Hiking Vancouver Island: A Guide to Vancouver Island's Greatest Hiking Adventures

by Shannon Cowan and Lissa M. Cowan

Book Overview

Outdoor enthusiasts Shannon and Lissa Cowan share their intimate knowledge of the best-loved hikes on Vancouver Island. Featuring more than 50 trails on Canada's west coast, this one-stop guide to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762723505
• ISBN13: 9780762723508
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: FalconGuide
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

buckeye mary

Vancover Island is a magical place!!! Go there and take this book and explore it on your own.. You will always dream of going back and this book has many trails all over!

Best Vancouver Island Hiking Trails

I highly recommend this hiking trail guide book and I've been hiking and leading guided nature hiking tours of Vancouver Island for the last 12 years. The trails are a selection of the best ones for each area and not just some boring logging road. The descriptions are detailed, clear and accurate and the maps are great. It's true that most hiking guides are outdated shortly after publication, (due to the time it takes to research and put out a book), but the maps and descriptions are still a valuable starting point. Roads, trail heads, landmarks, signs, and even street names can change. Avalanches, rock slides, river erosion, wind storms, clear cutting, forest fires and trail maintenance committments also can change over time. At the time of this review, this book and Hiking Trails (Volume One, Victoria and area) by the Vancouver Island Hiking Trails Society, are still the most recent books for Vancouver Island trails. The book also recommends checking with local trail authories for any changes and picking up recent detailed area maps from local tourist centers or forestry companies and provides map names where available. Park trails tend to be more stable and trail reports can be found on park websites (also provided).

good resource

I found this guide book really helpful and i definitely recommend it for anyone wanting to do multiple hikes on the island. Enjoy your trip!