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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Active outdoor pursuits > Walking, hiking, trekking
It's Time to Take a Hike in Richmond, Virginia! The best way to
experience Richmond is by hiking it! Get outdoors with Virginian
authors Philip Riggan and Nathan Lott, with the full-color edition
of 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Richmond. A perfect blend of popular
trails and hidden gems, the selected trails transport you to scenic
overlooks, wildlife hot spots, and historical settings that renew
your spirit and recharge your body. Explore the urban wilderness of
the James River Park System in the heart of the city. Trek across
the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains at Walnut Creek Park.
Marvel at the pristine shores of the Potomac at Crow's Nest Natural
Area Preserve. Immerse yourself in Civil War history at Richmond
National Battlefield Park. Admire views of the Appomattox River
from the High Bridge trestle. With this book as your guide, you'll
learn about the area and experience nature through 60 of the River
City's best hikes! Each hike description features key at-a-glance
information on distance, difficulty, scenery, traffic, hiking time,
and more, so you can quickly and easily learn about each trail.
Detailed directions, GPS-based trail maps, and elevation profiles
help to ensure that you know where you are and where you're going.
Tips on nearby activities further enhance your enjoyment of every
outing. Whether you're a local looking for new places to explore or
a visitor to the area, 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Richmond provides
plenty of options for a couple hours or a full day of adventure,
all within about an hour from Richmond and the surrounding
communities.
It's Time to Take a Hike in Salt Lake City, Utah! The best way to
experience Salt Lake City is by hiking it! Get outdoors with local
author Greg Witt, with the full-color edition of 60 Hikes Within 60
Miles: Salt Lake City. A perfect blend of popular trails and hidden
gems, the selected trails transport you to scenic overlooks,
wildlife hot spots, and historical settings that renew your spirit
and recharge your body. Explore the deep caverns of Timpanogos Cave
National Monument and the gargantuan peaks of the High Uintas
Wilderness. Relive the experiences of Utah's early settlers on the
Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail, and surround yourself with
the brilliant wildflowers of Little Cottonwood Canyon and the big
game at Big Cottonwood Canyon. You'll learn about the area and
experience nature through 60 of the city's best hikes! Each hike
description features key at-a-glance information on distance,
difficulty, scenery, traffic, hiking time, and more, so you can
quickly and easily learn about each trail. Detailed directions,
GPS-based trail maps, and elevation profiles help to ensure that
you know where you are and where you're going. Tips on nearby
activities further enhance your enjoyment of every outing. Whether
you're a local looking for new places to explore or a visitor to
the area, 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Salt Lake City provides plenty
of options for a couple hours or a full day of adventure, all
within about an hour from Salt Lake City and the surrounding
communities.
Suitable for both professionals and pet owners, this book covers
all common behavioural problems pertaining to the cat.
Loch Ness, with its legendary monster, is the most famous of all
lochs. It holds more water than all the lakes of England and Wales
combined and the countryside around it features an equally great
variety of walks, with more waymarked trails and easy routes
suitable for families than many other parts of the Highlands.
Further north lies the magnificent Glen Affric - Scotland's most
beautiful glen. This is a wonderful area of the Highlands for
walkers, having the highest mountains north of the Great Glen but
also some splendid lower-level and forest walks. To the east is the
fertile Black Isle, packed with charming villages and some fine
beaches, whilst further north still is Dingwall, a gateway to the
spectacular Northern Highlands.
The streets of London are inexhaustible in their tales they have to
tell. Following the success of Stephen Millar's first three
volumes, London's Hidden Walks Vol.4 introduces twelve new walks
that will surprise and entertain the intrepid explorer. With this
book in hand, readers can find the ruins of a church that
Shakespeare would have visited, the hotel where the assassin of
Martin Luther King Jnr. laid low, a pipe containing a lost London
river and the venues Taylor Swift used in a video shoot. With
fascinating stories, detailed maps, 400 full-colour photographs,
cafes, pubs and places of interest, London's Hidden Walks Vol.4
brings London's streets to life. The book can be enjoyed in its own
right or in conjunction with the first three volumes, which are now
established bestsellers. * 12 illustrated walks * details on the
best cafes & pubs * information on local attractions, museums
and galleries * maps - to help you navigate
OS Explorer is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map and is
recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities such as walking,
horse riding and off-road cycling. The series provides complete GB
coverage and can now be used in all weathers thanks to OS Explorer
- Active, a tough, versatile version of OS Explorer. The OS
Explorer Active range of OL maps includes a digital version of the
paper map, accessed through the OS smartphone app, OS Maps.
England's most popular walk runs for 184 miles (296 km)
across the north of England from St Bees on the Irish Sea to
Robin Hood's Bay on the North Sea. It passes through three National
Parks - the Lake District, Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors -
with fine scenery, welcoming pubs and plenty of accommodation.
