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19 of 21 found the following review helpful:
An essential guide, but beware of an error in this reprint Jan 14, 2000
Harvey Butchart is of course the God of Grand Canyon hiking and this guide is essential for any serious backcountry canyon hiker. While hiking down to the river in Cottonwood Canyon, I was sent on a scary, exposure-filled detour by this guide. On returning home, I compared it to my old editions of the book and found that this reprint mistakenly drops an entire crucial line of text in the Cottonwood Canyon section, so beware.
14 of 15 found the following review helpful:
 Not the Only Guide You'll Ever Need Jan 01, 2000
By Clark B. Hinckley
Harvey Butchart is one of the greatest Grand Canyon hikers and his books are classics. But don't rely on them as your primary guide. They make great supplemental guides if you already have Annerino's Sierra Club guide.Of course, Harvey includes routes you won't find in any other book, since he pioneered them. If you are a serious Canyon hiker, your library is incomplete without Harvey.
17 of 19 found the following review helpful:
 Not What You're Expecting Mar 29, 1999
I bought this book thinking it contained maps and detailed trail descriptions for obscure Canyon paths, only to find that it did not. (If you want that, get Annerino's Sierra Club book, which is the best available that I've seen, and I have the Falcon Guide too, which is likewise more helpful than this work, though this one touches upon some tremendously obscure areas Falcon doesn't.) As a guide, this book is ok, but *definitely* insufficiently detailed. I found it fascinating and entertaining, but it should be called Harvey Butchart's Fairly General Descriptions of Grand Canyon Trails, Very Well Written, and With Stories About Many of These Trails. It was very frustrating to get the book without the highly detailed Butchart maps, which are alluded to (they show in red pen the paths and approaches he took, and in many cases, pioneered) but NOT INCLUDED. Butchart has led a hiking life for all of us to envy, as this book makes clear.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
The most complete reference to the Grand Canyon I've found! Jun 09, 1999
Butchart's book is the only reference to about half the routes talked about in the book! Having hiked several of the routes in the book, ive found the descriptions to give just enough information to get you going in the right direction without taking away the adventure of it all by telling you every detail that you will experience. A must for Canyon hikers.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
A treasure for anyone curious about what it's like to travel the Grand Canyon on foot. Aug 06, 2007
By Midwest Book Review
Written by experienced hiker Harvey Butchart, Grand Canyon Treks is a travelogue of Butchart's pioneering explorations through the Grand Canyon, whose travels have taken him across more than 12,000 miles of remote and previously uncharted Grand Canyon territory. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, Grand Canyon Treks is an armchair traveler's delight in its vivid descriptions of numerous trails, from Bright Angel Trail and Campground to Tanner Trail routes away from it in the Eastern Grand Canyon, to upriver and downriver from President Harding Rapids in the Marble Canyon area, to the Toroweap Area in the Western Grand Canyon and much, much more. Appendices offer a wealth of helpful hints for aspiring hikers, such as precautions to take to avoid heat-related illness and hypothermia, but Grand Canyon Treks is primarily a travelogue to be savored for its details, memories, and fascinating tidbits of historical background, not a how-to guide and not a collection of trail maps. A treasure for anyone curious about what it's like to travel the Grand Canyon on foot.
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