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Adventuring in Arizona (A Sierra Club Travel Guide)
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MSRP: $16.00
Your Price: $5.95
Savings: $ 10.05 ( 63% )
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Manufacturer: Sierra Club Books for Children
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Additional Adventuring in Arizona (A Sierra Club Travel Guide) Information
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Completely revised and updated, Adventuring in Arizona is the authoritative guide to outdoor adventure in the wild and beautiful Grand Canyon State. Arizona's miracuLousLy diverse terrain boasts the Grand Canyon, dubbed one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World, the Largest ponderosa pine forest in the contiguous United States, three principal river systems, more than 200 mountain ranges, and America's most extraordinary mix of deserts. By providing the colorful history surrounding each of the 50 modern adventures showcased here, this guide will deepen the outdoor enthusiast's encounter with Arizona. Visitors can hike ancient Anasazi migration routes; retrace Padre Kino's bold footsteps across the Camino del Diablo, the Devil's Highway; navigate John WesLey Powell's controversial first voyage down the Legendary CoLorado river; and much, much more. Adventuring in Arizona also features:
-- 50 recommended outdoor adventures including day hikes, canyoneering, climbing, mountaineering, canoeing, whitewater rafting, and car touring.
-- Comprehensive region-by-region coverage of the mountains, canyons, deserts, and rivers of Arizona -- from 10,000-foot peaks to mile-deep canyons.
-- AccessibLe histories of the state's early adventurers, including Native Americans, Spanish explorers, mountain men, prospectors, surveyors, and pioneers.
-- Travel notes and planning essentials including primary access, elevation, mileage, traveling time, suggested campsites, proper gear, best seasons to visit, maps, water sources, nearest supply points, managing agencies, permits and flora and fauna.
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What Customers Say About Adventuring in Arizona (A Sierra Club Travel Guide):
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Modest price, timely shipping, received in like new condition. This book was given to a friend, recently moved to Arizona to enable a better understanding of the naturalist environment and is the fourth copy but not the last I will give away. Thank you all, Dr. Joe
ADVENTURING IN ARIZONA by John Annerino [is] one of my bibles
I found John Annerino's ADVENTURING IN ARIZONA a great source of information.
Water is nearly non-existent along the route, and those attempting it should bring along at least four gallons per person per day, a luxury Kino could not enjoy. A longtime resident of Prescott and Tucson, Annerino has been tooling about on the state's dirt roads and hiking trails for a couple of decades now, and he's covered a huge swath of territory firsthand. Of all the general guidebooks I know on the Arizona outdoors, the best for hard-won information is John Annerino's ADVENTURING IN ARIZONA. Many available guidebooks uncritically repeat long-obsolete information on the location of the Camino's few watering holes. He takes in well-known destinations, from the Grand Canyon to South Mountain, but, more to the point here, he offers mile-by-mile instructions for more remote places like the Superstition Mountains and the Lechuguilla Desert. One of the treks he proposes, not for the faint of heart or easily sun-stroked, retraces Padre Eusebio Francisco Kino's route across southern Arizona's Camino del Diablo - a fitting name meaning "Devil's Highway," a route that comes the closest Arizona has to compete with Death Valley for sheer hellishness. Annerino went out to the place himself - in summer, no less - to map them on foot, an act that may well save a few lives some day. -New Times
John's ADVENTURING IN ARIZONA has always been a favorite on our bookshelf.
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