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Wine Country Bouldering

Wine Country Bouldering

Chris Summit

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(From the website) The Sonoma and Napa Wine Country is a rural vacation getaway located about 50 miles north of San Francisco, in a fertile countryside with a coastal Mediterranean climate and rugged rocky coastline. This guide currently details 575 problems from VB to V12, including 9 projects. There are roofs, slabs, mantels, arêtes, highballs, and deep-water solos. Some are on the beach, next to the Pacific Ocean; some are nestled in the woods; all are in the natural playground that is Northern California.

This digital guidebook is complete with photos and GPS navigation, and works offline. It will continue to be updated as things change. See the linked webpage for the latest information.

California : San Francisco Bay Area

Bay Area Rock (2026)

FEATURED: San Francisco Bay Area Rock

Jim Thornburg (2026) Potlicker Press

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The latest edition (2026) of Jim's annually updated book covering many climbing spots in San Francisco's immediate area.

SF Bay Area Bouldering Guidebook

FEATURED: San Francisco Bay Area Bouldering

Jim Thornburg 2023

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2023 edition, 476 pages, the Bay Area’s most up-to-date bouldering guide.

Golden State Bouldering

FEATURED: GOLDEN STATE BOULDERING

Kimbrough Moore and Shannon Joslin, Illustrations Leo Popovic, 2022

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Golden State Bouldering is a comprehensive guide to the greater Bay Area of California, with information on the outdoor bouldering around San Francisco, Sacramento, Santa Rosa, and Santa Cruz. This guide describes 1,600 boulder problems with hundreds of color photos, maps, GPS coordinates, and hand-drawn illustrations. Golden State Bouldering has a philosophical twist, exploring the ways in which climbing can be among the most meaningful parts of our lives. Whether you are new to climbing or an old-school veteran, Moore and Joslin draw on decades of experience to describe the unique magic of Bay Area climbing.

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Bay Area Top Ropes

Chris Summit, Chris McNamara and Valentine Cullen (2010) Supertopo

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Chris's latest Bay Area climbing books are split into bouldering and top ropes; this is the latter, with coauthors.

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Bay Area Bouldering

Chris Summit (2007) Supertopo

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Chris's latest Bay Area climbing books are split into bouldering and top ropes.

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Bay Area Rock

Bay Area Rock

Jim Thornburg (2022) Potlicker Press

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The latest edition (2022) of Jim's annually updated book covering many climbing spots in San Francisco's immediate area.

Areas Covered

Rock Climbing the San Francisco Bay Area

Teresa Black (2002) Falcon Press ISBN: 0-7627-1143-4

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Teresa Black

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Rock Climbing Guide to the Castle Rock Area

Bruce Morris (2007) MorComm Press 0-9650234-1-9

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A good book on the Skyline and Castle Rock areas, expanded again by Bruce Morris to include content from his earlier, more specialized separate guides. This edition includes both roped climbing and bouldering in the whole South Bay area.

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