Download or read book Rock Climbing the San Francisco Bay Area written by Tresa Black and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rock Climbing the San Francisco Bay Area offers options for multiple ascents in more than 20 areas around the San Francisco Bay. In addition to the nuts and bolts of routes and ratings, information on coffee shops, and brewpubs, and other amenities in each area is included, along with notes on where rock climbers can take their four-footed climbing partners. Photographs, topos, and maps accompany the text.
Download or read book Bay Area Rock written by Thornburg and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diverse boulders and cliffs spread throughout the greater Bay Area provide the local climber with a bounty of climbing opportunity. This thoroughly researched 8th edition of Bay Area Rock introduces a surprising number of new climbs, boulders and top ropes, all within a two hour drive of San Francisco.
Download or read book Bay Area Bouldering written by Chris Summit and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first guide of its kind, Bay Area Bouldering includes over 600 boulder problems within a 1.5 hour drive of San Francisco. Included are over 30 areas from the North Coast, South Bay, East Bay, and San Francisco. All the classic spots are here: Castle Rock, Indian Rock, Mickeys Beach, as well as some lesser known areas. This book includes everything from cruiser jug hauls on sandy beaches to sloper wrestling in lush forests. + Over 600 boulder problems in 30+areas. + Dozens of color photos. + Topos, photo-diagrams, and detailed descriptions.
Download or read book Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area written by Mike Katz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-05-14 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Francisco’s rich and unique cultural history since its time as a gold rush frontier town has long made it a bastion of forward thinking and freedom of expression. It makes perfect sense, then, that both it and the surrounding Bay Area should prove to be a crucible for some of the most enduring and influential music of the rock and roll era. From the heady days of Haight-Ashbury in the ’60s to today, San Francisco and the Bay Area have provided a distinctive soundtrack to the American experience that has often been confrontational, controversial, enlightening, and always entertaining. Perhaps best known for the '60s psychedelic scene which included the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Santana, the Steve Miller Band, Sly & the Family Stone, and Janis Joplin, the Bay Area's rock and roll history twists and turns like Lombard Street itself. The first wave San Francisco punks wrought the Avengers and Dead Kennedys; punk later gripped the East Bay, giving us Green Day and Rancid. From the folk and blues eras through the chart-topping sounds of Journey and Huey Lewis & the News. The rock equivalent of Manifest Destiny carried wave upon wave of young musicians in search of fame, fortune and the great lost chord to Golden Gate City. San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area have collectively produced countless key figures in rock and roll, from musicians to journalists to entrepreneurs. The modern concept of the vast outdoor rock festival took root in and around San Francisco. The Bay Area is also where music history happened to artists from almost everywhere else: San Francisco is where the Beatles played their final concert and the Sex Pistols fell apart; where the Clash recorded much of their second album; where a drug-addled Keith Moon passed out during a concert by the Who only to be replaced behind the drum kit by an eager fan. Rock and roll is baked into the Bay Area’s culture and story to this day. A guide to the places that shaped the local scene and world-famous sound, the Rock and Roll Explorer Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area will take you to where music makers lived, rocked, performed, recorded, met, broke up, and much, much more.
Download or read book Geology of the San Francisco Bay Region written by Doris Sloan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-06-27 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You can't really know the place where you live until you know the shapes and origins of the land around you. To feel truly at home in the Bay Area, read Doris Sloan's intriguing stories of this region's spectacular, quirky landscapes."—Hal Gilliam, author of Weather of the San Francisco Bay Region "This is a fascinating look at some of the world's most complex and engaging geology. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in an understanding of the beautiful landscape and dynamic geology of the Bay Area."—Mel Erskine, geological consultant "This accessible summary of San Francisco Bay Area geology is particularly timely. We are living in an age where we must deal with our impact on our environment and the impact of the environment on us. Earthquake hazards, and to a lesser extent landslide hazards, are well known, but the public also needs to be aware of other important engineering and environmental impacts and geologic resources. This book will allow Bay Area residents to make more intelligent decisions about the geological issues affecting their lives."—John Wakabayashi, geological consultant
Download or read book Gimme Something Better written by Jack Boulware and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An oral history of the modern punk-revival?s West Coast Birthplace Outside of New York and London, California?s Bay Area claims the oldest continuous punk-rock scene in the world. Gimme Something Better brings this outrageous and influential punk scene to life, from the notorious final performance of the Sex Pistols, to Jello Biafra?s bid for mayor, the rise of Maximum RocknRoll magazine, and the East Bay pop-punk sound that sold millions around the globe. Throngs of punks, including members of the Dead Kennedys, Avengers, Flipper, MDC, Green Day, Rancid, NOFX, and AFI, tell their own stories in this definitive account, from the innovative art-damage of San Francisco?s Fab Mab in North Beach, to the still vibrant all-ages DIY ethos of Berkeley?s Gilman Street. Compiled by longtime Bay Area journalists Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor, Gimme Something Better chronicles more than two decades of punk music, progressive politics, social consciousness, and divine decadence, told by the people who made it happen.
