Afoot and Afield in Los Angeles
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Afoot and Afield in Los Angeles
by Authors:
Jerry Schad
Released: June, 2003
ISBN: 0899972675
Paperback
Sales Rank: 46,118
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Customer Review #1:
 Wonderful descriptions, but too wordy for use on the trail
This book covers most of the important hiking areas in Los Angeles County. There isnt room in the book for every hike at each of these areas (partly due to the long descriptions of the hikes which are in the book) but the author covers a good variety at each site, including most of the best hikes.The descriptions of the hikes are wonderful (such as the mention of the "Darth Vader house" at Solstice Canyon) but are a bit too wordy to follow while on the trail. You will definitely need a separate map, as the maps in this book are too small and lack necessary detail. For many of the shorter hikes in the Santa Monica Mountains or Griffith Park you can find nice maps in the book Day Hikes Around Los Angeles, which makes a nice companion to this book. For longer hikes, get a good topographical map. (Watch out, some of the USGS maps of the LA area are pretty bad, including many of the maps of the Santa Monica mountains.)
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Customer Review #2:
It will get you there.
A good source. Missing many many hikes in the L.A. area. Fewer words and more hikes would have been better, but this is good and accurate. You will not get lost and if you do not know L.A. you can see some amazing things.
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Customer Review #3:
 Buy it, Keep it, Live by it
This book is indispensible to me. I moved down the LA area after living in a rural forested area of northern california for many years. Needless to say - I greatly missed the outdoors, and I got this book to get acquanted with my new surroundings. I try to go on a hike every other weekend, and right along with me is this rumpled, wrinkled, dogeared, inked-on book. There are hikes for everyone, some appropriate for children - some catering only to the experienced hiker, and everyone in between. So, wether I feel like going on a 2 mile hike - or a 12 mile hike....this book is straped to my daypack. The author has covered every hike in good detail - there are, of course, a few exceptions - but in general, the directions and writing are reliable. He also provides interesting histories of some trails, appropriate times of the year for maximum enjoyment, and little hints on things to pay attention to or watch out for. Buy this book - then get out and use it.
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