British Columbia

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British Columbia is Janna Leigh Fleming’s Cicerone guide to the best walking opportunities in one of the world’s most remote wildernesses and outdoor destinations. The guide covers walks through a territory that includes 637 provincial parks, six national parks, wide regions of protected land and age-old forests, wild mountain rivers, grizzly bears and sockeye salmon.

The guide is structured in 7 main sections – Vancouver Island, Haidi Gwaii (The Queen Charlotte Islands), Whistler and Squamish, Manning Provincial Park, Mount Revelstoke and Glacier National Parks, The Kootenays and British Columbia Rockies – totalling 50 trails though the Canadian wilderness. Each trail description opens with information on distance, time, difficulty rating, elevation change, the relevant maps and the best time of year to complete the route. A detailed introduction gives practical advice on Accommodation in wilderness areas, driving on logging roads, tide-tables, national parks and surviving in the wild, including a comprehensive section on bears in the wild. Detailed trail descriptions are accompanied by sketch diagrams mapping the route in addition to colour and black and white photographs illustrating some of the highlights of the region.

About this series:
Cicerone Press are one of the UK's most well known and respected publishers of guidebooks for the outdoor enthusiast. Easily distinguished by their convenient pocket size, these books have been a favourite amongst walkers, climbers and cyclists for many years. Their guides for European and international destinations are highly popular amongst English-speaking tourists. The books are of the same high standard as the UK guides, with clear maps, detailed route descriptions and plentiful background information. The range is extensive and often they produce the only available English language guide available for a particular area or long distance route.