027AZTBooks

         AZT BOOKS, WEBSITES & HIKERS

BOOKS:
             1. On The Arizona Trail by Kelly Tighe and Susan Moran, 1998. Pruett Publishing Co, Boulder Colorado.    A good detailed guide for hiking the Arizona Trail except it doesn't include several passages. It's out of print now but most public libraries in Phoenix and nearby cities and Arizona State University have copies. 300 pages.   If you live outside the Phoenix area, ask your librarian to get it through the nationwide inter-library loan system.
             2. Along The Arizona Trail by M. John Fayhee and Jerry Sieve, 1998. Westcliffe Publishers, Inc, Englewood, Colorado. An interesting coffee table book of John's Arizona Trail trip and wonderful pictures by Jerry Sieve. I hear it's out of print too. Check the public library. 127 pages
             3. Crossing Arizona by Chris Townsend, 2002. The Countryman Press, Woodstock, Vermont. Veteran hiker and hiking bookwriter Chris gives an interesting account of his hike on the Arizona Trail. Available at many bookstores. 256 pages.
             4. Biking The Arizona Trail by Andrea Lankford, 2002. A good guide for taking your two wheeled friend on a challenging trip.
             5. The Offical Guide to the Arizona Trail by Tom Jones, published by Westcliffe Publishers is due out in November, 2005. Should be very useful for day, section and thru hikers.

WEBSITES:
             1. The Arizona Trails Association (ATA) website - www.aztrails.org.


And of course, continue to check the Arizona Public Lands Information Center (www.publiclands.org) 602-417-9300 for more books and resources. They always have a lot of good, current stuff for AZT hikers.

Finally email me if you have a book or website that you'd like listed above.

AZT HIKERS: Here's a list of some people that have hiked the Arizona Trail. (NOTE: I HAVE PUT AN * INSTEAD OF @ IN THE EMAIL ADDRESSES TO PREVENT PHISHING. IF YOU EMAIL THEM USE THE @).. It's been compiled by word of mouth so please let me know of others and any corrections, additions, etc.
1. Dale Shewalter - founder of the AZT (1985) 2. Bill Watson (1999) 3. Glen Anderson 4. Barbara Zinn 5. John Fayhee (1997)   6. Karen Berger (1995) 7. Dan Smith (1995) 8. Carol Davis (1995) 9. Tom Jones (1998) 10. Bill Beardsley 11. Mike Headrick 12. Chris Townsend (2000) 13. Jake Schas (2000) 14. Brian Stark (2001) 15. Chris Timmermann (2001) 16. Lori Adkison (2001) 17. Scott Vasterling (2001) 18. Dave Hicks (2001) 19. Fred Gaudet (2002) 20. Li Brannfors {li_brannfors*hotmail.com} (2003) 21. Jim Stoeckmann(2003) 22. Joe Heil (2003) 23. Dave Adams (2003) 24. Satwant Singh Khalsa (satwant60*hotmail.com) (2003) 25. Brain Poturalski (2004) 26. Brett Tucker {blisterfree*yahoo.com}(2004) 27. Keith Molinek {KKMolinek*aol.com} (2004) 28. Joe Lane   joe*katherinehouse.com (2004) 29 and 30. Dad Brad (doxophone*cox.net) and son Marc Buckout (zonabuck10*aol.com) (2004) 31. Laddie Cox (manson*mindspring.com) (2004) 32 and 33. Brian Frankle and Amity Ludders (Fall 2004) see web site listed above 34. Jim Horan (Dec 2004) (jimmyhoran*yahoo.com) 35. and 36. Bill Findley and Jerry Nash (April 2005) 37. Mathew Shannon (May 2005) 38. Dori Pederson (dorped*msn.com) (Oct 2005)

And of course HORSE RIDERS Kelly Tighe and Susan Moran and Bikers Andrea Lankford and Beth Overton. Check out their books listed above. And Eric Schlimmer (schlimmer*hotmail.com) rode his bike across Arizona on the AZT in November, 2002. Look for his book on lots of mountain bike trails in the U.S. in 2005. And Tim McCabe (razorbackteam*netzero.net) and his bike completed their wild ride on the Arizona Trail in May 2004.   AND GET THIS, SCOTT MORRIS BIKED THE TRAIL IN 7 DAYS AND 8 HOURS IN OCTOBER 2005. IT WAS ACTUALLY HIS SECOND RIDE ACROSS THE AZT. HE IS LOOKING FOR CHALLENGERS TO BREAK HIS TIME.(SMORRIS*TOPOFUSION.COM)

HOME         EMAIL ME        NEXT CHAPTER