One Best Hike: Grand Canyon Everything You Need to Know to Successfully Hike from the Rim to the River ? and Back

From the rim to the (Colorado) river, this indispensable guide describes the most popular route into the Grand Canyon and addresses the many possible hazards, gives advice on physical conditioning, and includes helpful charts, maps, and GPS waypoints for the best rest points.

From childhood, Elizabeth Wenk has hiked and climbed in the Sierra Nevada with her family. After she started college, she found excuses to spend every summer in the Sierra, with its beguiling landscape, abundant flowers, and near-perfect weather. During those summers, she worked as a research assistant for others and completed her own Ph.D. thesis research on the effects of rock type on alpine plant distribution and physiology. But much of the time, she hikes simply for leisure. Wanting to explore every bit of the Sierra, she has hiked thousands of on- and off-trail miles and climbed nearly 500 peaks in the mountain range. She recently relocated Australia with her family.