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Can I borrow your Sonora Pass guidebook?

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DylanJK · · Burbank, CA · Joined Jan 2011 · Points: 391

Anybody in Berkeley/Oakland have the Sonora Pass guidebook they're willing to let me borrow for this weekend?

I'll give you (you keep them!)... 3 medium sized nuts in good condition.  Sorry, I'm trying to get creative in making it worth it for you, something besides the usual 6 pack.  

-Dylan

Stephanie Ger · · Bishop, CA · Joined Mar 2017 · Points: 1

I have the sonora pass guidebook (in Berkeley) that you could borrow for the weekend - PM me and we can sort out when/where to do the hand-off.

TaylorP · · Pump Haus, Sonora · Joined Oct 2016 · Points: 50

To jump on this...anyone in the Bay area have a copy that they'd want to sell?

Mark Fletcher · · Clovis, CA · Joined Nov 2013 · Points: 22

If you know the right place to go this weekend at Sonora Pass Highway area, you could buy the guidebook from the author.  You can also buy the guidebook from SNAC in Sonora, which is on your way to SPH.

DylanJK · · Burbank, CA · Joined Jan 2011 · Points: 391

Thank you, Stephanie! I sent you a message and I promise I won't sell it to TaylorP :)

Joe Manlove · · Sonora, CA · Joined Jan 2009 · Points: 108

Support your local guidebook author. Buy the book. Also, yes you can get it at SNAC.

TaylorP · · Pump Haus, Sonora · Joined Oct 2016 · Points: 50

Unfortunately I'll be passing through Sonora too late to hit the store. If Brad is out there, I'd happily buy one off him! Wish my local gym carried it

Brad Young · · Twain Harte, CA · Joined Apr 2009 · Points: 631

Thanks for the support.

Although I probably don't work as much as I should on distribution of the book, we'll be home all weekend if you do want to stop by. And by "home" I mean not gone for Labor Day. We'll be in and out, at the crags with a big crowd of visiting climbers and sharing dinner with local friends.

Stopping by would be easy too; we live 9/10 of a mile off Highway 108, on the way up the hill. Call if you do want to stop: (209) five eight six 0776.

Thanks again.

TaylorP · · Pump Haus, Sonora · Joined Oct 2016 · Points: 50

Awesome thanks Brad. Do you accept PayPal/venmo? Btw, got on Pound of Flesh last weekend....very appropriately named! Hoping to check out Thnnhr #1 and the other wide stuff at Lost World this weekend

Brad Young · · Twain Harte, CA · Joined Apr 2009 · Points: 631

Taylor, no, no high-tech methods of payment, sorry. But if you do want to stop by to get one, wouldn't just cash work?

As a bonus, we sell them for a little cheaper when they're bought direct (and no sales tax). Plus, bonus, bonus, you'd get to be barked at by the two most gorgeous retrievers in existence.

Very impressed that you tried A Pound of Flesh. When Dennis and I did that, we were each in our thirties and it pushed up to our absolute limits. I remember calling it 5.10d (and it's that in the 2001 book). Scuffy B, who's as much an offwidth expert as anyone I've ever known, gently corrected the rating some years ago. If he hadn't chimed in I would never have given it that rating because there's "no way" I can climb that hard an offwidth.

TaylorP · · Pump Haus, Sonora · Joined Oct 2016 · Points: 50

No problem, just wanted to make sure so I can stop at an ATM. Haha well I tried it....wasn't pretty

Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

Northern California
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