South of the Canadian Border

Dennis Nicholls
Nonfiction
336 pages
6"x9" with black-and-white maps and photos

Building on his first book, Trails of the Wild Cabinets, author Dennis Nicholls now presents Trails of the Wild Selkirks: South of the Canadian Border, exploring the spectacular range that spans northeastern Washington and northern Idaho, stretching far into Canada. This book focuses on the American portion of the range, an area that holds a fantastic variety of landscapes from lush rain forests to dry grasslands to the cirques and granite of its high peaks. These wonderful wildlands also remain home to wildlife found almost nowhere else in the lower United States, including grizzly, woodland caribou, lynx and wolves. Nicholls provides an absorbing natural history for the range, along with several essays drawn from his own adventures wandering the Selkirks. Whether you’re a Sandpoint visitor or long-time resident, Trails of the Wild Selkirks will help you explore and appreciate Sandpoint's back-door wildlands.

This comprehensive guidebook is indispensable for hikers, and includes:

1,300 miles' worth of on-foot research, all hiked by the author over the period of a year
Highly detailed descriptions of more than 130 trails, with information on dozens more
What to expect, precautions, special features, "Sweat Index" and much more outlined in descriptions, including notes for mountain bikers and horseback riders, availability of water and campsites, and directions to trailheads
Maps, photos and a features chart to help readers more easily find trails with major points of interest such as lakes, waterfalls, old-growth forests, lookouts and peaks