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Colorado : Alpine Rock : RMNP - Rock

RMNP on KAYA.

Rocky Mountain National Park Bouldering Guide [DIGITAL]

Jamie Emerson / KAYA / 2023

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This extensive GPS guidebook includes comprehensive data for the Chaos Canyon boulders, Emerald Lake, Wild Basin, Endovalley, Birdland, Moraine Park, Bear Lake Road, and more! It is complete with pins for every boulder, beta videos, topo lines, and descriptions—all available for offline download! KAYA PRO includes access to over 50 other guides, including Clear Creek Canyon, Mt. Evans, Guanella Pass, Lincoln Lake, Eldorado Canyon, Joe's Valley, Red Rock, and many more. Check it out now!

Rocky Mountain National Park: The High Peaks: The Climber's Guide, by Bernard Gillett.

Rocky Mountain National Park: The High Peaks: The Climber's Guide

Bernard Gillett, Earthbound Sports, 2001.

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Covers rock, ice and mixed alpine routes in the high peaks of Rocky Mountain National Park. Areas covered include: Arrowhead, Cathedral Spires, Cathedral Wall, Chiefshead, the Diamond, Half Mountain, Hallett Peak, Loch Vale, Longs Peak, McHenrys Peak, Moraine Park, Mt. Alice, Mt. Meeker, Notchtop Mountain, Otis Peak, Pagoda Mountain, Pilot Mountain, Powell Peak, Spearhead, Ypsilon Mountain, and more.

The topos aren't as artistic as Rossiter's, but the information is a little more up-to-date.

Rock and Ice Climbing Rocky Mountain National Park: The High Peaks, by Richard Rossiter.

Rock and Ice Climbing Rocky Mountain National Park: The High Peaks

Richard Rossiter, Falcon Press, 1996.

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A comprehensive guide to the many climbing routes of Rocky Mountain Park. Rossiter has drawn many wonderful topos of the major cliffs and routes, including: The Diamond, Spearhead, Petit Grepon, Hallett Peak and Chief's Head. Includes ice climbs as well as rock climbs.

Colorado : Alpine Rock : Mt. Blue Sky (formerly Mt. Evans)

Mt. Evans Bouldering guidebook by Jamie Emerson.

Mount Evans Bouldering Guide on KAYA

Jamie Emerson / KAYA / 2023

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Jamie Emerson's guidebook is now digital in KAYA! Navigate the talus fields like never before with high-fidelity, offline GPS navigation. Topos, descriptions, directions, and more often than not, beta videos, are also available for download. Lincoln Lake, Guanella Pass, and Mt. Evans proper are three distinct destinations in-app. KAYA's full catalog of guides is included in a KAYA PRO membership. That means Red Rock, Joe's Valley, Bishop, Leavenworth, Tahoe, and more—all for just $5/month!

Colorado : Alpine Rock : Tenmile Range

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Colorado's Tenmile-Mosquito Range Mountains: Hikes, Scrambles, Snow and Rock Climbs

Derek A. Wolfe/Xanadu Mountain Press/2020

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This book is a comprehensive guide for all the peaks over 13,000' in Colorado's Tenmile-Mosquito Mountains. With varying ascents from hikes, scrambles, snow climbs, and technical routes, there are plenty of options for anyone who wishes to seek alpine adventure.

-Comprehensive descriptions for over 150 routes on 27 peaks.
-Color photos and maps
-Difficulty ratings for each climb
-Mileage and elevation gain statistics for each route
-Driving directions for trailheads
-Color topographical maps
-GPS coordinates for summits and parking areas

160 pages. Full color.

Colorado : Alpine Rock : Sangre de Cristo Range

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Colorado's Sangre de Cristo Range Mountains: Hikes, Scrambles, Snow and Rock Climbs

Derek A. Wolfe/Xanadu Mountain Press/2020

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This book is a comprehensive guide for all the peaks over 13,000' in the Colorado Sangre de Cristo Mountains. With varying ascents from hikes, scrambles, snow climbs, and technical routes, there are plenty of options for anyone who wishes to seek alpine adventure.

-Comprehensive descriptions for over 280 routes on 83 peaks.
-Color photos and maps
-Difficulty ratings for each climb
-Mileage and elevation gain statistics for each route
-Driving directions for trailheads
-Color topographical maps
-GPS coordinates for summits and parking areas

304 pages. Full color.

Colorado : Alpine Rock

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Colorado's Elk Range Mountains: Hikes, Scrambles, Snow and Rock Climbs

Derek A. Wolfe/Xanadu Mountain Press/2021

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This book is a comprehensive guide for all the peaks over 13,000' in Colorado's Elk Range Mountains. With varying ascents from hikes, scrambles, snow climbs, and technical routes, there are plenty of options for anyone who wishes to seek alpine adventure.

-Comprehensive descriptions for over 200 routes on 51 peaks.
-Color photos and maps
-Difficulty ratings for each climb
-Mileage and elevation gain statistics for each route
-Driving directions for trailheads
-Color topographical maps
-GPS coordinates for summits and parking areas

160 pages. Full color.

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Rifle Mountain Park and Western Colorado Rock Climbs

Dave Pegg, BJ Sbarra, Jeff Achey, and Nate Adams, Wolverine Publishing, published June 16, 2008.

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Rifle Mountain Park and Western Colorado Rock Climbs
By Dave Pegg, BJ Sbarra, Jeff Achey, and Nate Adams.
228 pages. Color.

