By Dennis Nicholls
With Jim Mellen
Nonfiction
176 pages, 6"x9" with maps and photos

New in Summer 2008! Second Edition. The first-ever guidebook to focus exclusively on a Sandpoint-area mountain range when first published in 2003, Trails of the Wild Cabinets is a hiker’s and biker’s bible for the Cabinet Mountains -- that magnificent range stretching from a bit north of Sandpoint 150 miles southeast into Montana. Formed of ancient sedimentary rock and sculpted by massive glaciers during the Ice Age, the Cabinets hold inspiring peaks, breathtaking alpine lakes, unspoiled forests and rare wildlife. Author Dennis Nicholls also provides an absorbing natural history for the range, along with several essays drawn from his own adventures wandering the Cabinets. For the new 2008 second edition, inveterate hiker Jim Mellen stepped in to update the guidebook with updated trail information, additional trails and GPS coordinates for all trailheads -- in all, adding 16 pages to the original book. The second edition also features new indices by trail name and number, as well as appendices on gear and outdoors ethics. Whether you’re a Sandpoint visitor or long-time resident, Trails of the Wild Cabinets will help you explore and appreciate our back-door wildlands.

This comprehensive guidebook is indispensable for hikers, and includes:

Detailed descriptions of 85 trails all throughout the Cabinets, from the range's temperate rainforests to its desert-like prairies
Maps, photos and a features chart that helps readers more easily find trails with major points of interest such as lakes, waterfalls, old-growth forests, lookouts and peaks
Appendix for mountain bikers identifying trails suitable for biking, with extra notes on difficulty and accessibility
Indexes by trail name and number allow the reader to easily look up trails included in the book