Day Hiking Mount St. Helens

Finally, a Mountaineers book that has the hike rating in the Hikes At A Glance! I love the Mountaineers Day Hiking series, but it has always been a pain looking up each rating individually. Problem solved!Excellent information, map, and table, as usual for this series.

I like the way it is organized by areas. There are many trail options in each section of the area. It can take significant amount of time to get from one side of the park to another, so trails that may be geographically close can require a long drive from trail head to trail head. Planning your visit by area enables you to maximize the time you have for your visitWe are planning to spend one day on the north side of the mountain, day two on the southside, and day 3 climbing the summit. The organization of the book makes it easy to plan each day and find all of the options to consider based on where you will be spending your time. The summary of each trail with ratings, distance, and elevation gain is very handy.

This guide book is easy to use and gives excellent trail descriptions with directions of how to get to the trailheads included. It is arranged by region with an overview map at the beginning. A chart of "Hikes at a Glance" provides a quick referance regarding difficulty, bike use, kid friendliness, dog friendliness, and wheelchair accessability. After checking out the overview map and the "Hikes at a Glance" I was able to easily narrow down the list of hikes that appealed to me and then read the detailed descriptions for those hikes. The book includes some nice photos that give a good representation of the terraine and scenary.

I wanted to know more about hikes around the mountain, and this book provided that.

What a great resource for hiking the Mt. St. Helens area. The book goes into a lot of detail about trails that you simply won't find anywhere else. I'm going to be purchasing their other day hiking books for the Pacific Northwest!

the descriptions are right on and the imformation fantastic. Welll written

I'm amazed how many different hikes are surrounded Mt St Helens. I don't know if I will ever hike all of them but I now know they are out there.

Great book for a region that's not written about enough.