Recommended Guide for the Tahoe Area
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We are going to be spending our honeymoon in the Tahoe area next summer and I was looking for suggestions on what guide book is the best for this area? |
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Have you climbed at Lover's Leap? It's the big attraction in the Tahoe area. |
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Thanks FrankPS! |
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South lake: SuperTopo South lake Tahoe climbs |
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Agree with FrankPS's suggestion for the supertopo book. |
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July can be HOT. Seek shade when necessary. The leap gets a lot of sun after about noon; start early then retreat to the lake ;) |
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While at the Leap support the new owners of the Strawberry Store; awesome local climber family that shared great stories, beers, and even their house while we were there last summer! |
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If you have any decent experience traveling about and making sense of guidebooks, you should not waste your money on a Supertopo. They are very basic "select" books designed to help more novice climbers with a basic skillset, find and follow the more popular routes in a given area. |
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Salamanizer wrote:If you have any decent experience traveling about and making sense of guidebooks, you should not waste your money on a Supertopo. They are very basic "select" books designed to help more novice climbers with a basic skillset, find and follow the more popular routes in a given area. A good way to tell if you have a decent skillset in guidebook deciphering (you, having been to Yosemite), is if you can read and make sense of the Falcon Guide by Reid for the Yosemite and Tuolumne areas. If you're good with that book. Pick up the Falcon Guide for Tahoe. It's got the other 90% of routes the Supertopo leaves out.Is the Falcon book still available? I see some used ones online but the new ones inline are very expensive. Can you find this guide locally? |
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Awesome! Thanks for all the advice! |
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Salamanizer wrote: Pick up the Falcon Guide for Tahoe. It's got the other 90% of routes the Supertopo leaves out.Yeah...and with it lots of errors and vague descriptions. SuperTaco books are clearly not comprehensive, but they are nice for what they are, and that is accurate, descriptive, and clearly written. If you're traveling, want to get on the classics, and don't want to waste time 'deciphering' directions and descriptions, then the Taco books are worthwhile. If you live in CA, then of course you also want things like the Reid guides. I for one like the Taco books for certain circumstances. And no, you can't call me a 'noob decipherer' because I also spend plenty of time in obscure locales with scribbles for topos. |
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Lovers Leap is spectacular. If you like easy routes with a lot of varied climbing, try Knapsack Crack on Hogsback. Just get there early, it can back up. You'll love Tahoe! |
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If you want to take a look at some things now (some of which aren't on here) I've got a climbing section going up on my site. Doesn't have much needed info for each route (such as rack needed) like supertopo but has way more areas and how to get to them |
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Unfortunately, there is no great, single guide choice. Get the falcon for an overview of most areas and supplement with mproject info? Stay at lovers leap campground and make your new wife eat your taint as a welcome reprieve from the maggot gagging pit toilet. |
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^^ that pit toilet at the Leap is heinous. One of the worst in climbing... |
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Colonel Mustard wrote: Stay at lovers leap campground and make your new wife eat your taint as a welcome reprieve from the maggot gagging pit toilet.Damn that thing is bad. Can't believe my gf thinks that's better than going in the woods. +1 for the taco. |
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If you have never climbed in Tahoe your options are many, and excellent. |
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Personally, I would not buy "The Locals Guide to North Lake Tahoe" as a traveling climber. More of a specialty piece for, well, locals looking for more obscure routes. |
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^^^^ I would have to disagree about the North Tahoe Guide. It is, by far, the best (Along with the new Hatchett guide to West/North Shore bouldering guide) Tahoe guidebook, even if not planning on climbing all of the over 1,300 routes included. Can't wait to see the Locals Guide to South Lake Tahoe come out. |
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i like the north tahoe guide but it does have some drawbacks as compared to supertopo. while the pictures are glossy, so is the description for each route and gear needed. |