Northwest Region Guidebooks

Granite Lake Ice Guide

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This is a PDF guide to the Granite Lake area ice including 3 Tiers, The Thunderdome, and A Peak. This is Version 4 from November 2021. It is free just click on the "purchase" link.

A Rock Climber's Guide to Lolo Pass

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Explore a world of granite domes near Lolo Pass on the border of Montana and Idaho. The guidebook describes hundreds of single-pitch to short multi-pitch climbs ranging from sport to trad climbs. The book describes most of the Lolo Pass areas and includes photographic topos, and excellent descriptions of routes.


As of 2023, this is the first guidebook since Brad Hutcheson's publication of A Guide to Lolo Pass. Since then many routes have been established and are now documented here. Get lost, get sendy, have fun!

A Climber's Guide To Glacier National Park

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Edwards has been hailed as "the Patron Saint of climbing Glacier National Park" and his guide on the subject is considered a classic of mountaineering literature. This latest edition offers-in addition to a brand-new section of inspiring full-color photographs-new route information, improved maps, route sketches and a freshly updated history of climbing in the park. This superb guide is essential reading for all those eager to explore Glacier's spectacular peaks.

The Flathead Rocks: A Climber’s Guide to the Flathead Valley

FEATURED: A Climber’s Guide: Point of Rocks, Montana

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Rock climbers rejoice! One of Montana's best kept secrets has been let out of the bag and it's now bigger, badder and better than ever before.

Detailed maps, crisp photographs and easy-to-follow directions combine in this comprehensive guidebook to finding and climbing more than 400 routes and boulder problems at Point of Rocks.

Located 25 miles equidistant between the towns of Whitefish and Eureka in Montana's largest state forest, this raw and rocky landscape is accessible only to non-motorized travel and boasts 49 different climbing zones scattered throughout 3,000 acres of wilderness.

While predominately a sport climber and boulder’s playground, don’t leave the trad rack at home collecting dust because opportunites abound for rock warriors of nearly every caliber and discipline.

Discover the unique geological history preserved in the ancient outcrops of exposed bedrock and the tumultuous story of how prehistoric seas, continental collisions and ice age glaciers shaped this rugged land.

Included in this completely updated second edition is route information for the nearby and car-accessible areas Drive-In Theater and Stillwater Canyon. Be sure to include this essential guide in your backpack and come experience the wonder and adventure that await you in this beautiful corner of northwest Montana.

Lost Horse Canyon: A Climber's Guide to Montana's Best Cragging and Bouldering

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Imagine a beautifully-colored, 600 foot crag with splitter cracks and crisp edges looming over the ice-cold, emerald-green waters of a blue-ribbon trout stream with some of the finest peaks in Montana set off in the distance. Scattered throughout the Fir and Ponderosa forests below lie dozens of Yosemite quality boulders. This isn t a dream, it is Lost Horse Canyon in the southern Bitterroot Valley; arguably, the best climbing area in the state.

Central Montana Rock

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Volume 2 in the Big Sky Rock series of Montana climbing guides. The serene climbing areas along the Rocky Mountain Front, the Elk Horn and Big Belt Mountains of Montana are home to everything from convenient practice areas to some of the most challenging free climbs in the state - many described here for the first time. Written by one of the area's leading explorers, this guide covers over 350 quality climbs on dozens of roadside sport crags, lonely canyons, textured granite spires of the Boulder Batholith, and the multi-pitch wonder of Blackleaf Canyon near the Bob Marshall Wilderness.

Rock Climbing Montana

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Montana climbing offers a lifetime of adventure and challenge. Rock Climbing Montana, formerly The Rock Climber's Guide to Montana is the only guide available that covers all the major climbing areas in the state-including Missoula, Helena, Butte, and Bozeman as well as out-of-the-way crags like Stone Hill, Mulkey and Rattler gulches, and the state's highest mountain, Granite Peak-with routes ranging from 5.3 to 5.13. Climbers from around the state-(Dwight Bishop, Ron Brunckhorst, Bill Dockins, Rafael Grana, Randall Green, Brian Hatfield, Brad Hutcheson, Jason Taylor, Matt Taylor, and many others)-provided first-hand information for area overviews, route betas and topos, maps, and photos. Also included are suggestions for hear, information on locations and types of anchors, approaches, and descents as well as listings for shops, gyms, and guide services. Rock Climbing Montana is essential for planning your next climbing trip in the Big Sky State.