Colorado Mountain Club Pack Guide The Best Vail Valley Hikes

The year-around guide to 20 of the best Vail Valley hikes and snowshoe routes - Trails for all ability levels, each offering something special for the visitor or local alike. - Detailed directions and full-color maps to help you find your way - A guidebook that easily fits in your pack or back pocketThe Vail Valley is the home of great downhill skiing, but it has also become a year-around playground for trail running, golf, cycling, tennis, fly fishing, hiking, and snowshoeing.As part of the Colorado Mountain Club's best-selling Pack Guide series, The Best Vail Valley Hikes and Snowshoe Routes explores the more popular and some of the lesser known hiking and snowshoe routes in the valley. Most trailheads are within an hour's drive of Vail Valley and its namesake ski area. From the mysteriously enchanting Gore Range to the evocative Holy Cross Ridge, and beyond, these hikes represent the best of what the Vail Valley can offer the hiker and snowshoer.Easy hikes, such as Shrine Ridge and Holy Cross Overlook on Vail Pass, are wheelchair accessible and offer a great adventure for kids and grandparents. Moderate hikes, including Lonesome Lake and Piney River Falls, are somewhat more demanding and offer splendid views. For a more difficult, all-day excursion, experienced hikers can ascend to the Tuhare Lakes, outside of Minturn.The authors from The Gore Range Group of the Colorado Mountain Club are environmentalists, guides, and volunteer hike leaders with several hundred years of combined outdoor experience. They have hiked and snowshoed the routes and wrote, photographed, and mapped The Best Vail Valley Hikes and Snowshoe Routes.