Colorado's Guide to Deer hunting is fairly good to get some ideas on where to start for some one who has never hunted colorado. However this book does not contain a lot of information. It does give some information on a few public hunting areas. But it fails to mention that in some of these "public areas" that permison is needed first to hunt the areas. In the books inability to mention this it also leaves out any contact information to find out about the areas. This book is out dated. Some of the information in it is not up to date with current regulations. It does touch on some of the very basics for hunting big game speceis but that is it the basics. It is a very vague book and could use a lot mor info put into it. It does not so much "guide" you as point you in a general derection.

This is a decent guidebook to Colorado; focusing on places to see rather than meals or lodging. However, it would be more properly titled "Colorado: ON the Beaten Path", since it generally spends its time on the most popular attractions.

The description of The Colorado Plateau was appealing as I enjoy visiting our nations National Parks. This book met the minimum criteria described on the cover of the book. It was a fairly complete guide to the National Parks. I was hoping to gain and develop my own impressions from the impressions and experience of the author and thus develop a sense of those places I'd like to visit most. The book also provides historical information for many of the areas, which is interesting. The author is also very opinionated concerning land use which to me are political issues. I found this very distracting, having to skip paragraphs to get back to the information this book advertised it was all about. Also, the book could have done a better job of providing maps that showed the locations and routes into the Parks it was discussing. I found myself having to keep a map close by of each of the States that were discussed, something that could have easily been presented better in each section of the book. Otherwise, the organization of the content of the book was very good.

This book contains lots of information about the geology of the Colorado Plateau... the problem is that it's incredibly difficult to read, even for folks like me who studied geology in the Southwest. For one thing, it provides little overview information, which would help introduce key concepts and tie them together. (Of course, tying key concepts together might be easier if the author were comfortable with plate tectonics as a driver for the structural features of the region... but that's another story). The fact that this book is chock full of mistakes--for example, referencing figures that don't actually exist--doesn't help, either. In fact, I generally found the illustrations to be more confusing than helpful. They never appear in places where they'd actually help you understand the text, and when they do appear, they're often confusing because they lack labels... or, worse yet, they are not discussed at all. It's too bad; with a good editorial and peer review, this book could have been a worthwhile reference. I definitely would not recommend it for the lay audience.

This is a useful guidebook for anyone interested in climbing Colorado's Centennial (100 highest) or Bicentennial (200 highest) peaks. (I've hiked half of the Bicentennials.) For those who aren't hardened peak-baggers, "Colorado's High Thirteeners" is still a useful source of information about the state's less-visited high summits.

Garratt and Martin's route descriptions are generally adequate, if somewhat lacking in detail. The authors largely ignore the scenic highlights of their hikes, such as the spectacular Zapata Falls along the way to Twin Peaks and Unnamed 13,660.

Although I have made great use of this book, as the weathered, note-filled copy in my backpack could attest, I find it somewhat inferior to the fourteener guidebooks written by Gerry Roach, Louis Dawson, and Walter Borneman & Lyndon Lampert. I would love to see an updated and improved version of this guide with more information.

Here are some of the revisions I'd like to see:

1) More photographs of the peaks, indicating what month they were taken in.

2) Topographical maps of the routes.

3) More detailed descriptions of the hikes, both to aid in route-finding and to point out some of the highlights of the hikes.

4) Yosemite Decimal ratings of the difficulty of each route.

5) A "classic hike" rating ala Gerry Roach to indicate which hikes the authors like best.

6) More alternate routes to some of the peaks.

Deborah George has written a fairly comprehensive guidebook detailing most of the hot springs of Colorado. She gives in-depth history of the springs and interesting facts. _Colorado hot springs_ Entries should be approached with care; George has fallen into a guidebook trap of only saying good things in her book. From her glowing descriptions of each spring, it is very hard to separate the great springs from the mediocre ones. The few negative things she has to say are vastly outweighed by the positive thus making the entries far from unbiased. Of course, everyone has favorites and is keen to embellish a bit, but every spring in Colorado is George's favorite.
George's book also lacks reliable directions and locations. While this isn't usually a problem for developed hot springs, the undeveloped springs have proved a bit harder to find. The entry for Penny Springs has quite good directions up until the last moment, advising Hot Springers to watch for a "well used turnout [with] a very small 'C.R. 11' sign." Locating the 'well used' turnout proved to be quite a challenge requiring three laps up and down the road and another guide book. Upon closer inspection, the C.R 11 sign appears to no longer exist. This type of experience is typical of George's directions.
Deborah George provides history, folklore and some interesting facts concerning Colorado's hot springs, but don't rely on her opinion of what is good because to her they're all great.

