Description
Vail’s best-selling summer book:
The Vail Hiker, now in a new color edition for 2012, is the best-selling summer book in Colorado’s Vail Valley, according to National Public Radio Weekend Edition Sunday with Linda Wertheimer. The popular guidebooks offers 50 historic hiking, snowshoe and ski trails new Vail, Minturn, Avon Beaver Creek, Edwards, Eagle, and in the Eagles Nest and Holy Cross Wilderness. Trails to secluded beauty: Trail destinations include: Alpine Lakes Wildlife Retreats Waterfalls Fishing Lakes Wildflower Havens Historic High Passes Ghost Towns Cool Forest Footpaths.
Ability levels and accurate information: Trails for every level of ability, from advanced to families with children, provide back country experiences for all hikers. Trails range from easy to strenuous. Difficulty rating for each trail is clearly defined. Hikers can rely on accurate, up-to-date information with easy -to-follow trail-guide information. The guidebook provides trail-marked topographic maps with each trail description.
Benefits for Hikers: Wildflower enthusiasts will find notes on what kind of flowers bloom at what time of the summer, plus photographs of blossoms the trail offers.
Hikers will discover a half-dozen new trails in the 2012 edition of The Vail Hiker. Now in its sixth edition, the book for the first time has been published in an all-new, full-color version. The updated and expanded book has added a half-dozen new hikes, a group of fishing lakes for anglers and special Hikes for Tykes routes for kids.
Award-winning Author: Mary Ellen Gilliland hiked, snow-shoed and skied the Eagle County trails to create the new book. She shot new color photographs and checked routes for updated color maps. With 35 years of hiking experience in the area, she is the region’s recognized hiking expert.
Gilliland, a historian and hiker, has written ten area books, including The New Summit Hiker for Summit County, Colorado. She weaves the history of each trail into The Vail Hiker’s narrative.
Special Features: The Vail Hiker has a lay-flat, fold-over wire binding, a water-protective laminated cover and a fold-out Eagle County map showing all 50 trail locations. The 126-page book, which doubles as a winter guide, gives winter users 32 snow trails.
