No comments about Fishing Yellowstone Hatches.

No comments about Rand McNally Casper, Cheyenne, Laramie, Wyoming.

4 comments about Hiking Wyoming's Cloud Peak Wilderness.

1. I live in Wyoming within 40 miles of the Cloud Peak Wilderness Area, and have been hiking in it off and on for the past 20 years. On the hikes I've taken since purchasing the book, I found Mr. Molvar's guide useful. The trail descriptions and ratings are accurate for the hikes I've compared to the text, and the author has a clear easy to read style.

   I recommend this book. It will not take the place of a detailed map or tell all that one may discover on a particular hike, but it is a useful tool.




2. I live in Wyoming within 40 miles of the Cloud Peak Wilderness Area, and have been hiking in it off and on for the past 20 years. On the hikes I've taken since purchasing the book, I found Mr. Molvar's guide useful. The trail descriptions and ratings are accurate for the hikes I've compared to the text, and the author has a clear easy to read style.

   I recommend this book. It will not take the place of a detailed map or tell all that one may discover on a particular hike, but it is a useful tool.




3. I lived in the Buffalo, WY area for ten years and bought this book to help plan a "homecoming" backpacking trip from afar. Erik Molvar's book covers all the classic trails in the Cloud Peak Wilderness area. In addition, the last half of the book covers hikes in the Big Horn Mountains outside the interior wilderness area. Apparently one reviewer who is not from the area missed this fact. This book is an excellent introduction to the Big Horn Mountains and will guide you through the marvelous scenery of one the the West's least visited but truly unique mountain ranges.



4. This a very helpful and informative book on anyone who should want to hike in the Cloud Peak Wilderness. It gives trails, elevation, distances from trail head to each connection on the trail for the end of the journey. I highly recommend this book to hikers.

No comments about Wyomings Snake River.

No comments about Montana & Wyoming: An Explorer's Guide (Includes Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks).

No comments about Compass American Guides: Wyoming, 5th Edition (Compass American Guides).

5 comments about Fishing the Beartooths.

1. Mr. Marcuson clearly has an encyclopedic knowledge of his subject, and communicates it well. Even if you're not planning to fish the area, you'll easily get your money's worth from his descriptions of scenic attractions, camping possibilities, trails, routes, wildlife, and other background information - as well as an assurance of where the fishermen and outfitters won't be if you're looking for the most in wilderness solitude.
   
   My caveats are minor:
   1. The index follows the same scheme as the book (organized by drainage), which I found to be a nuisance when looking for a lake by name.
   2. You may need a magnifying glass for the maps showing the lake index numbers.
   3. Restarting the lake index numbers at 1 for each drainage makes it easier find the wrong description; this could easily be addressed by numbering all of the lakes sequentially, or using a drainage prefix character.
   4. A couple of additional indexes organizing the lakes by size, species habitation, abundance, most recent stocking year, and so forth wouldn't have cost too much and would have made the book much easier to use as a reference. Maybe Mr. Marcuson was trying to keep it from being too easy to find his favorite fishing holes, though.



2. The author managed the fisheries and fish stocking program in the Beartooths for many years, and provides enormous detail in this book about every lake that has fish. There have been some changes since he wrote the first edition, and not all of them are noted in this latest edition (1997) but, overall, the info is great. I don't know of a similarly complete and authoritative fishing guide to any other wilderness area. One small gripe: this book talks solely about the lakes of the Beartooths without mentioning that some of the best fishing is in the feeder and outlet streams, some of them a long way from the nearest lakes.



3. This is the best fishing guide that I have ever read. When I first purchased the book, I had little experience or success with fishing for trout in mountain lakes. I had taken an earlier backpacking trip to the Beartooth Mountains, but only caught 4-5 fish in 9 days. Then I purchased and studied this book in detail and during my next two 9-day backpacking trips to the Beartooth Mountains, I caught fish for dinner almost every night. Where once I had to settle for catching small brook trout, I now could plan trip routes to catch big fat Cutthroat trout for dinner. It was a true joy to read the detailed descriptions of each mountain lake and to understand Pat's reasoning behind stocking each lake with specific trout species. Not only that, but Pat gives you details on what years are the best to fish each lake based on their individual stocking schedules. Finally, Pat gives invaluable fishing tips such as how to locate and catch fish in these remote mountain lakes. I thank Pat for what has become a lifelong joy of trout fishing throughout the west.



4. Pat Marcuson knows the beartooths. If you are planning a trip into the Absaroka/Beartooth wilderness area you need two things a good map and this book. After a few trips into the Montana wilderness especially the Beartooths you will quickly find out you need to know what your up against and what going to be there when you get there. Pat's book will give you the best fishing advice because he's been there and fished the lakes for a decade working for Montana's Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks. So again if you're a fisherman looking for trout in the Beartooths you have to get this book.



5. Good guide to all the lakes in the Beartooth Mountains. Ever wonder if all those lakes have fish in them. This book tells you. Tells you depths and last time they were stocked and other useful information.

No comments about Rand Mcnally Easy to Read Montana/Wyoming.

2 comments about Wild Journey : On the trail with a Wyoming game warden in Yellowstone Country.

1. I first found this title after reading C.J. Box's mystery series about fictional Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett. This book is a game warden's memoirs recounted around a number of issues, like the Yellowstone fires of 1988, increasing human/grizzly interaction, and a variety of outdoor topics. I found the book to be quite entertaining and readbale and presented in easy to read, straightforward language. I would recommend this book to any hunters, outdoorsman, wildlife photographers, hikers, and those who love the American West.



2. I spent three summers in Dave Bragonier's Yellowstone Country and appreciate his true depiction of history in the area and his candor relating to present-day problems such as the overpopulation of some species labeled endangered.
   Dave writes what spoken words can not express when it comes to the most glorious, still untamed wilderness areas of the Yellowstone, Bridger and Shoneshone Natinal Forests.
   A job well done... I hope he writes more.
   Patricia Probert Gott, author Cowgirl Series.

1 comments about Along Wyoming's Continental Divide Trail (The Continental Divide Trail Series).

1. Having grown up camping and fishing along the Divide's southern point in Wyo, this book is especially dear to me, providing a spectacular photo record of some of my most favorite spots on the planet.

   As the trail slashes its way across the Cowboy State at a diagonal, the diversity of land and environment makes for unusual contrast of vegetation, mountains and water.

   The text compliments the simply outstanding photography of Smith, who one can tell who's been there the majesty and beauty of this country!