One hundred mountain trails, Maine to California, photographed by a man who has spent a lifetime walking them. Tim Palmer's award-winning volume is the hiker's bucket list in its most dangerous form: big, gorgeous and specific, from trails whose names everyone knows to highcountry routes that are scarcely known at all.

Palmer shoots his own photography, and it shows in the honesty of the light: these are the views you actually earn at elevation. Around the images he writes as both storyteller and practical guide, with the essentials on seasons, distances and difficulty to move a hike from the coffee table into an actual calendar. The book won the National Outdoor Book Award in 2020.

A 10.4-inch square hardcover, 320 pages and properly heavy. It anchors a Pacific Northwest bookshelf, settles arguments about where to go next summer, and makes the kind of gift that gets planned around for years. The companion volume on river journeys is the other half of the argument.