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Best guidebook for Shelf Road?

Greg Barnes · · American Safe Climbing Asso… · Joined Apr 2006 · Points: 3,679
Elsabiro Finkleshidwrote:

Also some inaccuracies as to what had mussy hooks vs bolt anchors.

From what I could see its the best guidebook for the area but you still need to have MP open if you haven’t been to the area before.

Several volunteers supported by the ASCA have been adding hooks to hundreds of routes at Shelf this winter, so no guidebook is going to be accurate on hooks vs. chains. 

If you like the hooks, and newly replaced bolts instead of old rusty ones, please donate to the ASCA at: https://safeclimbing.org

Deredacted Young · · Denver, CO · Joined May 2012 · Points: 172
Elsabiro Finkleshidwrote:

So....just got back from a week at Shelf.  The guidebook looks neat, but It (still?) has this weird format where it switches from left to right after being right to left. I also was on routes NOT in the guidebook - this might be because I was on easier routes (5.7-5.10c) but at the same time...not like I was trekking way off into nowhere (I stayed at Cactus, Piggybank, Quarry) so not sure why the routes weren’t listed. Also some inaccuracies as to what had mussy hooks vs bolt anchors.

From what I could see its the best guidebook for the area but you still need to have MP open if you haven’t been to the area before.

Thanks for the update. Bummer about the route ordering. And sounds like there are still listing/indexing issues. It'll probably disappoint so I'll save my money and use the previous version coupled with MP.

Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

Colorado
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