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A trip to Pacific Northwest can be optimized in both time and money with some planning before your trip. This means that chances are you'll need to buy a book and/or map to complement all the free literature out there to aid in your trip planning and navigation to the region. Below are books and maps that we've used. We've also included other books in the literature that may help you find what you need. The list is by no means complete, but hopefully it is enough to get you going on your quest to inform yourself on your travels.
Books
A Waterfall Lover's Guide to the Pacific Northwest (The Mountaineers): This no-nonsense black-and-white guide by Geogory A. Plumb is an authoritative resource on the waterfalls of the states of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. We used the third edition of this book, and the fact that we were able to find a handful of waterfalls (during a brief wedding trip) with the help of this book allowed us to trust the advice of this book. In fact, we intend to continue using this book on subsequent trips to the Pacific Northwest.Another interesting thing about this book is that the author went through the trouble of coming up with a waterfall classification system based on the shape of the waterfall. Even though this isn't a scientific (therefore subjective and inconsistent) way of classifying waterfalls, he keys each of the over 500 waterfalls in his book to this system. The rest of the literature (us included) followed suit and pretty much adopted Plumb's convention of attempting to classify waterfall types based on their shape.
Romance of Waterfalls: Northwest Oregon and Southwest Washington (Outdoor Romance): This is a rather different type of guidebook that seeks to convey the romance and poetry behind waterfalls. It does this by not only giving the usual directions and descriptions that most guidebooks give, but they also include drawings and poems with each featured waterfall. It's pretty inspiring stuff and I intend to use this book when visiting the Columbia River Gorge area, which most of the interesting falls in this book are located.
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