As for Hiking Grand Canyon Loops: Adventures in the Backcountry (Hikes I and II), by George Steck, perhaps the most important thing to note is that in addition to the fact that the first fifty pages include one of the finest introductions that has ever been written to hiking in the canyon, one of the book’s sections begins with a useful cautionary warning from Long John Silver, which all prospective canyon hikers should bear in mind: “Them that die’ll be the lucky ones.”