Devised by the legendary Wainwright, the Coast to Coast attracts
walkers worldwide. The new edition is richly illustrated with 150
photographs, many by professional landscape photographer Karen
Frenkel. There are 25 pages of colourful new mapping (scale
1:55,000) with cumulative distances, a 25-metre contour interval
and points of interest marked. Each section has its own altitude
profile, with details of where refreshments are available. Much
detail has been added to route descriptions, in many places
clarified by extra photographs with custom overlays to clarify
route detail. Major route options have been added and mapped, and
many updates made. The format is lightweight, robust and rainproof.
This attractive and cleverly structured guide gives walkers ten of
the finest walks through the historic landscapes of the Lake
District National Park in a popular pocketable format. With clear
information, an overview and introduction for each walk, expertly
written numbered directions, large scale Ordnance Survey maps,
superb, eye-grabbing panoramic photographs, and interpretation of
points of interest along the way, these guides set a new standard
in clarity and ease-of-use. Featured walks include: Castlerigg
stone circle, Moor Divock stone circle, Carrock Fell hillfort,
Hardknott Roman fort, Viking Gosforth, Medieval Shap Abbey,
Kentmere pele tower, Catbells Elizabethan mines, Stott Park Bobbin
Mill, and Victorian Loughrigg Tarn.
The best way to experience Albuquerque is by hiking it! Get
outdoors with local authors and hiking experts David Ryan and
Stephen Ausherman with the new full-color edition of 60 Hikes
Within 60 Miles: Albuquerque. These trails transport you to scenic
overlooks, wildlife hot spots, and historical settings that renew
your spirit and recharge your body. Each hike description features
key information on length, hiking time, difficulty, configuration,
scenery, traffic, trail surface, and accessibility, as well as
information on the history and natural history of the area.
Detailed trail maps and elevation profiles, along with clear
directions to the trailheads and trailhead GPS data, help to ensure
that you always know where you are and where you're going. Tips on
nearby activities further enhance your enjoyment of every outing.
Whether you're a local looking for new places to explore or a
visitor to the area, 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Albuquerque provides
plenty of options for a couple hours or a full day of adventure,
all within about an hour from Albuquerque and the surrounding
communities.
Guidebook to over 70 walking routes in the hills of Loch Lomond and
the Trossachs National Park. The routes range from 1 to 17 miles,
and are clearly graded for distance and difficulty, as well as
dividing between low-level, mid-level and mountain walks. Each of
the area's 21 Munros are included, as well as plenty of Corbetts
and Grahams. From short, loch-side strolls suitable for all
walkers, to long, challenging mountain routes with rocky
scrambling, including all three peaks of the Cobbler, the Loch
Lomond and Trossachs hills have plenty to offer. The walks in this
guide are divided into areas: the Trossachs, Callander and Loch
Lubnaig, Balquhidder and Lochearnhead, Crianlarich to Inveraran,
Tyndrum, Ben Lomond, Loch Lomond West, Arrochar Alps and Glen Croe
to Loch Goil. This guidebook includes plenty of background
information on the area, practical information on getting to and
around the region's walks, advice on accommodation, what equipment
to take, when to go, as well as interesting details on the schist
rock that makes the hills, and important information on access in
the hills and on Scottish estates.
For the best adventures, use the best map. Our latest hiking
research on Tenerife has resulted in new editions of Walk! Tenerife
and Tenerife Hikers' Super-Durable Maps. Thanks to Jan Kostura's
research we have several new hiking adventures described in detail
in Walk! Tenerife. Jan's gps records of his research for new routes
and updating of current routes has provided the detailed
information to produce our new fourth edition of Tenerife Hiker's
Super-Durable Maps.Note that Tenerife Hikers' Super-Durable Maps is
a collection of four 30k scale map sections on a double sided sheet
of 840mm by 600mm which folds up to 220mm by 120mm. It is not a map
of all of Tenerife. You will find 30k scale maps covering Valle de
Orotava, West, Anaga and Adeje/Arona - Teide printed on a double
sided map sheet. We have combined two previous maps into a single
map section; El Portillo and Valle de Orotava (and all the area
between) is now a single map section covering the Orotava Valley
from Aguamansa to beyond El Portillo and it also includes 4 new
walking routes from Walk! Tenerife (2017) including the GR131 El
Portillo to La Caldera, and two ascents of Montana Limon.Our 'Las
Canadas-Adeje/Arona' map is now extended northwards beyond Teide so
it now also includes Pico del Teide, Montana Blanca, Pico Viejo and
Montana Rajada as well as the full Las Canadas crater. The 'West'
map includes the latest TF-1 road along with the rerouting of three
walking routes in this region. Not a lot changes in the Anaga
except that Jan's research has produced three new hiking routes;
Igueste - Chamorga, Igueste - Semaforo, and Cruz del Carmen - Punta
del Hidalgo.Tenerife Hikers' Super-Durable Maps is produced using
our 'Tour & Trail' level of detail ranging from major roads to
secondary roads to minor roads to streets and camino rural narrow
country roads, plus dirt roads and walking trails.Altitude
background colouring is designed to clearly show the altitude range
when travelling across the regions by car or on foot. 100 metre and
50 metre contours are clearly shown on the map along with a large
number of individual height points and all of the official 'Trig'
points. Our useful symbol range includes miradors, picnic areas,
petrol stations, bar/restaurants and parking areas where you can
pull off the road safely. You will easily identify springs, caves,
sports grounds, cemeterys, churchs, chapels, lighthouses, towers
and forts, camping areas, wind turbines, hotels and those all
important information offices. Our 'Special Concertina Map Fold'
makes Tour & Trail Maps easy to use, and more importantly easy
to fold back to their handy pocket size.'Super-Durable' means you
get a map printed on Polyart with 100% oxygenation inks by a UK
leading map printer. This gives you a map that feels like silk but
will stand up to the roughest treatment of outdoor adventuring and
yet fold up like new at the end of your adventure. Polyart is made
of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and is therefore 100%
recyclable in category 2 HDPE. For more information see the Polyart
website. Digital editions of Tour & Trail Maps for phone apps
and Garmin users are available on the dwgwalking website.
