Alaska Trails, Campgrounds, & Other Cool Stuff (SouthCentral & Northern Regions on Highway System) - Softcover

DeLaune, Valerie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0996855351 ISBN 13: 9780996855358

Publisher: Alaskan Natural Care Inc, 2019

Synopsis

This quick-reference print book is organized by highway/road. You can find trails and public campgrounds based on where you are planning on traveling, rather than finding a trail on the internet and having to figure out where it’s located, and then trying to figure out what else might be nearby. In addition to trails and campgrounds, you’ll also find information on downhill and cross-country ski areas, biking trails, visitor centers/ranger stations, public use cabins, hut systems, boat launches, river float trips, rest stops, and hostels. You’ll know where to get gas in remote locations, and where to take showers and dump RV tanks. Symbols are used so you can get information at a glance. Hikers sometimes ask: “Isn’t this all on the internet?” The answer is that much of it is, but aside from much of it being incorrect, it’s not organized/synthesized by location. This book was written because of sketchy information “out there” on the internet and other sources. Often the directions to the trailhead are incorrect, poor, or non-existent. The author found and verified directions, and checked basic information such as distances, elevation gains, and routes. Some websites claim to have people verifying their information, but one website actually maps the trail going 6.1 miles in the exact opposite direction of the actual trail! Once a single website gets the information incorrect, it propagates – for example, multiple websites had Curry Ridge Trail and K’esugi Ridge Trail as the same trail with interchangeable names, when in fact they are two separate and unconnected trails (as of 2019). So much information is incorrect (even from government agencies), that trails must be hiked with a GPS to verify information. This will subsequently be a continuing multi-year project with new editions released periodically.

About this title

About the Author

Valerie DeLaune has a degree in Forestry/Recreation/Interpretation from the University of Washington. As an Alaskan for 37 years, she catches her own fish, dances with wolves, runs away from charging moose, and wrestles with grizzly bears (OK, she doesn't really do the last one, at least not yet, but she has seen plenty of them and so far have had peaceful relationships with both black and brown bears). She can't see Russia from her house, but she can see her outhouse. In her free time she loves to downhill ski, snowshoe, hike, camp, backpack, kayak, boat, fish, and dance. Valerie is also the author of twelve self-help books on trigger point pain relief (see TriggerPointRelief.com). She also writes health care articles for medical journals and magazines, and newspapers, and teaches continuing education workshops for health care providers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Alaskan Natural Care Inc
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0996855351
• ISBN 13: 9780996855358
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 191