Title: If you've read their other guides, you've read this one.
Product review: While this edition supplies something that the other books in Spring and Mannings series don't, namely color pictures, there is really very little new here. The authors have updated the text in a few instances and their introduction/preface is new, but there are pictures and descriptions in this book that date to the First Edition.And I must ask "Why?" Why was it necessary to publish this book? Spring and Manning endlessly lament the fact that most of these hikes are overcrowded, overused, overloved, trampled beyond all recognition, and yet they publish a "new" guidebook so that these very places may be abused to a greater extent. I don't get it.If you don't own the other books in this series and don't plan to buy them, by all means buy this one. Just don't be suprised if 2.5 million others are at the trailhead with you.
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