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Hawaii the Big Island Trailblazer: Where to Hike, Snorkel, Surf, Bike, Drive Kindle Edition
(Please note: This is the 3rd edition and 10th printing of this title; more than 50 reviews have been posted on Amazon.)
Nearly twice the size of the rest of Hawaii combined, the Big Island presents a challenge to adventure travelers with limited time. Trailblazer comes to the rescue with its trademark organization and clear directions for . . .
166 hikes and strolls: the peaks of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, the shores of Waipio Valley and Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, rain forests and tropical gardens, waterfalls, petroglyph fields, and the Kona Coast
75 snorkeling and swimming spots including remote hike-to specials
39 surfing spots: boards, bodyboarding, and body surfing
24 bike trails for adventure cyclists: mountain, coastal, forest, pasture
25 campgrounds and rustic cabin hideaways
Hawaii the Big Island Trailblazer also includes . . .
9 maps, a 15-pic color insert, and more than 200 photographs
A Trailblazer Kids section for adventuring famiies
A Best Of section that lets you pick the right activity for the right day
Resource Links with hand-picked accommodations and restaurants,recreational outfitters, transportation, and visitor information Hawaiian culture and history
Museums, attractions and shopping
Driving tours to the Parker Ranch and Kohala Coast, Hilo and the Heritage Coast, and Kona coffee country
Safety tips and trip-planning advice
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateFebruary 25, 2014
- File size13622 KB
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Product details
- ASIN : B00INHXEU0
- Publisher : Diamond Valley Company; 3rd edition (February 25, 2014)
- Publication date : February 25, 2014
- Language : English
- File size : 13622 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 256 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,933,970 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #85 in Big Island Hawaii Travel Books
- #1,034 in Pacific U.S. Regional Travel
- #1,229 in Hiking & Camping Excursion Guides (Kindle Store)
- Customer Reviews:
About the authors
Jerry Sprout, along with his co-author and wife Janine, have spent more than 30 years exploring the trails, beaches, and attractions of the American West. They live in the East Sierra, near the Pacific Crest Trail. Their first book, Alpine Sierra Trailblazer, has been in print for 25 years and covers from the north end of Lake Tahoe to Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite. Their most-recent effort, Range of Light Trailblazer, starts in Tuolumne and covers the Sierra Nevada south to Mount Whitney—as well as the numerous Wilderness Areas to the east, all the way to include Death Valley National Park. Range of Light Trailblazer includes 31 maps and specific driving directions to backroad travel. The book took nine years to produce.
Trailblazer guides (28 books, including new editions) are one of the oldest independently published guidebook series, known for accuracy and a personal touch. Janine is a professional photographer and graphic designer. Jerry is a former newspaper reporter, and novelist. Their skills result in outdoor guides that are beautiful to look at and fun to read—as well as trail-tested
Other books in their Trailblazer Travel Book series: Kauai Trailblazer, Maui Trailblazer, Oahu Trailblazer, Hawaii the Big Island Trailblazer, No Worries Hawaii (a vacation planning guide), Golden Gate Trailblazer (San Francisco and Marin), No Worries Paris, a photographic walking guide.
Janine Sprout, along with her co-author and husband Jerry, have spent more than 30 years exploring the trails, beaches, and attractions of the American West. They live in the East Sierra, near the Pacific Crest Trail. Their first book, Alpine Sierra Trailblazer has been in print for 25 years, and covers from the north end of Lake Tahoe to Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite. Their most-recent effort, Range of Light Trailblazer starts in Tuolumne and covers the Sierra Nevada south to Mount Whitney—as well as the numerous Wilderness Areas all the way to include Death Valley National Park. Range of Light Trailblazer includes 31 maps and specific driving directions to backroad travel. The book took nine years to produce.
Trailblazer guides are one of the oldest independently published guidebook series, known for accuracy and a personal touch.
Janine is a professional photographer and graphic designer. Jerry is a former newspaper reporter, athlete, and novelist. Their skills result in outdoor guides that are beautiful to look at and fun to read. Safety warnings for specific and money-saving tips are also a big plus.
Other books in their Trailblazer Travel Book series: Kauai Trailblazer, Maui Trailblazer, Oahu Trailblazer, Hawaii the Big Island Trailblazer, No Worries Hawaii (a vacation planning guide), Golden Gate Trailblazer (San Francisco and Marin), No Worries Paris, a photographic walking guide. All guides are have multiple editions, and have been in print for more than 20 years.
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We're the type that likes to be prepared when we go somewhere new, finding Big Island info online was overwhelming - where to start and what to believe? After reading this one book, we felt prepared. After visiting and finding our way around the whole island with ease, we felt this book was worth it's weight in Macadamia Nuts.
Recommendation: Buy it and if you can't read the whole thing at least browse it before you go so you know what's in there.
The organization is very confusing. The Big Island is divided up into six chapters. One, called Mauna Kea, mostly covers the Hamakua Coast. Another, called Mauna Loa, strangely includes South Point: a 120 mile drive away from Mauna Loa. The Hilo chapter is mostly about Puna. This peculiar grouping continues at the subchapter level; it's very strange to be sitting with this book in your car at South Point, reading the three pages on South Point, only to realize they're describing hiking trails that are a 30 minute drive away in Kahuku.
There are NO hiking maps in the book. The only maps give an approximate location of where to park your car. The descriptions are insufficient for any long hike, so you need to do additional research. For the Mauna Loa North Pit, this book instructs you to start down the road heading EAST, when you in fact need to start down the road heading WEST. The directions to King Kamehameha Birthplace were so inadequate that I never made it there (I wasn't sure I drove to the correct parking area, and I didn't know which direction "to the right" was; a simple map and compass heading "north" would have solved that).
I did enjoy the historical information, the "talk story" information, and the "what's best" sections. Hawaii is filled with coastal parks; those sections helped quickly sort out which is an ancient pile of ancient rocks, an expert surfing spot, or calm swimming beach. I hope this book gets edited to include the longer hikes Hawaii has to offer with trail descriptions and useful maps.