A comprehensive guidebook for dog owners that includes seventy-seven great hikes from the Adirondacks through the Catskills. Much more than a guidebook showing readers great places to hike with their canine companions in upstate New York, Doghiker is a dog owner’s operating manual and tool kit. A lifelong dog owner, Alan Via makes a strong case for responsible ownership and offers guidance on selecting a canine hiking companion, training, safety, appropriate gear, canine first aid, and keeping your dog fit and healthy. Covering the Adirondacks through the Catskills, and areas in between, this unique guidebook includes seventy-seven beautiful hikes that are great for dogs. Each hike has a custom topographic map showing parking areas, trails, viewpoints, water sources, and other points of interest. Included are a peak-finder map and chart showing every hike and a summary of rating categories, as well as information on total mileage, elevation gain, ratings for views, difficulty level, dog safety and hazards, hiker traffic, trail conditions, and whether a leash is suggested or required. Detailed driving directions for each outing, including GPS coordinates for key intersections and trailheads, are also provided. By presenting all of this information, drawn from Via’s forty-plus years of hike leadership, readers can easily evaluate which hike fits their needs and get outside and explore the great outdoors with their four-legged friends.

This guidebook reveals the 51 best hiking trails in northern California that are dog friendly. Throughout are full-color maps and photos, helpful tips and sidebars, and tailored hike specs for leash requirements. Also included is information about dog packing and preparation before you hit the trail. The area covers northern California to the Oregon border, with the southernmost part including Big Sur and east across to Bishop, CA.

Just try typing “are small dogs smart…” into its search bar, and Google jumps in prematurely, finishing your sentence for you with suggestions like: “dumb?” “yappy?” “annoying?” Well, no. No, Google, they’re not. We’ve got to say it: Small dogs deserve more respect. If you’ve ever wondered why people love their small dogs like their kids or wished you had a good comeback for the opinionated big dog snob next door when he insults your ten-pound Pekingese, you’ve picked up the right book. In this big defense of small dogs, Downward Sizing Dog proves it’s just not true that big dogs are better dogs or that small dogs are yappy, snappy, annoying, and probably unhousebroken. Weaving real-life stories with new research on the social intelligence and transformative nature of small dogs, Downward Sizing Dog celebrates the powerful canine beings packaged in perfectly-proportioned small-dog frames. With its investigation into every aspect of small dog life, Downward Sizing Dog shows that small dogs deserve not merely more respect; they deserve a place in our families and on our favorite furniture.

This guidebook reveals the 51 best hiking trails in northern California that are dog friendly. Throughout are full-color maps and photos, helpful tips and sidebars, and tailored hike specs for leash requirements. Also included is information about dog packing and preparation before you hit the trail. The area covers northern California to the Oregon border, with the southernmost part including Big Sur and east across to Bishop, CA.

Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.

Have you ever considered how far you walk with your dog? If you walk just 20 minutes a day, in ten years you will have walked far enough to cross the United States. With all that walking ahead of you and your dog, aren't you ready for a new place to hike? Our new book, available now, A Bark In The Park: The 40 Best Places to Hike With Your Dog In The Reno/Lake Tahoe Region rates the best dog-walking destinations with your best friend in mind. How's the trail surface? Any water out there? What hazards are waiting for dogs on the trails? Don't own a dog? Author Sherril Steele-Carlin brings along enough local history, botany, geology and architecture in this lively guide to entertain two-legged hikers as well. The Reno/Lake Tahoe region can be a great place to hike with your dog. Within a short driving distance you can hike on sand trails, climb mountains that leave you and your dog panting, walk through some of the most historic forests in America, and even find a place to go for a swim. ...Where can your dog walk in the footsteps of Ben, Adam, Hoss and Little Joe Cartwright of Bonanza fame (page 43) ...Where can your dog wander among the ruins of a frontier fort? (page 105) ...Where can you walk your dog along an irrigation ditch in use ...since 1878? (page 47) No Dogs! Is there any more dispiriting day for a dog owner than driving to a new park and encountering the dreaded NO DOGS sign? A Bark In The Park: The 40 Best Places to Hike With Your Dog In The Reno/Lake Tahoe Region lists area parks that don't welcome dogs. Also packed inside these 144 pages are... ...skiing with your dog ...tips on outfitting your dog for a hike ...tips on practicing low impact hiking with your dog ...10Cool Things To See With Your Dog On Reno/Lake Tahoe Trails A Bark In The Park: The 40 Best Places to Hike With Your Dog In The Reno/Lake Tahoe Region features 19 whimsical drawings by Andrew Chesworth. We're sure you'll want to get out with your dog and walk where Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable shot their final film (page 97), walk near the site of the first train robbery on the West Coast (page 73), walk in the footsteps of the Pony Express (page 51)...