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Located in the fir and aspen of the Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Logan Canyon, at 4500-plus feet elevation, offers climbers a variety of over 275 bolted face climbs and naturally protected crack climbs. The canyon's west to east orientation allows climbers to climb on the sunny or shady side of the...

Colorado & Utah The desert southwest is a prime destination for some of the best rock climbing in the United States, with hundreds of documented routes. But how are climbers to find out which routes are the best routes, the jewels in this desert crown? That's where Selected Climbs in...

This eagerly awaited fifth edition of Cicerone's highly successful Winter Climbs in the Cairngorms guide has been completely updated by the author - climber and instructor Allen Fyffe. Written by Allen FyffeSections include: Coire an t-Sneachda Coire an Lochain Creag an Leth-Choin Carn Etchachan Shelter Stone Crag Hell's Lum Crag...

If you love the big mountains, remote alpine walls, multi-pitch traditional crags, ice climbs, and mixed alpine winter routes you need this book in your library and your pack. Written by Bernard GillettAreas covered include: Arrowhead Cathedral Spires Cathedral Wall Chiefs Head Diamond Half Mountain Hallett Peak Keyboard of the...

The classic Maximus Press guidebook, Owens River Gorge Climbs, includes photo diagrams and topos for most of the major cliffs. Over 700 routes are included in this comprehensive guide to California’s premier sport climbing crag Written by Marty Lewis PaperbackQ36 Pages

South Lake Tahoe offers exquisite year-round climbing for every ability and taste. Trad climbers can jam smooth Yosemite-like cracks at Sugarloaf or Eagle Lake, pull on steep knobs at Phantom Spires, lead their first multi-pitch route at Lover’s Leap. Sport climbers can clip bolts at Luther Rock, Luther Spires and...

A Climber's Guide to Sedona and Oak Creek Canyon CASTLES IN THE SAND: A Climber's Guide to Sedona and Oak Creek Canyon is the ultimate guide to the modern routes in the Sedona area. Featuring never before published contemporary routes, as well as the worthy established classics, this is the...

The sixth edition of Cicerone's guide to winter climbs around Ben Nevis and Glen Coe on its predecessors as the best guide to some of Scotland's leading winter climbing. With 725 routes, including many new routes, it gives scope for routes of all grade and types - buttress, gully or...

The first comprehensive guide to ice climbing throughout Colorado. Written by Cameron BurnsR40 Pages

Great guide to the Mammoth area. Written by Marty Lewis & John Moynier 96 pages Paperback

One of the World's Great Alpine Rockclimbing Centres This is the first truely definitive and first-ever Canadian guide to the Bugaboo Spires and the Vowell Group. The Bugaboos has 360 pages and includes over 200 outstanding images, photo-topos, line-topos and maps, and 267 climbs. This is one of the most...

National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) instructors Mike Wood and Colby Coombs have teamed up to write this definitive climbing book targeting the more experienced climber. This is the ultimate guidebook for every climber intending to scale the mountains of one of the nation's last best wild places. Alaska: A Climbing...

This intermediate-level guide addresses tools, skills, and techniques used in alpine terrain including rock, snow, ice, and glaciers at moderate altitude-approximately 5000 meters (16,000 feet) and lower. The technical protection systems are covered, of course. But 30 years of alpine climbing experience has convinced the authors that mastery-and safety-lie in...

Selected free climbs including Rasberry Rocks and Iron Mountain This guidebook includes close to 300 free routes - hundreds more exist in The Needles, both in the areas mentioned in the guide and in areas not covered. Routes were chosen for quality, popularity and relative ease of access. All degrees...

A Rock Climbing Guide to the Limestone of Rifle Mountain Park A guide to the limestone of Rifle Mountain Park in Colorado. Over 200 of the best hard sport routes to be found anywhere. The information and topos have been done by Dave Pegg and this book is the best...

The guidebook to rock climbing on Las Vegas and Great Basin limestone.

In this second edition mixed rock and ice climbs in the Canadian Rockies, Sean Isaac describes some of the world's most challenging routes. Whether you crave inverted trytooling, multi-pitch horror shows or safely-bolted moderates, Mixed Climbs in the Canadian Rockies has it all. Beginners and hardcore alike can explore 295...

Written by one of the leading ice climbers in North America, Waterfall Ice covers a wide selection of ice climbs ranging from practice areas through moderately graded routes to today's hard mixed waterfall ice and rock climbs. This guide covers both the Alberta and B.C. sides of the Canadian Rockies...

Yosemite Big Walls is the most current, detailed, and accurate guide to Yosemite's most classic walls such as El Cap and Half Dome. This 208 page full-color printed guidebook includes unprecedented route detail such as climbing strategy, retreat information, descent topos, pitch lengths, and gear recommendations for each pitch. In...

This is the the definitive new edition of the classic guide to the ice-climbs of Southwest British Columbia. Over 430 climbs are listed, all the classics and many outstanding new routes. A collectors item. PaperbackR28 Pages

Smith Rock State Park. It was on the impressive crags of this Oregon hideaway that American sport climbing came into its own, and to this day, some of the hardest climbs in the States are found on these walls. Alan Watts, who has played a lead role in the development...

A select guide to 25 of Arizona's best and most popular climbing areas. Author: Stewart M. Green First EditionU28 Pages Publisher: Falcon Paperback

This revised and updated book features topos and photos as well as text describing this popular Southern California area. Written by Bob Gaines and Randy Vogel Published on 07/01/2001 PaperbackR40 Pages

Revised and updated. This is a short topo guide to the most popular of the great routes and crags of Yosemite Valley. The intent is to give an overview of the major routes on El Capitan, Half Dome and the cragging areas of Cookie Area, Glacier Point Apron, and Arch...

Select Ice Climbs in Southern Montana and Northern Wyoming Winter Dance is the culmination of Josephson's 15 years thinking and writing about ice climbs. Bringing together the stories and photographs from 25 years of route development, Winter Dance represents the first time, in-depth and comprehensive coverage has been written for...