Best Summit Hikes in Colorado: Second Edition

Released in August 2012, the second edition of Best Summit Hikes in Colorado features an entire new design, over a dozen new routes / summits and improved maps! The collection of non-technical summit hikes and scrambles includes the best 14,000 ft. mountains, secret summits of lower elevations and amazing peaks in every major mountain range in Colorado. If you’d like to order a copy, check out the Best Summit Hikes in Colorado 2nd Edition page — you can order from Amazon.com, Wilderness Press (my publisher). If you’d like to order an copy autographed by the author, simply contact me via email and I’ll send one over!

Best Summit Hikes in Colorado: First Edition

In September of 2005, I completed the first hike for my (then) upcoming guidebook Best Summit Hikes In Colorado. A year later, I walked through the falling aspen leaves on a picture-perfect Colorado autumn afternoon having finished my last hike, East Beckwith Peak in Aspen. In between I did 66 hikes and 93 summits with my GPS a’blazin, cameras rolling and occassionally, legs burnin’. Released in August 2007, Best Summit Hikes in Colorado has gone on to be a Rocky Mountain and Amazon.com best selling book. The 2nd edition was released in 2012 but a few “classic” copies are still in circulation!

Joy of Backpacking
By Brian Beffort
I contributed a few inserts on my personal backpacking and hiking preferences and tricks! Great book for new and experienced hikers. For those who are curious, I switch between ultra-light backpacking and “bring the kitchen sink” 80 lb backpacks. Brian has some pretty good suggestions for everything else in between!

Day and Overnight Hikes: Rocky Mountain National Park
By Kim Lipker
I have one of the blurbs on the back of the book. Kim is a great author and her book is the definitive guide for Rocky Mountain National Park. I actually consulted it when revising my own guide book and have recommended it to many of my friends. It’s a Colorado guide book classic!

Afoot & Afield Atlanta
By Marcus Woolf
Ok, so I didn’t technically contribute to this one, but Marcus is a good pal and great writer. We wrote our books at the same time and traded notes as we went along. Marcus has gone on to develope the excellent outdoors site The Adventure Post, a site where yours truly occassionally posts!