Adirondack Waterfall Guide: New York's Cool Cascades

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I am an avid waterfall hunter. I found this guide to be extremely helpful, and ulike most others, the directions were pretty good. I've been trying to reach Russell Dunn, so I hope that maybe he logs in here to see what people think. There was a waterfall written about on page 116 of this book, called Hull's Falls. This is very important because it doesn't exist anymore. Believe me, I know what I'm talking about. My family and I visited the falls recently, and I'm sure we had the right place. The bridge was there, the boulders were there, but the rocks had fallen into disarray and the waterfall therefore no longer exists. I think that it may have something to do with the earthquake that happened in Plattsburgh a few years ago. It may have loosened things so that when it flooded it created an incident. The bridge has also been closed, because it's unsafe. If there is a reprint of the book, that may be something that should be updated. But the book as a whole is an excellent source of information for waterfall hunters in that area.

ok book for finding waterfalls but I like color. It gets you to the spot but it is hard to judge whether you really want to go there or not since the inferior B&W pics do not show the true story. I know, the book would be more expensive in color but I'd pay it. My only complaint. Other than that, worth the price.

It is great to have a handy portable guide to the most popular waterfalls in New York State.I've hiked my way in to some of the ones that were tough to find.It is wonderful to have a book that lists them all...even he ones that you can drive right up to!I would recommend that you use this book along with the benefit of a good map...so you can find your way home.

This is a useful guide for locating the relevant waterfalls, and overall it served its intended purpose of helping this out-of-towner visit them. The back of the book includes an alphabetical listing, end notes and a lengthy bibliography.I have two non-trivial complaints and an opportunity missed:1) The pictures are generally poor - and those are the good ones. Most of them are downright terrible. At best they seem to be the result of low budget printing. At worst they look like antique newspaper shots that are crudely photocopied.2) The critically important map in the front that shows all the waterfalls doesn't easily cross-reference to the table of contents. Instead, the numbered dots on the map correlate to a list of the falls' names, but not the page # where the description begins. To get that, you must cross-reference a waterfall's name with the table of contents. It would be much simpler to just include the map's numbers as part of the table of contents' listing. After a while I gave up searching the names and hand-wrote the map reference # next to every waterfall in the table of contents.3) An opportunity for improvement would be a classification system (ie 1-5 stars, w/ 5 stars being amazing) that rates the falls' beauty/impressiveness and difficulty to reach. I've seen this in other guidebooks and it's very helpful to someone not familiar w/ the area.

I bring this with me hiking and try to visit at least one of them everytime. A great guide that is an invaluable tool for any hiker in the Adirondacks area.

Do you like to read? Do you like pictures? Do you like stories of cool waterfalls? If you don't, don't buy this book. If you do.....well......you know.

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