New Yosemite Free Climbs Select Guidebook Almost Done - Call for Photos!

The idea is that you’ll be able to use the guide as a big cam on route. Haha

Billcoewrote:

How long ago did the other guidebook folks (Ed, Clint et all) start saying it was near ready? This thread is nearing 8 years and there was talk a lot earlier. If it ever gets produced it's gonna be a monster! 

They and George R.R. Martin are in a standoff to see who blinks first. 

Complete silence from the authors. Has anyone heard anything meaningful out of them in the past few years? Asking for a friend. 

Yes

A new season of Valley adventures is dawning......let's see those topos Yo!

Woot Woot! E

Will they find Hoffa first or show proof of concept of this guidebook? The ultimate blowhards. 

Let's give a round of applause to Ed, Clint, etal.   "CLAP CLAP CLAP"

10/10 

Yosemite Comprehensive Guide....done by insiders and the IN croud

True long game "GOT CHA"

SuperTopo came and went

Man back on the Moon (Including women and minorities)

Human Capable rockets to Mars

Middle School Algebra made easy for all

Mystery of the Pyramids....Solved

AREA 51 open for tours

JFK secret confessions of assassination by the trigger men.....located

Loch Ness Monster .... In a Zoo

Hoffa...Found

Earhart...Found and Confirmed

Jack the Ripper...Confirmed

Cleopatra's Tomb is located

DB COOPER and THE MONEY....FOUND IN Zihuatanejo

City of Atlantis ... rebuilt

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Then a comprehensive guide to Yosemite Climbs.

Kevin DeWeese wrote:

You people are why we don't deserve nice things 

If the binder Ed has shown me is what the book will eventually look like, then the only nice thing is going to be the volume of routes in the book

John Clarkwrote:

If the binder Ed has shown me is what the book will eventually look like, then the only nice thing is going to be the volume of routes in the book

Damn, that bad?

Kevin DeWeese wrote:

Fan of pretty photo overlays instead of actual topos?

Why not both? 

Haha - I'm interested in what folks think the future of the climbing guidebooks looks like? Seems like a pdf with embedded links can offer so much more than a print book, but I know folks like the print books too!

Erik Sloanwrote:

Haha - I'm interested in what folks think the future of the climbing guidebooks looks like? Seems like a pdf with embedded links can offer so much more than a print book, but I know folks like the print books too!

For bouldering apps with GPS will rule the future. Knowing that you are standing in front of the boulder, having a photo with the starts and general paths overlayed is awesome. 

I like the ability to print a single sheet from a pdf for the days climb. The old Green Meyers had a thing where you could pop the page out and take it. That was perfect, and if you climbed enough, you'd need to replace the whole thing as you destroyed the pages from your sweaty pockets and dirty hands-) . 

Kevin DeWeese wrote:

Because it’s not your guidebook

To be fair, it isn’t anyone’s, because it doesn’t practically exist yet. I do like a general overview photo with rough lines on section openers then basic black and white topos. I think that is pretty common in major guidebooks these days

Kevin DeWeese wrote:

Copywrite law would disagree... to be fair. 

Not following your point. You need another Monster to wake up? I remember you slammed them by the case at least in 2018/19. I’m just throwing out what I like to see in a guidebook, not saying I stole the manuscript, scanned it, returned it to where Ed keeps it under his beard, then tried to publish it in an attempt to undermine his years of hard work. I am curious if the large overview shots in the new tuolumne guidebook will be accompanied by more traditional topos.

Kevin DeWeese wrote:

I said it wasn't your guidebook so let them do their thing

You said it wasn't anyone's guidebook because it isn't finished yet.

I snarkily pointed out that copywrite provides ownership of work irrespective of whether it's been published or not

Keep up. 

It’s not snarky if you have to explain the snark.

I follow you though. We had lines crossed on meanings between points 2/3. My reading comprehension scores were always the worst on standardized tests

hey gang! Just wanted to see what the latest was on the most anxiously awaited guidebook in the history of guidebooks.

awaiting excitedly!

andre

If we hit 50 pages will the guidebook come out?

I’ve been refreshing for updates on Supertopo for over a decade with no luck. Please, fellow climbers, let’s push this to a critical mass and make our leaders act!

Woot! Release the sacred texts 

Holy crap!!! This is still going.