Is the new Northern AZ Guide ready??

Just got through editing the first proof and sent it off to The Doctor on Friday. A few changes, and one more proof to go. We are thinking late October-early November as a release date - just in time for Sedona season!

The breakdown: 306 pages covering 25 different areas, over 550 routes - $35.00

Thanks for your interest, Erik & David

Thanks for the positive feedback, Michael.

It shouldn't be too long now! Still feeling good about getting this out in 2010.

any news on the release? thanks.

The second edit is almost done. I think this is the last one, so it shouldn't be long now. Doubtful if we will make Christmas, but it will probably be available in January.

Thanks for your interest and inquiry,

Erik & David

any updates?

Dude, you only have four weeks to climb. It will never come out in time.

The final updates are being processed now. The final proof will be ordered very soon.

Is a general Northern AZ guide coming out too? Or just Sedona?

The "Above the rim" guide will be a separate project, about the same size as the Sedona guide, around 600 routes as well, but fewer areas. Paradise Forks, Winslow, Elden areas, The Pit, and a few more outlying areas.

That one is the next project, we have the raw data ready, but we need pictures, descriptions, maps, etc...

UPDATE: The Sedona guidebook is going to the page-maker person this week!

Thanks for your interest!

Great! I just moved to Flag from Tucson. I climbed in Sedona a few times while living in Tucson. But, I'm just starting to discover how great the climbing is in Sedona, and how much great climbing there is. Psyched!

So is the big date in sight yet?

Any news on when/how I can get ahold of one of these

Don't hold your breath. It's still a long ways off. Especially the NA guide.

From what I heard on the street the NorAZ guides have died before they got out of the gate.

Please elaborate.

Larry wrote:Please elaborate.

You would have to talk to E Wolfe and D Bloom to answer the question "why". Hush Hush is all I got.

Something happened and the guides are not being printed.

Check it out.

supertopo.com/climbing/thre…;tn=60

But the thread has been deleted.

BASE99999 wrote: Something happened and the guides are not being printed.

That is patently untrue.

We have had some set-backs, this is true, but the Sedona guide is still in the works. David and I are both continuing our work on the guide, and I will just say that the longer the time that it is taking the better the finished product will be.

We are way over announcing release dates, but suffice it to say: The guidebook WILL BE RELEASED.

Hope that clears up any misconceptions.

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Hang in there Eric and just release it when it's done.

What's the latest ETA?

Thanks, Paul.

I will tell you this: All of the 80 or so pictures are resized and ready, the 101 hand-drawn topos and maps are resized and ready, all of the data is in Excel and ready, all of the text documents are ready.
I am awaiting a final run-through the text for accuracy from David, which is fairly far along from what I have gathered.

Thanks to all of our advertisers and supporters for their patience in this process, we are sure everyone will be quite pleased with the final product.

I mean, for comparison, look at Alan Watts update of the Smith Rock guide - it took him over 10 years, and he wasn't self-publishing. The self-published Red Rocks guide took 10 years, as well. Although not the breadth and length of those two books, we are dealing with similar amounts of "new" information, and don't have nearly the reference materials available to us that either of those book-writers had.

What are we on, year 3? Given that the guidebook hasn't had a thorough updated in 20 years and there are 23 separate areas to deal with, I think we are doing pretty well.