Favorite Guidebook?
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Blue Lines by Don Mellor |
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Squamish Select |
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Tensleep for sure. Come up with a unique way to rate climbs and you win in my book. Stars are over-rated, I want to know how many kittens that route deserves! |
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Oops, Kirby said blue lines, not Mellor's rock and ice guide. Which I did enjoy, but was far to vague to be considered a good good book. |
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When I read I guidebook I want: |
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Cameron Burns desert tower book because it's generally good enough and everything in there is boner worthy. Anything by Michael R. Kelsey because I'll give him ten bucks anytime! |
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I like the layout of the new RRG climbing guides, great color photos and directions. Lies and Propoganda from Ten Sleep is really entertaining as well. I'm a big fan of including historical info, our local Bozeman Area Rock Climbs does a good with this, it also includes a great section on the geology of the area. I think it's nice to include some extras so you have something to read when you're hanging around camp besides route descriptions. |
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+1 for Squamish Select |
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Toofast Topos: 50 Multipitch Climbs in Cochise Stronghold by Geir Hundal. Kick @SS, detailed topos, satellite imagery, full color, very cool historical timeline, entertaining history and descriptions, great foreword by Steve Grossman, and available in PDF or print . Well written, beautifully formatted, and great pictures all at an affordable price. I can't wait for the 2nd edition.
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Absolutely "lies and propaganda from Tensleep Canyon" With a mixture of irreverence and slander tells the story of a hardman hangout. Great pics too |
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Squamish Select |
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Squamish Select |
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Unbelievable nobody's mentioned the Climber's Guide to the Teton Range yet. Truly epic amount of research, history, artfully hand drawn topos, aerial photography... Best ever. |
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Teton Rock Climbs - the digital guide book on DVD by Gams is amazing. It lets you pick and print out custom topos and/overlays and photos. |
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BrettPurchase wrote:Squamish Select Red Rocks - Jerry Harden Leavenworth Guide The current exit 38 (north bend, wa) guide is a prime example of a terrible hard to use guide book.^ +10 Squamish Select by Marc Bourdon Red Rocks and North Conway Rock by Jerry HANDREN Leavenworth Rock by Viktor Kramar and Adirondack Rock mentioned above are probably the 4 guide books that stand out in my mind as the "Best of the Best". They cover a diverse range and area of climbing (single pitch to LONG multis, numerous crags etc etc) and do it well with a good blend of photos, line topos, maps etc. Several of the Fixed Pin books have stood out to me but I haven'y had much "boots on the ground" time to confirm what my sense is. I like them though. Supertopo Guides are usually great if a bit limited in scope. Excellent line Topos. Wolverine puts out a nice variety of guides, maybe a smidge below the above because they use almost exclusively photo topos (lines on a picture of the cliff). Most of the time that's a-ok and quite useful but sometimes a good line topo makes this a bit more clear. RockFax and the Kalymnos Guide were very nice for overseas books. On my "to check out" list is the Dixie Craggers Atlas - new versions out recently... |
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I know I’m resurrecting an 2000+ day old thread, but... |