If you want to know what hiking treasures await you on Mt. Hood and intend to go exploring this summer, you’ll find that owning both books is a decision you’ll be glad you made.

Both books are:

• Small & compact and easily tuck into a pant, shirt or pack pocket

• Full of Mt. Hood facts and trivia and fun to read

• Provide maps

• Give a detailed description of each trail & level of difficulty

• Contain driving instructions to the trailheads

• Include beautiful pen & ink sketches of the flowers and scenery

• Contains safety information

Around & About Mt Hood Focuses on:

• The whole 41-mile Timberline Trail that circles the mountain (except for one washout). The book breaks the Trail down into 8 segments that work perfectly for day hikes

• Includes several shorter hikes that take you up to meadows full of alpine flowers and beautiful vistas that kids will love

• Distances for the 8 Timberline Trail segments range from 5.5 to 12.7 miles & each one can be hiked “clockwise” or “counterclockwise”

• Provides up-to-date, accurate maps

• Contains many photographs taken on the 8 segments

• Includes information about the 2011 Dollar Lake fire and the devastation it caused in the forest as well as information on the amazing regenerative forces already at work.

• Interesting information about how the glaciers on Mt Hood are melting and retreating.

Hikes & Walks on Mount Hood Focuses on:

• 41 hikes & walks in the Government Camp & Timberline Lodge areas of Mt Hood

• Distances ranges from ½ mile to 13 miles; many are <5 miles

• Many work well for kids

• Loops that are fun with some lakes as destinations for picnicking, swimming and fishing

• Historic Timberline Lodge which can be used as a base, a place to stay or just hang out and gaze at the vistas that go on forever.