Hiking the Southwest's Canyon Country - Softcover

Hinchman, Sandra

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9780898862089: Hiking the Southwest's Canyon Country

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0898862086 ISBN 13: 9780898862089

Publisher: Mountaineers Books, 1990

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With its first-rate information on how to make your trip to the American Southwest's Canyon Country a safe and pleasant one, this is an excellent guidebook. But if you're interested in learning more about the geology, archeology, native cultures, and natural splendors of red rock territory along the way, it's downright indispensable.

In this new edition, six completely revised two- and three-week trip itineraries give information on some of the high desert's most enjoyable trails and breathtaking scenic attractions in Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. For each trip cluster, Hinchman provides handy, easy-to-read maps and enticing photographs, along with natural and human history of the area, basic geologic and archeological history, and an overview of the area's climate and plant and animal life. Hikers will come to understand and appreciate, for instance, the Anasazi dwellings at Mesa Verde as well as the natural forces that converged to create the Grand Canyon.

Whether planning to stake out whimsical hoodoos in Goblin Valley, explore Chaco Canyon, or feast your eyes on any number of cliffs, arches, and petroglyphs, this is one guidebook you'll be glad you packed.

About the Author:

Sandra Hinchmann has explored the Southwest for over 20 years, and considers the Colorado Plateau her true home. She is currently a professor of government at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York.

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