Review, New Oregon Rock Guide!

[wayne]

It is out, the Northwest Oregon Rock/Ice guide! I wasn't expecting it, and it surprised me greatly. The trend in Tims series gradually had less content as the new editions came out. This one obliterated that trend with an exhaustingly complete catalogue of nearly all of the major ares as well as dozens of the obscure. Such a treat for the adventure groveler. Areas include 80 different climbing areas from south to Eugene north to St Helens. East to Hells Canyon. From winter mixed on Illumination Rock, to a brief section on the Menagerie. He also included Gorge Ice! The Wolf Rock section is amazing. Absent is the Portland area crags, and the Beacon area, but he has covered that well in the past efforts. Not since the Dodge guide have we seen a book that covers so much of Northern Oregon.

Hats off to you Tim, and thanks for nearly 20 years of hard work in your public service to us all, Wayne

 

Buy it here, for surprisingly little $ : http://www.portlandrockclimbs.com/portland-rock-climbs

Its the 2nd book down the list.

[kevbone]

I have to agree with Wayne on this. This is Tim's best book IMO. It is full of information. Love it!

[ColinB]

2nd Wayne on this. The book is kickass and has a bunch of neat tucked away crags for those busy warm summer weekends. Thanks for the hard work Tim!

[shapp]

With all due respect, I fail to see how high valley has made it into yet another climbing book/publication even though I have enjoyed many winter and spring sunny afternoons at this crag.

[wayne]

Are you saying the place sucks?

 

I added a litttle more to the review on my blog , and crossed the line into blatant spam whore territory.

[shapp]

It is a miniscule crag, mostly crappy rock, highly over documented in another book (the Oregon weekend rock book and Rock n' Road) and a couple climbing mag articles, although there are a couple nice (but very short) lines. But what is really funny is that it is a northwest oregon climbing guide, with two areas in NE oregon, high valley and spring mt. Spring mountain has a lot of routes and would be worth a drive over from NW oregon. The only reason to go to high valley is if you live within a few miles and it is a nice sunny afternoon in winter or spring when other climbing options are not available or if you don't have the time to drive to Hells Canyon. Before I lived out there, we tried to find the crag when passing throgh on our way to Nevada, and never actually found it becasuee when driving up the canyon we passed right by the wall but never stopped because all we saw was miniscule choss basalt walls, and thought the book must have been wrong.

this is an example of about 1/2 the routes there:

Edited August 8, 2012 by shapp

[fgw]

great book! Tim was kind enough to send me a copy. Like his other work(s), fires me up for Oregon adventure climbing.