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Boater's Guide to Lake Powell : Featuring HIKING, Camping, Geology, History & Archaeology
by Michael R. Kelsey
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Treasure Chest Pubns (1996-08)
ISBN: 0944510108
EAN: 9780944510100
Dewy Decimal #: 910
Paperback: 288 pages
Edition: 3rd
SKU: N3018
Condition: Good
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
This book is a guide to Lake Powell, which has formed behind the Glen Canyon Dam in the middle part of the Colorado River. The dam is located in extreme northern Arizona, near the town of Page, but 99.9% of Lake Powell is in Utah. It has a shoreline of 2900 kms or 1800 miles. The emphasis of this book is on hiking with boater access. Also covered are potential campsites, geology, history of the early pioneers and cattlemen; the ones who came to build trails, look for minerals, and explore. Excerpts from the John W. Powell and the Dominquez & Escalante expedition diaries have been added in the appropriate locations, plus archeological sites and their history are documented using studies from the Universities of Utah and Northern Arizona from the 1950's, before the lake covered many of the sites. There are 43 mapped areas, which show inlets and the canyons above, and hiking and camping information. Shown on these maps are Anasazi ruins, petroglyphs, and other information for mostly day-hiking. All sections of the lake are included, from Cataract Canyon in the upper end, to the San Juan Arm; plus the Escalante River drainage and its many great hiking canyons, and Rainbow Bridge, the one of the largest in the world. There are also lots of great slot canyons with boater access only; these include West Canyon, maybe the best all-around canyon hike on the Colorado Plateau. This 2nd Updated (3rd) Edition has 251 fotographs, including 10 color fotos on the front & back covers.
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Customer Reviews
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Boater's Guide Lake Powell
Rating  (3)
Date: 2008-07-17
Lots of information, pictures and maps. Print is so condensed, it makes it hard to read. Adding a map of Lake Powell with numbered reference squares to the detailed maps would make it easier to use. Not everyone knows all the names of the canyons..., but they know about where they are on the lake.
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Lots of material, but outdated.
Rating (3)
Date: 2007-08-01
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book is chock full of information on Lake Powell, and it's apparent the author spent a lot of time exploring the lake....many years ago.
My family and I just returned from a Lake Powell vacation in July 2007, and most of the areas the author talks about are no longer accessible from the lake, or are unrecognizable, due to the current lake level.
The pictures are obviously dated as evidenced by the outfits visible in the photos.
All in all I'm not sorry I bought the book, and it has tons of facts about the lake and surrounding area, it just needs to be updated.
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Great Resource
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-01-11
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Good details for hiking from your boat and how to find the interesting historic and archaeologic teasures in an already amazing area.
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Full of great information that's impossible to access
Rating (3)
Date: 2005-09-29
5 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
I once read that, "Indexes are among those necessary but never spectacular products of hard as well as skilled work that can sometimes make the difference between a book and good book."
That said, this is a book.
And it needs an index.
It also needs a clearer table of contents, an acceptance that the metric system will never gain popularity in America, fewer photos of the author in tiny shorts, and a complete redesign by someone who understands the value of a clear font and of blank white space between chapters.
These comments could be said of all of Michael Kelsey's guidebooks--all of which are full of facts, maps, and hikes that are indispensible to exploring the Colorado Plateau, and all of which are incredibly hard to find anything in.
I wish I could rate this higher, because these guides really have been helpful to me over the years--especially this one--but a guidebook should be easy to use, and its information should be easily accessible.
I'll keep my fingers crossed for the fifth edition.
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Helpful book
Rating  (4)
Date: 2005-09-09
The emphasis of this book is hiking and is kind of like a boaters guide to hiking canyons. However, It still has lots of usefull information for boaters.
Even though the water levels were allmost 100ft below full on our last visit we still took the authors advice and hiked the narrow slotted canyon at the end of west canyon. This was a highlight of our one week trip and we would have never known about it without this book!
Lake powell is amazingly huge and beutiful. Having this book as a resource was well worth the money and added to the quality of our trip.
It would be nice if there were more books and guides on lake powell. But since this is the only one I found I can't complain much about it.
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