Day Hikes from the River: A Guide to 100 Hikes from Camps on the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park

Book Description
In DAY HIKES FROM THE RIVER SECOND EDITION, author, hiker and river runner Tom Martin offers river runners through Grand Canyon National Park a new text on exploring Grand Canyon National Park from the Colorado River. There are 100 hikes in the book, up from 75 in the first edition. Besides a description of each hike, the text includes the best camps to stage the hike from. Information on winter and summer sun exposure, along with pertinent pull-in information is also provided where needed. Each hike description includes images from USGS topo maps with the hike clearly marked on the map. This book is for the river runner who wants to increase their options for activities and gain a greater appreciation of what rafting in Grand Canyon has to offer, besides running great whitewater. This guide identifies many camps that are not listed in any other guidebook. This book is intended to be used by river runners to expand their knowledge base beyond the most heavily visited attraction sites on the river. While this book includes every heavily visited site on the River, it expands river runners options to include lots more wonderful places to visit in the most Grand of Canyons.

From the Publisher
Tom is a happily-driven man. He gets claustrophobic in the bottom of the Canyon and is compelled to find out where any deer trail, crack or creek might lead to. He started out writing hike descriptions for the Grand Canyon Private Boaters Association newsletter, The Waiting List, and got ahead of himself. The first edition containing 75 hikes is sold out now and we're very pleased to have published the second edition. Tom's idiosyncratic spelling and grammar has only marginally improved over the last three years but his onwards and upwards approach to hiking the Canyon is as strong as ever.

From the Author
Ever wonder where Harry McDonald carved his initials on a tree during the ill fated 1889 Stanton Brown Expedition through Grand Canyon? Did you know about the hike out to the Rim at South Canyon? How about the short hike to the petroglyphs at Tanner, or the location of the water jug filling spot at Phantom Ranch? Do you know there are 3 pull-in spots to access Matkatamiba Canyon? Ever wonder what the hike to Mooney Falls in Havasu is like, or what the winter sun potential at Tuckup is like? Did you know there are some amazing narrows at 193 Mile, or what the summer shade at Parashant is like? Have you seen the Rock Art at 202 Mile, and did you know there's a water source just a few miles downriver from there? Just a few of the things going through Tom's head as he wrote the first edition...

About the Author
Tom Martin has been hiking in Grand Canyon from river rafting trips since 1969. He has participated on scientific rafting trips as a field technician, worked as a commercial river guide, and participated on private rafting trips. With four first ascents through the Redwall Limestone and numerous ascents of Grand Canyon named buttes in day hikes from the river, the author has hiked enough of Grand Canyon to be able to say "Of the cat that is Grand Canyon, I have seen one hair." Tom co-founded the Grand Canyon Private Boaters Association, Grand Canyon Hikers and Backpackers Association and River Runners for Wilderness. He currently works as a physical therapist at the Grand Canyon WalkIn Clinic at the South Rim.


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