Backpacking in Alaska

By Jim Dufresne

Book Overview

This practical guide to hiking in Alaska has everything you need to know to safely experience the Alaskan wilderness on foot. It covers the most outtanding trails from Ketchikan in the Southeast to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0864422660
• ISBN13: 9780864422668
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Lonely Planet
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

This is the Best Backpacking Guide for Alaska!

3 mos. in Alaska and I used this book extensively! I plotted numerous trips from multi-day trips to long "all day" hikes with the aid of this book. I did about a 3rd of the trails in this book (maybe more) and the trail descriptions are accurate. Additional information regarding lodging was extremely useful....... If you are planning a backpacking trip in Alaska, buy this book! It would have been difficult finding backpacking information without it.

Honest, Off-the-beaten-path advice, Great book

Jim Dufresne does a great job in outlining excellent hikes to take throughout Alaska. We used this book in a number of areas. He gives the backpacker's view of things, not the typical tourist's. Mr. Dufresne also wrote a great book on Glacier Bay. The only guidebook we used to kayak the area. We would have never done that area had we not come acrossed his book in Michigan where he is from.