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Lace up your boots and sample eighty-four of the finest trails in the Canadian Rockies. Let Hiking Yoho, Kootenay, Glacier, and Mt. Revelstoke National Parks be your guide to Canada's best-kept secrets. Explore the spectacular snow-capped mountain peaks, alpine lakes, and Cambrian fossils of Yoho National Park. Hike beside the enormous 55-kilometer-long Rockwall in Kootenay National Park, then take a dip in Floe Lake, the best swimming hole in all Canada. Experience close-up views of some of the more than 400 glaciers that gave Glacier National Park its name. Enjoy a hike in the temperate inland rainforest of Mt. Revelstoke National Park. Use this guide for: up-to-date trail information; accurate directions to popular as well as less-traveled trails; difficulty ratings for each hike; detailed trail maps; zero-impact camping trips. Whether you are a day-tripper or long-distance hiker, old hand or novice, you'll find trails suited to every ability and interest. (6 x 9, 264 pages, b&w photos, maps, charts)Gurney, Michelle is the author of 'Hiking Yoho, Kootenay, Glacier & Mt. Revelstoke National Parks', published 2001 under ISBN 9780762711703 and ISBN 0762711701.
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