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Owens River Gorge Climbs
The Climbing Guide
to the Owens River Gorge
Marty Lewis
Eastern Sierra
Climbing Guides Vol. 1
October 2005 - 10th Edition
$30.00 - 256 pages - 5.5” x 8.5”
ISBN: 0-9676116-8-7
•Gotham City
•Social Platform
•Great Wall of China
•Eldorado Roof
•Dilithium Crystal
•Gorgeous Towers
Greatly improved, the long awaited expanded and revised edition of the classic Maximus Press guidebook, Owens River Gorge Climbs, includes photo diagrams and topos for most of the major cliffs. Along with the new climbs added, there is a lavish selection of action photos. Over 700 routes are included in this comprehensive guide to California’s premier sport climbing crag.
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A Climber’s Guide to Pinnacles National Monument
Brad Young
October 2007 - 1st Edition
$35.00 - 406 pages - 6” x 9”
ISBN: 0-9797421-0-1
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For more than 70 years, Pinnacles National Monument has been a popular rock climbing destination. The Monument is near the San Francisco Bay Area, the San Joaquin Valley, and several central coast communities, attracting many climbers from each area and from more distant locations. This book details climbing at Pinnacles, using a combination of maps, topos and photographs to locate and describe over 800 climbing routes. Many of these routes are well known and popular. Others are recently established or newly discovered or reported. The book also covers local traditions, first ascent information and Pinnacles climbing history.
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Climbers’ Guide:
Riverside Quarry
Louie Anderson
April 2005 - 1st Edition
$19.95 - 124 pages - 5.5” x 8.5”
ISBN: 0-9766630-1-5
Louie Anderson Publisher
The Riverside Quarry offers superb climbing on steep, featured granite. Unlike other regional areas, the routes here are long, many of them over 100 feet in length. Not only will you find sport climbing, but a handful of excellent quality crack and aid climbs as well. All of this on a cliff that’s centrally located to all of Southern California, and with one of the shortest approaches around.
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Eastern Sierra Ice
Robert SP Parker
January 2006 - 1st Edition
$14.99 - 56 pages - 5.5” x 8.5”
No ISBN
Self Published
This is the first guide to specifically cover the best of waterfall and alpine ice in the Eastern Sierra of California. The waterfall areas include, Lee Vining, June Lake, Lundy Canyon and Parker Canyon. The alpine routes include more well known routes of the Palisades as well as lesser known classics such as Mt. Thompson and Mt. Gilbert. Best of all it is in full color throughout with detailed descriptions written by a professional mountain guide who has climbed the routes many times.
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Ski Touring the
Eastern High Sierra
Don Douglass, Chris Lombardo
1990 - 1st Edition
$8.95 - 96 pages - 5.5” x 8.5”
ISBN: 0-938665-08-1
Fine Edge Productions
Ski touring the Eastern High Sierra: the quiet carefree way to see the winter backcountry in some of the finest cross-country skiing in the Western U.S. This guide covers the classic Eastern Sierra Trailheads between 7,000 feet and 9,000 feet elevation – Bisop Creek, Rock Creek, Mammoth Lakes, and June Lake – with a chapter on the austere and haunting White Mountains. |
Secrets of Sierra Fishing
Jack Holder and Haskell Cape
2006 - 2nd Edition
$24.95 - 376 pages - 5.5” x 8.5”
ISBN: 0-9707209-0-4
Jack Holder and Haskell Cape Publishers
The complete guide to fifty of the best roadside trout fishing locations.
- Campgrounds
- Lodging
- Marinas
- Launch Ramps
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Bishop Bouldering Guide
Wills Young, Mick Ryan
April 2007 - 1st Edition
$36.00 - 352 pages - 6” x 9”
ISBN: 0-9721609-9-5
Wolverine
The town of Bishop, in eastern California, is a boulderer’s paradise, one of the few places in the world where a high concentration of world-class bouldering combines with magnificent scenery, convenient amenities, and near-perfect weather. Bishop Bouldering details more than 2000 problems at this internationally popular climbing destination.
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Smith Rock Select
A color guide to the best routes
Jonathan Thesenga
June 2006 - 1st Edition
$19.95 - 88 pages - 6” x 9”
ISBN: 0-9721609-6-4
Wolverine
Smith Rock is where it all began — the birthplace of American sport climbing. The soaring orange walls of this Oregon State Park have some of the best and most celebrated climbs in the country, and a wealth of terrain both sport and trad, that will challenge climbers of all levels and ability. Discover it for yourself with this select guide to almost 300 of the best routes. |
Smith Rock Select
A color guide to the best routes
Jonathan Thesenga
June 2006 - 1st Edition
$19.95 - 88 pages - 6” x 9”
ISBN: 0-9721609-6-4
Wolverine
Smith Rock is where it all began — the birthplace of American sport climbing. The soaring orange walls of this Oregon State Park have some of the best and most celebrated climbs in the country, and a wealth of terrain both sport and trad, that will challenge climbers of all levels and ability. Discover it for yourself with this select guide to almost 300 of the best routes.
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Hueco Tanks
The Essential Guide to America’s Bouldering Mecca
Matt Wilder
November 2004 - 1st Edition
$32.95 - 288 pages - 6” x 9”
ISBN: 0-9721609-3-0
Wolverine
Hueco Tanks is one of the best bouldering areas in the world. As befits its status, it now has a world-class guidebook. Written by certified Hueco guide Matt Wilder, who has spent the last 7 winters researching the book, it covers all of the bouldering in the entire Park.
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New England Bouldering
Tim Kemple & Pete Ward
March 2004 - 1st Edition
$24.95 -
160 pages -6” x 9”
ISBN: 0-9721609-2-2
Wolverine
Comprehensive guidebook to New England’s best bouldering areas written by Tim Kemple with historical sections and additional material by Pete Ward. Covers Lincoln Woods, Pawtuckaway, Metro Boston, Western Mass, Rumney, Smuggler’s Notch, and McKenzie Pond. Contains over 20 high-quality action photographs and invaluable Beta from experts Kemple and Ward.
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