Foghorn Outdoors Northern California Biking: 150 of the Best Road and Trail Rides

by Ann Marie Brown

Book Overview

Devoted campers, hikers, boaters, anglers, bikers, and golfers agree: Foghorn Outdoors guidebooks are essential for anyone who wants to spend less time planning and more time enjoying the outdoors.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566914221
• ISBN13: 9781566914222
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Rick Steves
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Excellent!

Gobs of information! This book didn't leave me on an abandoned trial that is blocked by a new housing development like SOME BOOKS. Recommended!

An excellent resource

This book organizes all of its road rides and off-road rides together in 8 geographic areas in Northern California, and includes difficulty ratings, distance, time, elevation profile, map, directions and useful descriptions for each ride. What I like best is the author's lists of "best" bike rides in 12 different categories, such as Best Oceanfront Rides, Best Rides for Wildlife Viewing, and Best Rides to Waterfalls, among others. It covers more routes than any other bike guide I've seen or owned.

very handy indeed

I am an avid biker (http://www.sujee.net/outdoors/biking/) and this book has found a permanant place in my camel-back! I have read/bought my share of biking books in Northern california. But I liked this one better b/cA) rides are clearly classified mountain or road : this seems trivial, but more than once I had turned up to a trail with my road bike, just to find out the trail is not paved / dirt.B) Every ride has clearly marked 'how to get there' 'difficulty' and 'elevation maps', etc.C) All rides are neatly catogorized into locations and a very easy to use reference / Table of ContentsD) Plenty of rides for every level. Most of them have a little 'insider tips' as well.