100 Hikes in the Alps

by Vicky Spring

Book Overview

Fully detailed, best-selling hiking guides. These best of the best guides feature full-color photos and maps throughout. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898863333
• ISBN13: 9780898863338
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Mountaineers Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Best Alps-Specific Guide Book available

Not only does this book do an excellent job of providing a good range (1/2 day hikes to 10 day treks) of the best hikes (it by no means covers all the hikes available - a task more suited for a set of encyclopedias as opposed to a compact guide book) in the Alps region. The descriptions are both accurate and cover the hikes in sufficient detail to give the reader a good idea of what to expect. They include vertical gain/loss info, approx. hiking time and distances in addition to descriptions of what you'll see along the way. It accurately describes the technical difficulty of the trails and if any special equipment will be required.I found the descriptions useful not only in deciding what hikes to do but also in deciding what areas to visit and what to see along the way. I plan to use the book again for future trips to the region.

100 Hikes in the Alps

This book was amazing! I bought it before my vacation to the Alps and it helped a lot! This book helps you find hotels and nice places to stay while you take your trip. It also gave me good ideas of where to go. The most interesting places. It showed you where the big sites were. At first I didn't want to walk the whole way, but this book showed me how beautiful it was. It has beautiful pictures and really gave you an idea of what it was like. Buy it! It is not very expensive! It was so good that I looked up for more books buy the author of this fantastic book! They were also great!