Customer Reviews

Heel and Toe: The Climbs of Greater Vedauwoo, Wyoming

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My wife and I are 50ish and have been climbing for three years. We cut our outdoor teeth on Veedauwoo and found Heel and Toe invaluable. Based on our knowledge of the area and compared with other guidebooks we've used, the book is an excellent aid. Area directions and photos are great, route descriptions accurate, and route grades on target. Some tongue-in-cheek humor mixed in (Jurassic Park). More important than our assessment, it is the guide that is used. Skip and Rob did a great job. Hope there's a sequel with updates.

The Vedauwoo area is unique in it's diversity of climbs and the climbers that frequent this area. This Guide Book has captured both aspects: the wild and mystical Spirit of Vedauwoo and the Hard Core attitude of the climbers. It covers the range of climbs from the Raw Gut Beginners to the Hard Skinned Off-Width Crack climbers that Shred their way up impossible looking ascents. The photos and route lay-outs are simply the best of any guide book in the Rocky Mtn. region and route descriptions give you JUST enough information without taking all the Adventure out of the climb!! A MUST HAVE !! for any climber in the area.

Heel and Toe is a necessity for anyone planning on spending time climbing, hiking or camping at Vedauwoo. The maps and photographs clearly illustrate the area.

...I have found that this guide documents alot of the climbing at Vedauwoo very well, but misses the mark entirely in some cases. After getting to know the long time local climbers it is really sad to find out that Skip Harper has taken lots of liberties with renaming routes, or assigning grades to routes that he abviously has not done. I give his book a two star rating just because of the lack of investigation in some cases and the complete disregarding of history that he puts forth in his book.