This attractive and cleverly structured guidebook gives dog walkers
access to 20 of the finest walks in the stunningly beautiful county
of Cheshire. With clear information, an introduction for each walk,
and simple, easy-to-read maps, this beautiful book will appeal to
all who want to venture out into the countryside with their dogs.
The area covered includes: Tatton Hall, Lyme Park, Marbury Park,
Macclesfield Forest, Delamere and Beeston. The walks are for all
levels of fitness and abilities, from short walks to more
challenging hill walks. Having no stiles ensures a hassle free walk
for both dog and owner. Both authors are experienced walkers,
qualified in mountain leadership and countryside management. This
is another book in a series of Countryside Dog Walking books
currently being developed throughout the UK.
Built almost 2,000 years ago by the Roman occupiers of Britain,
Hadrian's Wall is one of the most famous and identifiable World
Heritage Sites. When two old friends, one American and one British,
reunited to trek the length of the Wall, they reminisced about the
past while sharing apprehension about the future. This memoir of
their coast-to-coast voyage examines Roman history, drawing
parallels between the fall of the Roman Empire and the recent
political developments and uncertainties in the United Kingdom and
the United States. The authors also share their often humorous
encounters with locals they met along the way while hiking in
incessant rain.
The OS Explorer range includes a digital version of the paper map,
accessed through the OS smartphone app, OS Maps.
Power walking, also known as fitness or speed walking, is gaining
popularity as an aging population looks for workout options that
are good for their bodies and good for their wallets. This book
includes expert tips and techniques for starting or expanding a
power walking practice. Covering the author's journey from
non-athlete to dedicated power walker, it is entertaining,
motivational and jam-packed with information. Here, power walking
practice is contextualized through the author's goal to complete a
half marathon in each of the United States as she approaches 60
years old. The journey includes encounters with sketchy
porta-potties and terrifying mini-planes, confessions of dubious
road-trip food choices and tales of finish lines reached through
sheer determination-all told with wit and wisdom. Part travelogue,
part power walking guidebook, this engaging text will entertain,
motivate and enlighten readers who are looking to start a fitness
program or change up their workout routine.
OS Explorer is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map and is
recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities such as walking,
horse riding and off-road cycling. The series provides complete GB
coverage and can now be used in all weathers thanks to OS Explorer
- Active, a tough, versatile version of OS Explorer. The OS
Explorer Active range now includes a digital version of the paper
map, accessed through the OS smartphone app, OS Maps.
This book explains to the hillwalker, in easy to understand but
accurate terms, how geology has shaped the landscape of South
Wales. A selection of 16 guided walks is used to illustrate this in
terms of what can be seen on the ground. The hills, valleys and
coasts of South Wales are some of Britain's most celebrated and
iconic landscapes. The coasts of Gower and Pembroke, and the
shapely peaks of the Brecon Beacons are especially popular. These
varied landscapes reflect a highly diverse geology. From the
rolling hills of Mid and West Wales, the spectacular heights of the
Brecon Beacons, the rocky outcrops of Fforest Fawr and Mynydd Du,
the valleys and moors of 'the coalfield', to the delightful scenery
of the southern and western coasts - each has its own fascinating
geological story to tell. This book is for the walker who sets out
among these hills and coasts and who wants to learn a bit more
about the forces that forged this landscape. The first part is an
account of the geological history of South Wales, while the second
contains 16 walks where you can see evidence of the geology, along
with some of the most outstanding scenery of the region. The author
has concentrated on what you can see as you walk around the hills,
pointing to conspicuous, easily seen features in rocks and the
overall shape of the terrain in accounting for the present day
landscape.Also in this Rock Trails series by Paul Gannon are
Lakeland, Peak District, Scottish Highlands and Snowdonia.
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