Download or read book Utah s West Desert written by James Garrett and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utah's West Desert is the best and only definitive guide to climbing granite, quartzite, limestone, sandstone, and ice in Utah's West Desert. This sturdy book includes geology, history, GPS coordinates, finder maps, trip planning information, and full-color action and photo overlays. Comprehensive coverage of many climbing areas never before available will add to your enjoyment of this vast region. It is a destination area of stark beauty, yet very accessible for brief or extended visits. This diverse collection of sport, traditional, big wall, and Alpine climbs makes this book a must-have for anyone going to visit Utah's remote West Desert.
Download or read book Ibex and Selected Climbs of Utah s West Desert written by James Garrett and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selected Climbs in the Desert Southwest written by Kris Fulsaas and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selected Climbs in the Desert Southwest written by Cameron Burns and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * The classic routes for the desert Southwest* A glovebox companion for every desert climber* Author Cameron Burns is a stickler for clean routes and clean climbing 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 the Desert Southwest comes in. A longtime, expert desert climber, Cam Burns separates the wheat from the chaff and offers a sampling of the southwest's absolutely finest areas, spires, and walls. For climbers with limited time or for those seeking to climb the most classic desert routes, this guide is all they'll need. The more than 130 climbing routes in western Colorado and southern Utah included are not only the most fun, the most elegant, and the most historically interesting, they are also the cleanest routes. Each detailed route description includes difficulty rating, time, approach, equipment, special considerations, and the descent.
Download or read book Explorer s Guide Utah written by Christine Balaz and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utah: An Explorer’s Guide introduces the reader to the best of the state’s accommodations, restaurants, and attractions. Emphasizing the appeal of Utah’s natural beauty and adventure, this guidebook includes some of the nation’s best skiing, mountain biking, and hiking, as well as galleries, entertainment, and traditional tourist attractions, including Mormon points of interest. Each item was selected for quality, location, variety, uniqueness, and regional and historical significance.
Download or read book Hiking Climbing Exploring Western Utah s Jack Watson s Ibex Country written by Michael R. Kelsey and published by Kelsey Publishing (Utah). This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Basin National Park written by Gretchen M. Baker and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2012-04-14 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Basin National Park is in large part a high-alpine park, but it sits in one of America’s driest, least populated, and most isolated deserts. That contrast is one facet of the diversity that characterizes this region. Within and outside the park are phenomenal landscape features, biotic wonders, unique environments, varied historic sites, and the local colors of isolated towns and ranches. Vast Snake and Spring Valleys, bracketing the national park, are also subjects of one of the West's most divisive environment contests, over what on the surface seems most absent but underground is abundant enough for sprawling Las Vegas to covet it—water.
Download or read book 2001 American Alpine Journal written by and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- Articles on all significant climbs of 2000-- Authors include some of the finest climbers of our time, such as Scott Backes, Marko Prezelj, Valeri Babanov, and Thomas Huber, as well as virtuoso newcomers Jonathon Copp and lan Parnell-- More than 150 photos, maps, and toposThis latest volume of climbing's journal of record offers the most complete picture available of who did what in 2000. Jonathon Copp relates the stunning accomplishments of his light and fast Karakoram expedition with Michael Pennings, while Steve House and Rolando Garibotti discuss the state of the art in Alaskan and Patagonian alpinism. If it happened in the world of climbing, it's in the AAJ.Founded in 1902, the American Alpine Club (AAC) is the leading national organization devoted to mountaineering and rock climbing, to the conservation and study of mountainous regions, and to representing the interests of the American climbing community. The AAC is based in Golden, Colorado.
Download or read book Rock n Road written by Tim Toula and published by Falcon Press Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rock climber's equivalent of a Rand McNally road atlas, this completely revised and updated new edition of Rock 'n' Road compiles information on over 3,000 climbing areas in all 50 states, Canada, and Mexico. The book offers location maps, detailed directions, star ratings, the kind of climbing and rock encountered, access issues, classic routes, and much more. The fundamental reference source for North American climbers.
Download or read book Utah Historical Quarterly written by J. Cecil Alter and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of charter members of the society: v. 1, p. 98-99.
Download or read book More Than It Hurts written by Emily Small and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen climbers and mountaineers tell their inspiring, insightful, hilarious, heart-warming and adrenaline filled stories of adventure and misadventure in Australia and beyond.
Download or read book Rock Climbing Utah written by Stewart M. Green and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utah is a magnificent landscape of startling diversity and beauty, manifested for climbers in more cliff miles of exposed rock than any other state. Fragile sandstone towers pierce the sky amid endless miles of vertical cliffs sometimes more than a half mile high; wondrous canyon walls of cobblestone and limestone overhang at dizzying angles; and granite domes and slabs recline on sunny mountain slopes. Rock Climbing Utah is the only guide available that covers all the major climbing areas in the state. Traditional and sport climbers from the beginner to expert will find a superb sampling of hundreds of routes in the 25 areas covered--including 300 new routes that were not in the first edition. This fully revised and expanded guidebook offers first-hand information for climbers, including area overviews and climbing histories, route betas and topos, color maps and photos, equipment recommendations, approach and descent information, and listings for shops, gyms, and guide services. Stunning action photos round out the package to make Rock Climbing Utah an essential source for visitng and local climbers alike.
Download or read book The 11 000ers of the Canadian Rockies written by Bill Corbett and published by Rocky Mountain Books Ltd. This book was released on 2009 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Canadian Rockies Award at the 2005 Banff Mountain Book Festival, this comprehensive climber's guide and history of the 54 11,000-foot peaks in the Canadian Rockies celebrates in words and images these breathtaking summits and the wilderness settings over which they tower. This book uniquely captures and distills the lively and frequently forgotten accounts of the pioneering climbers and their various routes. Each entry provides a vivid description of the peak, an extensive history of the early ascents of it and a detailed description of moderate to intermediate routes, including access and approach information. Now extensively updated, the text is liberally illustrated with route and climbing photos, both contemporary and historical, and includes detailed area maps.
Download or read book Backpacker written by and published by . This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.
Download or read book Canyon Hiking Guide to the Colorado Plateau written by Michael R. Kelsey and published by Kelsey Pub. This book was released on 1999 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Beehive Ice written by Nathan Smith and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-20 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