If there is a major error in Tom Wolf's deeply researched work on the Sangre de Cristo mountains, it must be the chronic overestimation of human potential. He makes a case for a new sort of "management" of the mountain range, one that places control among locals. However, having evolved over millions of years without human assistance into marvelous things, mountain don't need management.

Perhaps what Wolf intends is to better manage the people who come to the mountains. That is a worthy goal, as long as the people to be managed are wielding destructive devices such as cars or chain saws. But if he means, as I think he does, that everybody who wants to take a walk in the mountains should pay five or ten dollars in "user fees", then I oppose him enthusiastically.

Such a course seems to me to be needlessly commercial, taxing and selling activities which are as basic and essential as breathing. He has doubts about wilderness status for the Sangres, because of the lack of revenue from so-designated land. But what is this foregone revenue to have been put toward? Management, in a word. He wants to take the levers of control out of the hands of what he calls the Iron Triangle (politicians, special interests, bureaucrats), and place them into the hands of a trust composed of local ranchers, community activists, forest rangers, shampoo tycoons, biologists, economists...some sort of Iron Polyhedron. This body would act sensibly when a crisis such as insect or disease epidemic arose. One can assume there would be controlled burns, controlled wood cutting (going under the euphemism "harvest"), controlled hunting (going under the euphemism "harvest"), and controlled entry into the controlled wilderness area.

Now, I have nothing against hunting or lumbering or even wildfires. All are necessary or desirable in their time. But the notion of the sand dunes being ruined because of increased hikers, or of valleys being inundated in a sea of elk droppings, or of forests being denuded by out-of-control herds of deer are far fetched. Similarly, Wolf's assertion that at the end of the last Ice Age, primitive hunters, without the use of guns or horses or sport utility vehicles, indeed without anything but "new flint technology", were able to drive into extinction 32 genera of post-Ice Age mammals strains credibility. Just as we should cast a jaundiced eye on any of society's plans to "save" nature, we also should guard against giving mankind too much of the blame for the ebb and flow of natural cycles.

Wilderness status for the highest reaches of the range simply protects it from the exploitation of the sort Wolf detail. If one can take any lesson from his account of the various follies visited on the range, it is that no plan can benefit the mountains as much as leaving them alone. And yes, I consider hordes of recreational users who are not shooting anything or cutting anything to be leaving the mountains alone. Crowds of people, if they ever do materialize in the roadless areas, will be as benign a presence as a herd of buffalo. And I'll gladly take 20 random flyovers by jet fighters in place of every No Trespassing sign put up by the so-called "Ranch for Wildlife" crowd. The former are thrilling and harmless, the latter oppressive.

One must take the hat off to Wolf for his monumental effort, however. Who would have thought so much could be written about a backwater, and that it could be linked in so many ways to the mainstream? A greater effort should have been made in the way of editing so as to correct mistakes such as on p.80, where he states "The Sangres stretch from the 42nd to the 41st parallel." These coordinates would put them in Wyoming, giving the lie to the title's claim that they are Colorado's. Also, on p.265 Steve McNichols is mistakenly named as the governor of Colorado in 1975. Dick Lamm was governor at that time. But these are trifling errors...

I was quite impressed by the fact that a book of this nature existed. It outlines the mecanics of a language fairly unknown in the world scene. But buyer beware Mixteco is a language that changes from city to city and even from family to family. Get this book only if you plan to go to San Juan Colorado> FOr it will be foriegn to anyone not living there and claiming Mixteco as his mother tounge,

"She Said Yes" is a good book. It is about an unusual experience with a normal person who thinks nothing can happen to her daughter. Then the unthinkable to her happens. This is an inspirational book and it tells you to do what you feel is right. If you do this you should have no regrets. This book was a very interesting experience because the author is a normal person.

This book is a mixed bag. It can't decide whether it is a history book, a guide book, a touring book, or a floater's book. It is interesting, and I am glad I got it, but it doesn't serve the purpose that I was looking for of providing good information on river travel. Lots of information on river history and early travelers, but if you were looking for a river guide you are going to have to suppliment