Colorado Guidebooks

[fern]

 

I'm looking to borrow or acquire some guidebooks for an upcoming road-trip

 

areas:

Black Canyon

Unaweep Canyon

any other non-sandstone areas that will be dry in April/May

 

PM if you can help me out, any beta welcome.

[matt_warfield]

Since there is so much climbing in Colorado, the best thing would be to acquire the Rock Climbing Colorado book (equivalent of the Smoot book for Washington) which gives an overview of the major areas and most popular routes and then get specific guides to areas you are interested in. Boulder area should be prime then and think about Lumpy Ridge (coolish until May) if you like trad granite.

[fern]

 

yes ... I should get the guidebooks ... that's what I asked for isn't it? You wanna sell me one? or lend me one?

[DirtyHarry]

Black Canyon. Cool. I want to go climbing there too.

[griz]

 

 

 

 

[BachelorTravis]

Hi Fern

 

How long are you hoping to borrow those guidebooks? How soon do you need them?

 

Trav

[fern]

see PM (click the flashing envelope in the top left corner)

[JayB]

There's plenty of free-beta available on www.climbingboulder.com.

 

Shelf will be beautiful and sunny then. Cool place to hang out even if the climbing is not your cup-o-tea.

[griz]

climbingboulder is mountainproject.com now

 

didn't you get the memo?

[JayB]

I guess the site outgrew it's name, but I thought it was somehow appropriate given Boulder's self image as the epicenter of all things climbing.

 

You hit McCurdy Park Tower yet? Worth spending a three-day weekend there once the monsoon/lightning season starts to ease-up somewhat.

 

But I guess I should really be posting this in the new Hijack Fern's Threads Forum

[Off_White]

That's cool, looks like she's going on another multi-month climbing road trip, she deserves to have her thread hijacked.

[griz]

mmm...purdy rock.

 

no, i have not climbed it before but looks like something i should...

 

[crazy_t]

Have you climbed in Eldo? The South Platte?

 

April you can sometimes get the epic front range dumps (once every year or 2), but usually if that happens it snows hard for a day or two then melts off quickly. Otherwise it's in great shape those months. If you haven't climbed Eldo, you should. It's metamorphosed sandstone, but doesn't feel or climb like "sandstone". I have Rossiter's Eldo book you could borrow and could give you recomendations, beta etc. The South Platte is also awesome. Granite, cracks and faces, clean, not too many people, lots of crags, towers. Both beautiful areas with lots of amazing quality short + long trad routes.

 

But maybe you already know this...

Edited February 14, 2006 by crazy_t

[JayB]

mmm...purdy rock.

 

no, i have not climbed it before but looks like something i should...

 

 

I think it may be my single favorite spot in Colorado, and I'm sad I didn't manage to get there for more than a single outing.

 

The camping is Garden of Eden quality, the scenery is stunning, the approach is just long enough to weed out the crowds, and the climbing is just incredible. Mostly grade-IIIish choose-your-own adventure type climbing. If I get a second I''ll scan and post some old pics.

[fern]

I want guidebooks

 

anyone lending me or selling me a guidebook will get a lollipop

[JayB]

I'll mail you my Stewart Green guidebook if you'll mail it back when you are done. You can actually borrow all of my Colorado Guidebooks. How soon do you need them? It might be at least 2-3 days before I could get them in the mail.

[fern]

 

I knew you were a lollipop fan JayB.

 

I will PM you an address.

 

I will return them to you before I even leave on the trip which is not until April, but I would like to do some research and planning in advance.

 

thanks

[JayB]

Word. You can actually hang onto them for the full trip if you want though, as looking at them just makes me depressed. I thought I was going to break down and cry when I watched a program on "The Rocky Mountain Amtrak Tour" on New Hampshire Public TV the other night.

[plexus]

Hey Fern,

 

I would strongly suggest talking to some locals for some beta in Black Canyon, long, long, long committing routes with finicky weather that time of year. I'll be at Shelf on the second and third weekends of March if the wx complies.

 

Also don't get the Climbing Colorado guidebook, found its only useist for camping toilet paper now.

[fern]

thanks. I am sure they are extra long and committing and the weather super double finicky, on account of it being Colorado and all.

[Dru]

yeah, double secret finick

[EWolfe]

I only got a few pages left in mine.

[Cairns]

thanks. I am sure they are extra long and committing and the weather super double finicky, on account of it being Colorado and all.

 

Don't underrate CO. It may not be as big as BC, except on road maps, but you have to remember how many super duper climbers live there.

 

Sorry to have nothing of substance to add unless you want to borrow or preferably keep all my old Climbing and R&I.

[chriss]

Fern,

 

Did you get the guidebooks you were looking for?

 

I have 4-5, the state book and some others. Most are older, 80s-90s, but the routes haven't moved to much.

 

chris

[fern]

 

I haven't got any yet, but JayB said he would send some. I don't know which ones. One in particular I would like is the KC Baum guide to climbing around Grand Junction.

I don't need any bouldering or sport-climbing guidebooks though.