Grand Canyon Treks: 12,000 Miles Through the Grand Canyon | 
 enlarge | Authors: Scott Baxter, Joseph G. Hall
Creators: Jorgen Visbak, Wynne Benti, Spotted Dog Press
Publisher: Spotted Dog Press (CA)
Category: Book
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Edition: 1st
Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 0964753022
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.91320453
EAN: 9780964753020
ASIN: 0964753022
Publication Date: June 1998
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When Harvey Butchart arrived in Flagstaff, Arizona from Iowa just after the end of World War II, he had only seen pictures of the Grand Canyon in books. Soon, he made his first trip there and was hooked. For 40 years, the mathematics professor from NAU, later called the Òundisputed king of extreme and obsessive Grand Canyon hikingÓ by Backpacker Magazine, hiked more than 12,000 miles into remote and previously uncharted Canyon territory recording his routes on detailed maps and in journal entries. From LeeÕs Ferry to Lake Mead, Harvey Butchart was credited with finding more than 116 new approaches to the Colorado River and with summiting 83 of the 138 named peaks in the Canyon, 35 of those being first ascents. In Grand Canyon Treks, Butchart shares his pioneering explorations with entirely new generations of Grand Canyon adventurers.
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 Outdated and sometimes misleading November 24, 2007
Candace Scott (Lake Arrowhead, CA, USA)
This is considered almost the Bible of Grand Canyon hiking books. Though I admire the author tremendously, the book is simply too outdated to be seriously used today. The text was fine in the 1970's or 80's, but trail conditions have changed and errors pop up repeatedly. This can have potentially fatal consequences for someone who relies on this book as the gospel truth.
For instance, the distance between the Bright Angel trail and the Colorado river is emphatically not 7.6 miles. Nor is it an additional 2.7 miles to Phantom Ranch from this point. This might seem like an inconsequential point unless you're a neophyte hiker who finds themself at the river and believes that it's about two and a half miles to Phantom Ranch. This can make someone underestimate their need for fluids or food. It will also screw up their timetable significantly.
The book was also written before the River Trail was blasted into existence and it results in some very confusing paragraphs which simply are long outdated at this point.
In addition, there isn't enough warnings about the dangers of hiking in the Canyon in the brutal heat of summer. Increasingly, unprepared people die in the Canyon because of heat stroke and biting off more than they can chew.
In short, this was once an excellent guide with relevant information, but there are too many errors and omissions to trust this book blindly. Especially when entering such a hostile enviornment as the canyon.
 A treasure for anyone curious about what it's like to travel the Grand Canyon on foot. August 6, 2007
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Written by experienced hiker Harvey Butchart, Grand Canyon Treks is a travelogue of Butchart's pioneering explorations through the Grand Canyon, whose travels have taken him across more than 12,000 miles of remote and previously uncharted Grand Canyon territory. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, Grand Canyon Treks is an armchair traveler's delight in its vivid descriptions of numerous trails, from Bright Angel Trail and Campground to Tanner Trail routes away from it in the Eastern Grand Canyon, to upriver and downriver from President Harding Rapids in the Marble Canyon area, to the Toroweap Area in the Western Grand Canyon and much, much more. Appendices offer a wealth of helpful hints for aspiring hikers, such as precautions to take to avoid heat-related illness and hypothermia, but Grand Canyon Treks is primarily a travelogue to be savored for its details, memories, and fascinating tidbits of historical background, not a how-to guide and not a collection of trail maps. A treasure for anyone curious about what it's like to travel the Grand Canyon on foot.
An essential guide, but beware of an error in this reprint January 14, 2000
17 out of 19 found this review helpful
Harvey Butchart is of course the God of Grand Canyon hiking and this guide is essential for any serious backcountry canyon hiker. While hiking down to the river in Cottonwood Canyon, I was sent on a scary, exposure-filled detour by this guide. On returning home, I compared it to my old editions of the book and found that this reprint mistakenly drops an entire crucial line of text in the Cottonwood Canyon section, so beware.
Not the Only Guide You'll Ever Need January 1, 2000
Clark B. Hinckley (Salt Lake City, Utah)
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
Harvey Butchart is one of the greatest Grand Canyon hikers and his books are classics. But don't rely on them as your primary guide. They make great supplemental guides if you already have Annerino's Sierra Club guide.Of course, Harvey includes routes you won't find in any other book, since he pioneered them. If you are a serious Canyon hiker, your library is incomplete without Harvey.
The most complete reference to the Grand Canyon I've found! June 9, 1999
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Butchart's book is the only reference to about half the routes talked about in the book! Having hiked several of the routes in the book, ive found the descriptions to give just enough information to get you going in the right direction without taking away the adventure of it all by telling you every detail that you will experience. A must for Canyon hikers.
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