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Olympic Mountains: A Climbing Guide (Climbing Guide) 4th Edition
 
 
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Book Description

April 2006
The only climbing guide devoted to Washington’s Olympic National Park—now completely updated and expanded with more than thirty percent additional new material. • New Alpine Rock, Crags and Sport Routes, and Bouldering sections added • Expanded historical and biographical anecdotes • GPS waypoints added for key route descriptions From the hard basalt lava peaks of Constance and The Brothers, to the high-angle faces of The Needles and Sawtooth Ridge, to the sandstone and vast glaciers of Mount Olympus, and hundreds of other mountains large and small: It’s the definitive climbing guide authored by Olympic Mountain Rescue (OMR), a group of volunteers dedicated to saving lives for the last 50 years through search, rescue, and mountain safety education. In preparing this new edition, OMR drew not only on their own extensive experience throughout the range, but also on the knowledge of the National Park and Forest Services and other organizations and climbers.

This greatly expanded new edition adds an Alpine Rock section featuring classic climbs, a Crags and Sport Routes section revealing several rock climbing challenges within a short walk from roads, plus great bouldering locations. In addition, there are enhanced route descriptions for "High Alpine Traverses" including refined Bailey Range data; new traverse legs have also been added.


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"A treasure of new information about our neighboring peaks." -- Kitsap Sun

"The book is a good starting point for any trip to the western Washington mountains." -- --Idaho Falls Post-Register

"This fourth edition of always-dependable Olympic Mountain Rescue's (OMR) Olympic Climbing Guide is certainly the best yet..." -- Olympic Park Associates Newsletter

About the Author

Founded in 1957, OLYMPIC MOUNTAIN RESCUE works primarily on the Olympic Peninsula, but has participated in many missions in other ranges, including Alaska’s Mount McKinley, as well as providing frequent assistance in the Cascade Range of Washington and Oregon.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 366 pages
  • Publisher: Mountaineers Books; 4 edition (April 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 089886206X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0898862065
  • Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #494,422 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A good guide to bad rock, September 4, 2008
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Timothy Byrne "tbyrnestl" (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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If you already know that you want to climb in the Olympics and want a some decent beta on the climbs, then this is not only the only guide out there for you, but it's really quite good. The route and approach descriptions are generally well detailed and accurate. The book includes scrambles, alpine routes, rock climbs, old school alpenstock und lederhosen ridge treks and even some bouldering areas.
If you don't already know that you want to climb in the Olympics and are thinking of buying this book to come up with some climbing ideas, look elsewhere. The Olympics are the last place you want to go for a few recreational climbs. There are indeed a few classic safe routes, mostly scrambles, on good rock. And there are a few decent alpine routes in these mountains. Mostly though, you've got a range of very poor quality basalt that is heavily weathered and breaks off readily. The book is full or routes with warnings about bad rock and the dangers of party inflicted rockfall.
So yes it's a great guide, but for the small percentage of climbers that want to tackle something a little wilder and less tracked out.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars only climbing guide to the Olympic Mountains (revised), June 26, 2007
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Mike Garrison (Covington, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Olympic Mountains: A Climbing Guide (Climbing Guide) 4th Edition (Paperback)
This is the fourth edition of what is, as far as I know, the only climbing guide to the Olympic Mountains. Most of the content of the book seems to be barely revised. In particular, many of the routes in the book are very simple sketches -- things like "follow the rocky ridge for 0.5 miles, class 3". However, what do you expect from a book which covers pretty much every summit on the peninsula?

What's new in this edition is two sections which try to bridge the gap between traditional guidebooks (like Beckey) and the modern crag climbing style of guidebook. The first section is called "Alpine Rock Climbs" and gives more detail about some of the class five routes (including a few route topos). The second new section is "Crags And Sport Routes", which is pretty much self-explanitory.

As before, the book also has sections on High Alpine Traverses and Winter Climbing. Also as before, the main part of the guidebook is organized by geography, with the mountains separated into seven "groups", separated by major river drainages.

Note: like Beckey, this is not a hiking or camping guide. It is assumed that if you want information on the approach trails, you will get that elsewhere.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Olympic Mountains #4, April 16, 2010
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This is a great guide and Amazon was a very good (and easy) place to get it.
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