Rock Climbing Utah (Paperback)

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Often considered the mecca of American rock climbing, Utah has almost as many routes as it has inhabitants. This is best reflected in Stewart Green's hefty guide, which weighs in at a whopping 537 pages. Green has indeed taken an admirable stab at rounding up descriptions, photos, and beta for every route worth mentioning. He takes the reader from the remote corners of Castle Valley and the Island in the sky to the oft-traveled crags of Salt Lake's Little and Big Cottonwood canyons. Route descriptions are thorough and easily understood. More importantly, most of the route maps are superimposed over actual photographs to insure that readers actually find the walls they are after. Green emphasizes the use of clean aid techniques and doesn't include routes that don't take clean aid. This is admirable and is aimed at protecting the soft rock of some of the desert climbs.

Product Description

Utah, with its spectacular slickrock canyon country and towering Wasatch Front, boasts a diverse selection of rock climbing areas and routes. With this comprehensive guidebook, climbers can choose from more than 25 areas, including Zion's soaring sandstone big-walls, difficult limestone testpieces in American Fork and Logan canyons, and the fragile desert spires surrounding Moab. Provides detailed maps, cliff topos, route descriptions and beta, and travel and camping information.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 552 pages
• Publisher: Falcon; 1st edition (April 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1560445947
• ISBN-13: 978-1560445944
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #496,808 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Climb On! to the Wonders of Utah, March 27, 2000

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Rock Climbing Utah offers the most comprehensive guide to climbing the best rock Utah has to offer. Utah boasts some of the most diverse, beautiful, and bizarre rock formations imaginable. From the granite canyons of the Wasatch, to the lunar-like sandstone of Canyonlands Rock Climbing Utah will introduce you to the most unbelievable experiences in your climbing career. It is difficult to cover such a wide spectrum of climbing routes, ecosystem changes, and skill levels but this guide does a wonderful job. For a broad overview of underrated climbing that often rivals Yosemite, this guide is difficult to match.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great guide to a climbing paradise, July 9, 2009

By	John D. Mattson "adventure writer" (Nederland, CO) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The state of Utah offers an incredible amount of fabulous rock climbing routes on a diverse spectrum of rocks, and Stewart Greene has carefully documented a major portion of them. The descriptions, photos, and maps are excellent, and he also includes equipment recommendations and climbing history. Some of the very popular areas may have superior documentation, but this is a great general guide to the state, and will give the purchaser a long list of incredible projects. Dancing on the Edge of an Endangered Planet