Customer Reviews

Red Rock Canyon: A Climbing Guide (Climbing Guides)

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Just got back from Red Rocks. For sport climbing this is not the best book. Its inaccurate and not easy to use. All the locals told us that this is the WORST of the many books out there.

Very hard to tell if a climb is sport or trad or just happens to have a few bolts from the descriptions. Also, bolt counts are wrong- we got on what appeared to be a warm-up 5.8 but it had serious decking potential.

DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK. Get Red Rocks: A climber's guide instead. You will be happier.

Great more/less comprehensive guide to Red Rocks. Since, it covers a wide breadth, expect some Beckey-like descriptions for less popular routes. Also, I found that some ratings differ from consensus on Mtn. Proj.

This black-and-white guide was quickly outdone by Jerry Handren's guide: Red Rocks: A Climber's Guide. Check out: [...]

If you're looking to boulder in Red Rocks, which isn't covered in either book, check out Southern Nevada Bouldering Southern Nevada Bouldering by Tom Moulin. It's jam packed with color photos and has comprehensive beta for ALL the bouldering in Red Rocks.

Nice photos but inaccurate descriptions. Approaches in Red Rocks are notoriously long, on more than one occasion a route was described as being in full sun or full shade only to discover the opposite was true once at the base. We were quite frustrated with the book's misinformation. Routes were also poorly described. It lead our party to wonder if the author forgot to proofread the manuscript.

Really useful. Well laid out book for Red Rocks. Used on a couple of ocassions and always accurate.

Do not confuse this fire kindle with Red Rocks: A Climber's Guide. I regret buying this book as it is wholly inaccurate and guaranteed to confuse.

There are lots of mistakes in this book, including wrong names of crags on topo overviews, wrong grades on climbs, bad directions, and more routes in the topo in the book than in reality.

I got this book for a trip to Red Rock Canyon in March 2007. It was one of two books brought by our party -- the other was Rock Climbing Red Rocks, 3rd. The books varied slightly on route descriptions (three pitches vs. two longer ones), but as always, the guide books were just a guide and actual conditions led us to make some different decisions on the route. The route ratings were very helpful -- there are tons of routes to climb and with only a short trip, we focused on only the top-rated routes, and we were not disappointed!