I ordered this book for an upcoming hiking and biking trip in the Arches and Canyonland areas. We are striking out on our own after using a guided tour last fall. We are excited and apprehensive that we will not know where to go. This book is very detailed about the trails and we are now more confident about our adventure. I am glad that I ordered it.

This is a terrific book, with all the information necessary to begin some really interesting hikes. Details on each hikes include a description of the scenery, terrain (with a nice graphic showing the elevation changes throughout a hike), difficulty rating, total distance, time required, type of trip and trail. The details give a hikers perspective on each trail. Sections on backcountry roads, are also useful. The book lacks an index at the end. There are some informative tables in the beginning of the book that describe all the trails and a classification for each. Useful to gauge a hike to your experience level. Tons of pictures and maps.

Overall a very useful guide.

Many people think that the best way to see these two great canyonlands parks is to drive through them. But you will have no sense of these places unless you get out of your car and take a walk. You don't have to be a backpacker to experience these places on foot. Exploring Canyonlands and Arches is a great book for short, medium and long hikes and for finding the hike that is best for you and your physical condition.

This book is great, especially if you're a hiker, but whitewater rafters wont find info in here on Cataract.

I read this book when it first came out -- in 1977 as I was finishing high school. Its cosmopolitan approach to relationships and the sexes was a bit beyond me at the time, but I have come back to this book once or twice.

West covers the same territory that other folks from John Gray to Barbara DeAngelis have tackled much more famously and profitably since. Despite the awful title and some datedness, she still does it better than they, partly because her point of view is more sophisticated to begin with and it doesn't assume the sexes should necessarily accept themselves (as opposed to each other) as we are.

A representative passage: "If I have dwelt at some length on the subject of marriage, I did not mean to suggest that cohabitation is indeed 'the answer,' or that the differences outweigh the similarities. People who congratulate themselves on having escaped the legal trap do not necessarily escape the psychological consequences of marriage. For when we form a pair bond -- meaning we share sex, affection, and domicile with another person, whether of the same or the opposite sex -- we tend to relate the arrangement to the only model we know: the examples and experiences we've been exposed to are those of marriage -- in particular, the marriage of our parents. The pull is always toward following a familiar pattern, and, since we usually follow the path of least resistance (which generally turns out to be the toughest), we may well wind up living by the hidden clauses of the contract we never signed."

Most amusing and provoking, perhaps, is the chapter devoted to sexual friendships (something Letty Cottin Pogrebin pretty much ruled out some years later in _Among Friends : Who We Like, Why We Like Them, and What We Do With Them_), for whose participants she apologetically can find no better term than the semi-facetious "balling buddies."

This book is a quirky personal examination of the issues, not a generally prescriptive discussion of "how we ought to be," and for that reason is a quiet winner.