Best Hikes With Dogs Colorado | 
 enlarge | Author: Ania Savage
Brand: The Mountaineers Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 225107
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 269
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0898869684
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.88
EAN: 9780898869682
ASIN: 0898869684
Publication Date: April 15, 2005
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Product Description
80 hikes selected to delight your dog (and you) throughout Colorado-many accessible from urban areas. *Seldom explored trails where no leashes are required and terrain is easy on the paws *Advice on keeping your dog happy, healthy, and hydrated in Colorado's High Country *What to pack: the Ten Canine Essentials and a Doggy First Aid Kit Whether your dog is big or small, an overweight couch potato or a muscular retriever, Ania Savage has selected the best trails for every type of dog. She's been hiking with canine companions for more than twenty years and looks at the land through dog-centric eyes. These hikes will delight both you and your pet with panoramic views, soft tundra grasses, plenty of flowing water, and unexplored valleys and forests where you may have the trail to yourself. Savage puts a premium on canine safety, including tips on how to gauge the effect of high altitude and thin air on your dog. From short day hikes to longer backpacking trips, many trails are clustered along the three highway "corridors" that penetrate the Colorado Rockies. They stretch from the Wyoming border to the San Juan Mountains in southern Colorado and west to Grand Junction, and including the Foothills near Denver; many have never before been described in another guidebook.
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 Worse than useless book July 28, 2008
Malcolm Jones
After traveling from Texas, we used this book to select a quick 2 mile hike on our first day in Colorado,. Upon getting started on the hike, we realized that the author's idea of an easy hike was way off base. The hike had 500 feet of elevation gain per mile and was way to steep to enjoy with our dogs on leashes (especially downhill). Later we researched the hike with another author and found the hike graded as strenuous. A local hiker asked us on our hike why we picked the such a steep trail for our initial hike. We will not use the Best Hikes with Dogs Colorado again. We will do our own research and calculate the elevation change ourselves.
If you are an advanced mountain hiker and work with your dog off leash frequently, this book will probably work for you. If you are a flatlander and come to Colorado for its wonderful mountains, the hikes selected in this book are probably too aggressive for hiking with your dog.
 Great book, great seller! March 31, 2008
K. Buoncristiano (Columbus, OH)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book came to us in a timely manner, and was in great condition. The book itself is great and full of awesome information on where to hike with your dog in Colorado! Highly recommended!
Good and Bad September 3, 2007
reader (Denver, Colorado)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Just wanted to make a point that I know several of the hikes in this book, and where some are great places to take my dog, there is one in particular that I wouldn't recommend for dogs. I was disappointed in the recommendation of The Bergen Peak trail; I find the trail too narrow and rocky to share with mountain bikers. It was an awful experience and I vowed never to go there with my dog again. I had to be constantly alert to mountain bikers coming from both directions, and I had to pull my dog off of the trail every time they went by because there is not enough room for all of us. I KNOW that mountain bikers are supposed to yield to my dog and me, but I have been in too many situations where they don't; and if they are coming downhill, their momentum is too fast to stop. I prefer to take my dog where I don't have to share the trail with mountain bikers.
 Pretty good May 23, 2006
heyhey
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book isn't bad. Her hikes are pretty limited to the upper half of the state, though. So if you want to hike in southern Colorado, there aren't many options in this book.
I do wish she'd included all the information for each hike with the trail chapter--there's a chart at the beginning, so you have to flip back and forth between the hike information and the chart (i.e. off leash, easy, solitude, etc...). Also, the directions are a little sketchy on a few of the hikes, so take a map with you!
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