Download or read book San Francisco Rock written by Jack McDonough and published by Chronicle Books (CA). This book was released on 1985 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the historical, social, and business reasons for the variety of pop musical forms fueled by the San Francisco music scene. Looks at satellite factors to the music such as radio, poster art, nightclubs, and studios. Features individual essays on the more than 100 significant recording bands to have emerged from the Bay Area.
Download or read book Geologic Trips written by Ted Konigsmark and published by Geopress. This book was released on 1998 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book San Francisco The Musical History Tour written by Joel Selvin and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 1996-04 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get the real skinny on the Bay Area's most illustrious rock and-roll, jazz, and blues musicians and their favorite digs from the one cat who should know—the San Francisco Chronicle's longtime music critic Joel Selvin. Here are the stories, legends, and secrets behind the clubs, recording studios, famous homes, and final resting places of dozens of music greats, from Jimi Hendrix to Linda Ronstadt. With rare archival photographs of pivotal events and places, this lively compendium will captivate both resident and visiting music fans.
Download or read book Bay Area Rock written by Jim Thorburg and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mammoth Area Rock Climbs written by Marty Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1996-07 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bay Area Wild written by and published by Sierra Club Books for Children. This book was released on 1997 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nestled among the cities and suburbs of the San Francisco Bay Area is the most extensive system of wild greenbelts in the nation. Renowned adventurer and wilderness photographer Galen Rowell has created the ultimate tribute to the place where he was born and raised. His lyrical text, combined with 173 spectacular color photographs, presents a unique view of the Bay Area.
Download or read book Northern California Bouldering written by Chris Summit and published by Wilderness Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Northern California Bouldering includes more than 700 boulder problems ranging from the Bay Area to Tahoe, and extending north along the coast. Classic areas such as Donner and Castle Rock are included of course, but there are also 10 completely new areas and more than 200 problems that have never been covered in a guide before. Author Chris Summit personally climbed nearly all of the problems in the book in order to get the most first-hand, insider beta possible.
Download or read book Rock Climbing Washington written by Jeff Smoot and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated edition of Rock Climbing Washington features more than 1,500 routes throughout the state of Washington. Explore the granite cliffs of Index, Leavenworth, Darrington, and Tieton River Canyon; tackle the exposed alpine routes on the spires at Washington Pass; or hang from steep sport climbs at North Bend, Frenchman Coulee, and Marcus and China Bend near Spokane.
Download or read book Rock Climbing Guide to the Castle Rock Area written by Bruce Morris and published by . This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Schurman Rock written by Jeff Smoot and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part history, part biography, part climbing guide, Schurman Rock: A History & Guide describes the design and construction of Schurman Rock, the world's first artificial climbing wall, built in 1938-39 at Camp Long in Seattle, Washington. The book includes a history of the creation of Camp Long by by William G. Long, a Superior Court judge, who seized the opportunity to turn an unused 68-acre tract of swampy forest land into a wilderness camp for youth, and a biography of Clark Schurman, a Scoutmaster and Chief Climbing Guide at Mount Rainier, who envisioned and then built his "dream rock" to provide a place to teach mountaineering skills to youth. Thousands of kids and adults, including Fred Beckey and Jim and Lou Whittaker, learned to climb on Schurman Rock over the past 80 years. In 1938, Schurman published an article describing 22 routes on the rock--"short bits" as he called them. This book expands on this with a guide to several boulder problems on the rock. Includes many historic photos and a foreword by Pacific Northwest climbing legend Jim Whittaker.
Download or read book Rock Climbing Desert Rock III written by Eric Bjornstad and published by Falcon Guides. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive coverage of technical climbing routes from Colorado National Monument to Mystery Towers.
