Synopses & Reviews
If you like to spend your free time outside, this four-season guide will get you therewhether you want a hiking trail through High Cascades meadows, a Puget Sound sea-kayak route, a slope to telemark ski, or a path through a rain forest. Look inside for all the information you need to explore the Pacific Northwest at its finest. Everything You Need to Enjoy the Outdoors:
- Evocative descriptions of hundreds of outingswith estimated times, difficulty ratings, and detailed directions
- The best outfitters, from major adventure-tour operators to local backcountry guides
- Where to find gear, services, and topo maps
- How to escape the crowds at Washington and Oregon's national parks and wilderness areas
- Where to pitch your tent, from car-accessible campsites to backcountry spotsplus wilderness lodges, B&Bs, and inns
- Detailed regional maps that direct you to the trailheads
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About the Author
Karl Samson, who now lives in Oregon, first started backpacking at age 12, canoeing at 14, surfing at 15, sailboarding at 24, and snowboarding at age 34 (you can teach an old dog new tricks). He got his start in travel-book writing more than a decade ago when he wrote about Nepal for a guidebook to India and Nepal. Since then he has authored Frommer's Nepal and numerous other guidebooks and travel articles that have taken him all over the world. Being chased by a sea snake in the Andaman Sea, struck at by a fer-de-lance in Costa Rica, stalking stinking corpse lilies in Sumatra, riding a camel across India's Thar Desert, and being eyeballed by sharks in Belize are past adventures that sometimes make Northwest outings seem tame by comparison. However, it is still the Northwest, his own backyard, that he finds offers the greatest variety of adventures in the smallest space.
Table of Contents
List of Maps.
Map Legend.
1. The Basics.
2. The San Juan Islands & Washington's Northwest Coast.
3. The Puget Sound.
4. The Olympic Peninsula & Southwest Washington Coast.
5. The North Cascades.
6. The Central Washington Cascades.
7. The Mount Rainier & Mount St. Helens Areas.
8. The Columbia Gorge, Mount Hood & Mount Adams.
9. The Willamette Valley, Portland to Eugene.
10. The West-Central Oregon Cascades.
11. Central Oregon.
12. Southern Oregon.
13. The Oregon Coast & Coast Range.
Index.