103 Hikes in Southwestern British Columbia

by David Macaree, Jack Bryceland, Mary Macaree

Book Overview

Southwestern British Columbia's bestselling and most comprehensive hiking guide is bigger and better than ever. It guides hikers of all abilities around lakes, rivers, and mountains from the North Shore and Howe Sound to Squamish, Whistler, Pemberton, and east to the Fraser Valley and Hope-Manning Park. Each route contains directions to the trailhead, photographs and descriptions, distance and elevation gains, estimated hiking times, and points of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1553653742
• ISBN13: 9781553653745
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Greystone Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

One of the three classics

Excellent hiking guide. Exact, blow-by-blow details for hikes within a weekend of Vancouver. These hikes all have trails. For off-trail hikes, where one navigates through the forest and alpine with a topographic map, compass, and altimeter, and for descriptions of climbing routes, use the book by Bruce Fairley (which is essentially an update of Dick Culbert's "Hiking Guide to Southwest BC"). Culbert's guide is out of print and badly out of date, but IMO a better, more concise guidebook. For instructions on HOW to hike and climb, try "The Complete Walker III" by Colin Fletcher, and on how to climb try "Mountaineering: Freedom of the Hills".

Probably the best hiking book for the vancouver Region

I have worn out 3 copies of this book over the year. Very good selection of hikes within a days drive of Vancouver. Good directions to trail heads and acurate time estimates for hike completion.