Travel to Arizona

Boater's Guide to Lake Powell: Featuring Hiking, Camping, Geology, History and Archaeology (4th Edition)

Format: Paperback
Author: Michael R. Kelsey
ReleaseDate: August, 2001
Publisher: Kelsey Publishing (Utah)
Rating:

Great Resource
Good details for hiking from your boat and how to find the interesting historic and archaeologic teasures in an already amazing area.

Full of great information that's impossible to access
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That said, this is a book. I once read that, "Indexes are among those necessary but never spectacular products of hard as well as skilled work that can sometimes make the difference between a book and good book.
And it needs an index.
It also needs a clearer table of contents, an acceptance that the metric system will never gain popularity in America, fewer photos of the author in tiny shorts, and a complete redesign by someone who understands the value of a clear font and of blank white space between chapters.
These comments could be said of all of Michael Kelsey's guidebooks--all of which are full of facts, maps, and hikes that are indispensible to exploring the Colorado Plateau, and all of which are incredibly hard to find anything in.
I wish I could rate this higher, because these guides really have been helpful to me over the years--especially this one--but a guidebook should be easy to use, and its information should be easily accessible.
I'll keep my fingers crossed for the fifth edition.

Helpful book
However, It still has lots of usefull information for boaters. The emphasis of this book is hiking and is kind of like a boaters guide to hiking canyons.

Even though the water levels were allmost 100ft below full on our last visit we still took the authors advice and hiked the narrow slotted canyon at the end of west canyon. This was a highlight of our one week trip and we would have never known about it without this book!

Lake powell is amazingly huge and beutiful. Having this book as a resource was well worth the money and added to the quality of our trip.

It would be nice if there were more books and guides on lake powell. But since this is the only one I found I can't complain much about it.


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