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| Climbing and Hiking in the Wind River Mountains, 2nd | 
 enlarge | Author: Joe Kelsey
Publisher: Falcon
Category: Book
List Price: $25.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (3 reviews)
Sales Rank: 395951
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 392
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 0934641706
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.87
EAN: 9780934641708
ASIN: 0934641706
Publication Date: January 1, 1994
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Product Description
Technical climbing, hiking and peack bagging routes are described and mapped for this outdoor playground in Wyoming.
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 Mountaineering Book for more than just Mountaineers July 22, 2003
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
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.
 Awesome guide for the experienced mountaineer August 7, 2002
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
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.
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. It 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.
A must for the Wind River hiker and mountaineer June 7, 1998
22 out of 28 found this review helpful
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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