or stream in the Never Summer Wilderness, or seeing the wildflowers in the Handies - Redcloud Peaks area, this book is for you. If you are wanting to get away from the crowds and you're looking for more of an adventure, I highly recommend this book.

In all fairness to the reader, I am the author's husband. I visited every one of these areas mentioned in the book and hiked every mile with my wife. As much time as that took to experience the areas first hand, my wife spent much more time researching and insuring that the facts in her book are as accurate as possible. The book was truly a labor of love and I don't think you will be disappointed in your purchase of this book.