Catskill Trails: A Ranger's Guide to the High Peaks - Softcover

Henry, Edward G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1883789222 ISBN 13: 9781883789220

Publisher: Black Dome Pr, 2000

Synopsis

Catskill Trails offers rewarding hikes for every level of ability. Each hike is accompanied by a trail map, a photo, and a key to the hike supplying such useful information as where to park, trail difficulty, climb in elevation, distance traveled, and a short synopsis of the route itself.The author, a conservation professional, has taken an interdisciplinary approach, drawing the latest information from geology, forest ecology, meteorology, wildlife biology, geography, economics, and history to offer a well-rounded picture of the Catskill Mountains as the hikes rise to the sky through levels of rock strata and ever-changing forests. The goal, as the author states, is for the reader to experience the hike and see the Catskills as a natural historian, not a tourist, and to see not just the present, but the past as well ... and maybe even the future.Written in a lyrical style that carries the reader swiftly along from trailhead to rocky precipice, while missing nothing along the way, Catskill Trails combines the eye of the scientist with the sensibility of the poet. The result is a very unusual synthesis -- a hiking guide that reads almost as well in an overstuffed armchair as along a trail-less ridge or windblown rock outcropping.

About this title

About the Author:

Ed Henry has worked as a forest ranger in the Shenandoah and Great Smokey Mountains National Parks, and for the US Forest Service and the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

Review:

... ideal trailside companion to Rip Van Winkle's legendary mountains, and a valuable guide for both novice and seasoned hikers. -- Kaatskill Life Magazine: Spring, 2000

The author paints verbal pictures of the region not often found in guide books... -- Trail Walker, Sept./Oct. 2000

About this edition

• Publisher: Black Dome Pr
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1883789222
• ISBN 13: 9781883789220
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 184