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Title: Climbing and Hiking in the Wind River Mountains, 2nd by Joe Kelsey ISBN: 0-934641-70-6 Publisher: Falcon Pub. Date: 01 January, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Mountaineering Book for more than just Mountaineers
Comment: I bought this book to plan a week-long backpacking trip. It is very similar in concept to Secor's "High Sierra" guide for CA's Sierra Nevada: Adequate description of the trails and off-trail passes, and comprehensive information for climbers on about everything climbable. I am not a technical climber and cannot judge the book's usefulness as a real "climbing guide", but I like to take off-trail excursions, shortcuts, and scrambles. Together with the "Earthwalk" topos (which are excellent) this book was just the right thing for planning a backpacking trip with "side adventures". If you stay strictly on the trail, you might find a pure trail guide more useful, as trail descriptions only make up 10 or 20% of the text. Off-trail travel turned out to be easy in the Wind Rivers, though.
The book has a short and very interesting account of the history of Wind River exploration.
Rating: 4
Summary: Awesome guide for the experienced mountaineer
Comment: This book outlines hundreds of different routes up all of the Wind's well-known peaks (as well as several not-so-well-know ones). He did a phenomenal job amassing all of this information. There is enough here for a short lifetime of awesome mountain trekking.
Kelsey held no punches with this one. The information Kelsey gives is mean, lean, and straight to the point. Novices beware, this book makes no attempts to come down to anyone's level. This is both its virtue and its vice. Be forewarned, this book is written for those grounded in that arts of route-finding, technical climbing, and alpine survival. It is not a hiking book. If you are uncomfortable with this, either buy a more toned-down Wind River guide, or pick up a book to build your skills like "Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills" and start psyching yourself up for some world class backcountry.
Rating: 5
Summary: A must for the Wind River hiker and mountaineer
Comment: Joe Kelsey has taken the old trail book of Finis Mitchell's and turned it into a Trail and Mountain Guide that leads you to every nook and crany, you would want to go.
Many years before Joe's book, I would hike the Winds with Mitchells book in hand as if I was following an old adventurers pencil notebook. Today, Joe Kelsey's "Wind River Hiking/Climbing Guide" is as necessary as the matches.
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Title: Wind River Trails: A Hiking and Fishing Guide to the Many Trails and Lakes of the Wind River Range in Wyoming by Finis Mitchell ISBN: 0874806267 Publisher: Univ of Utah Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Hiking Wyoming's Wind River Range by Ron Adkison ISBN: 1560444029 Publisher: Falcon Pub. Date: 01 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: A Climber's Guide to the Teton Range (3rd Edition) by Leigh N. Ortenburger, Reynold G. Jackson ISBN: 0898864801 Publisher: Mountaineers Books Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Walking the Winds: A Hiking and Fishing Guide to Wyoming's Wind River Range by Rebecca Woods ISBN: 0964242303 Publisher: Alpenbooks Pub. Date: June, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Teton Classics, 2nd: 50 Selected Climbs in Grand Teton National Park by Richard Rossiter ISBN: 0934641714 Publisher: Falcon Pub. Date: 01 January, 1994 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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