Along the Colorado Trail

by John Fielder

John Fielder llama-packed the 470 miles of the spectacular Colorado Trail from Denver to Durango. Here's your ticket to seeing the trail wind through the Colorado Rockies from home!

Genres: Nonfiction, Photography

128 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1992

About the author

John Fielder (August 2, 1950 – August 11, 2023) was an American landscape photographer, nature writer, the publisher of over 40 books, and a conservationist.

Reviews

[Whitney · Rating 5 out of 5]

As a huge fan of John Fielder and a CT completer I was over the moon to be gifted this signed copy from a dear friend of mine. I knew the photographs would be amazing but I didn’t know how much I would identify with the author. Fayhee and Fielder hiked the trail at a time when it was much more wild and less traveled than now and it was nice to read and see how it was then. Fayhee does a great job of giving an honest view of the day to day thru hiker experience and I appreciated his sometimes dark humor around it. This will be a treasured book in my collection forever.

[C · Rating 2 out of 5]

I want to love this, but so far, the narrator's little black cloud is bringing me down. He lets his personal frustrations and emotional reactions cloud his ability to give a clear message and win support to his cause.

The cause: protect and preserve Colorado's wilderness, appreciate its beauty, and as a whole, behave as responsible stewards to some of our state's greatest assets.

The hitch: He gripes. He complains. It distracts. It annoys and generates anxiety rather than provoking a sympathetic (or productive) response.

He (M. John Fayhee, the narrator) does have some engaging writing, and good storytelling. The ability to provoke a positive, constructive reaction in readers is definitely within his power. But, it fails here with the personal interjections and grudges. Those could have been left to a blog and excluded from a coffee table book. Who wants to look at beautiful scenery while listening to someone kvetch that it's all going to ruin?

But, then again, how many people actually read a coffee table book, anyway?

So, in a nutshell...pictures are great, the text.. not so much.

[Marjorie Elwood · Rating 4 out of 5]

A beautiful look at the Colorado Trail, this made me want to continue hiking it.