Simply put, Rifle Mountain Park is the best limestone sport climbing destination in North America. Confined to a narrow box canyon two miles long, RMP contains an unbelievable concentration of standard setting climbing. Long known for its overhanging enduro-fests, the canyon has seen a revitalization of route development, with the majority of the new routing taking place in the moderate grades of 5.11 and under.

Rifle Mountain Park and Western Colorado Rock Climbs also details over 20 newly developed and never before published crags in Glenwood Canyon, the Frying Pan River Valley, the Crystal River Valley, and around Main Elk Creek near New Castle. With updates of the classic spots like the Fortress of Solitude and the Redstone Boulders, as well as details about the soon-to-be classic crags of the Narrows near Redstone, the Skillet above Basalt, and Lime Creek above Eagle, this guidebook is a must have for any Colorado rock addict.

Rifle Mountain Park and Western Colorado Rock Climbs also showcases the region's climbing with hundreds of color photographs, including stunning action shots from pro shooters like Keith Ladzinski, Celin Serbo, and Tim Kemple, as well as the photos of BJ Sbarra.

Here is a complete list of crags covered within: Rifle Mountain Park, Rifle Arch, Main Elk Crag, the Pup Tent of Solitude, the Fortress of Solitude, the Puoux, Superpuoux, the Homestead and Gray Slabs in Glenwood Canyon, East Canyon, No Name Canyon, the Neighborhood, the Grizzley Creek Wall, Fountain Buttress, the Shoshone Stones, Dead Horse Crag, Surgery Buttress, Seven Castles, the Skillet, Hagerman Pass, Lime Creek, the Narrows, Redstone Boulders, Coal Creek Crag, and the Coal Creek Boulders.

Colorado Scrambles, by Dave Cooper.

Colorado Scrambles: A Guide to 50 Select Climbs in Colorado's Mountains

by Dave Cooper, Colorado Mountain Club Press, 2005.

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Colorado Scrambles: A Guide To 50 Select Climbs In Colorado's Mountains (Cmc Classics) (Paperback) by Dave Cooper "Scrambling encompasses the realm between off-trail hiking and technical climbing..."

Book Description
- Fully GPS enabled to identify critical locations on both the approach and the climb
- Contains many little-known but excellent routes as well as the classics
- Full-color guidebook
- The latest in the Colorado Mountain Club's series: CMC Classics

The Colorado Mountains provide endless opportunities for climbers, and now in the latest installment of the Colorado Mountain Club's Classics series, Dave Cooper has compiled this guidebook that offers complete descriptions for some of the best scrambling throughout the state of Colorado. Rather than use the height of a peak or its region, this book explores the quality of the scrambling routes. Written for the experienced mountaineer interested in not only bagging summits, but also in a challenge, rock quality, position and remarkable routes. You'll find scrambles in the San Juan Mountains, Sangre de Cristo Range, the Park Range, the Gore Range, Tenmile Range, The Mosquito Range, the Sawatch Range, the Front Range, and the Elks.

This guidebook contains detailed information on what makes the route unique, how to start the climb, access issues, crux sections and route finding tips. Extensive photographs take the scrambler along the route for clarification, and the book is fully GPS enabled to identify critical locations on both the approach and the climb. Detailed topographic maps make routes easier to locate.

The Ripper: Climbing in Colorado's Wet Mountain

by Ben Bruestle, Sharp End Publishing, 2003.

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The Wet Mountains, a hidden gem of Southern Colorado climbing, boast steep sport granite, multi-pitch adventure climbs, ice and historic sandstone bouldering. Included in this new guide are the popular sport crags of the Tanner Dome massif.

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Western Sloper--Rifle Mountain Park

by Dave Pegg, Wolverine Publishing.

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The only up-to-date guide to America's premier sport-climbing destination: Rifle Mountain Park in Western Colorado. Also covers The Fortress of Solitude—home of Flex Luthor and Kryptonite— Puoux and other sport-climbing, bouldering, and traditional climbing areas in Western Colorado.

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Colorado Bouldering, by Phillip Benningfield

Colorado Bouldering

by Phillip Benningfield, Sharp End Publishing, 1999.

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This is the Bible of bouldering in Colorado. From High Country hide-outs to the popular Front Range crags, Benningfield's meticulously researched guide details thousands of boulder problems. A must-have guide for any local or Colorado visitor.

Also available at Sharp End Books.

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Colorado Front Range Bouldering: Southern Areas, by Bob Horan.

Colorado Front Range Bouldering Volume 3: Southern Areas

by Bob Horan, Chockstone Press, 1998. ISBN: 1575400022

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The legend Bob Horan covers many areas with maps and descriptions.

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Front Range Crags

by Peter Hubbel, Chockstone Press, 1993. Out of print

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A solid guide that includes extends north to climbing in Fort Collins and south to Castlewood Canyon State Park. The pictures of the routes are all drawn, and generally reliable. While the guide is comprehensive in terms of route volume, there is no description for the routes or subjective rating.

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Rock Climbing Colorado

by Stewart M. Green, Falcon Press, 1995.

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This guide likely incorporates the most climbing areas in Colorado of any other guide. The guide also makes routes relatively easy to identify, with good pictures and descriptions. However, each area is given an overview, often leaving out a large portion of routes within a specific area.

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