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Summary: The first guide of the Arizona Trail is a tool for hikers.
Review: Covering the Arizona Trail from border to border this book accomplishes the goal. Due to the overwhelming area covered the trail descriptions are brief. Excellent additional information is included. How to get along with the wildlife and trail etiquette is included. Job well done.
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Summary: On the Arizona trail
Review: For me, a relative newcomer to Arizona and a horseback trail rider, this book is invaluable. Not only does it get me to the trailheads with accuracy, and into magnificent country, but the authors share so very much more. This book is a treasure!
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Summary: Ok but could be MUCH better
Review: I will be the first toi admit that this is a needed book if you are planning a long distance AZT hike. However, this book could be much more helpful that it is. In comparison to great guidebooks such as the ones covering the Pacific Crest Trail and the Colorado Trail, this book is a stinker. Here are my gripes:-The trail descriptions are fairly detailed but would highly benefit from "data points" such as those found the PCT guidebooks. These things make planning a hike, especially one where distances between water sources are a concern, much easier. -The book needs maps. The maps it has are too vague, you will need to shell out more money in order to get maps that work. -The book breaks sections that are already short into even tinier sections. In some cases as short as four miles. This seems pointless to me. -Large sections of the book are unfinished. The unfinished sections of the book make up the majority of the trail, actually. This includes large sections of trail that have not been built yet, which is understandable. However, I find it extremely annoying that the authors failed to give a description for trail sections that are built, but just haven't been signed as the AZT yet. For example, the AZT through the Mazatzal Wilderness uses previously built trails and roads exclusivly. It would have been very easy for the authors to hike these sections and give a description of them, but they have failed to do that. They don't even give basic information like water sources. This means that besides buying this book you are going to have to dig for a ton of information. Personally, I'd rather get the info sheets from the ATA.
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