Rock Climbing Red Rocks, 3rd (Paperback)

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Product Description

Climbers come from all over the world to experience the magic and beauty of climbing at Red Rocks, but they often have only a few days to climb and don't want to invest in a huge guidebook. That's why Todd Swain, author of the popular Rock Climbing Red Rocks, has taken the "best of the best" out of that volume and put it into this smaller book. At less than half the cost, Classic Rock Climbs: Red Rocks is perfectly suited to the traveling climber on a tight budget, providing information on 200 classic climbs at this world-renowned area. From one-pitch clip-ups in The Gallery to multi-pitch routes in Black Velvet Canyon, this book will keep you climbing for days, but leave you with enough cash to hit the casino buffets a few more times. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

From the Back Cover

Climbers come from all over the world to experience the magic and beauty of climbing at Red Rocks. From the steep, juggy sport routes in The Gallery to the awesome, multipitch face routes on The Black Velvet Wall, Red Rocks offers climbers of all tastes and abilities years of entertainment on superb sandstone. The setting is unsurpassed and the weather is always warm, making Red Rocks a premier destination for winter climbing. Located just minutes from downtown Las Vegas, Red Rocks also offers traveling climbers many options for rest-day activities. Completely updated and expanded, <i>Rock Climbing Red Rocks</i> (formerly <i>Red Rocks Select</i>) is the only book you need to spend a lifetime exploring this amazing climbing resource.

Product Details

• Paperback: 422 pages
• Publisher: Falcon; 3rd edition (2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1560448970
• ISBN-13: 978-1560448976
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #341,587 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Need Improvement, February 6, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Classic Rock Climbs No. 28: Red Rocks: Nevada (Paperback)

I've been living and climbing at Red Rocks for two years now. Swain's guide book publicizes a number of new routes that are not in the previous guide; however, not all descriptions are adequate, and a few are even dangerous (such as fixed anchors indicated in the book where there are none in reality). You may also tire of the author's rather feeble attempts at humour! Having said this, I do use the guide alot, and when coupled with the older Urioste guide it serves its purpose. I am saddened however, by Swain's decision to not include a relatively large number of very good routes that were in the old guide-- thereby effectively 'erasing' good routes from the public memory. This amounts to a kind of bizarre censorship, as many of the routes he has left out are quite good and worth preserving. I, and many others, hope for a more enlightened guide book in the future; meanwhile, however, Swain's guide will suffice for most occasional visitors.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The best book BECAUSE it's the only book to choose from, February 29, 2000

By	Ted (Las Vegas, NV (Red Rock)) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Red Rock Select (Falcon Guides Rock Climbing) (Paperback)

The book is very good overall. However the author should have spent a lot more time editing it before printing. The book has numerous contradictions as far as the rating system goes. One climb might be listed as a trad climb only and then in the index that same climb is listed as a sport climb. The index's section on the 5.10a climbs is completely screwed up! About 85% of these climbs are listed as a sport climb but then when you flip to that page they are listed as strictly trad climbs. It's very frustrating sometimes. The book has a lot of very helpful information and as of 1999 it was by far the best available. Hopefully the author will fix all of these problems in the next printing that has been rumored to be release for about 2 years and going.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It's an additional resource; not "the Bible", April 19, 2003

By	"dmitry_chat" (Chita, Russia) - See all my reviews

The book is a decent additional resource to Urioste's "Red Book" (see also her 2003 26 trad routes addendum). Combined w/ the Red Rocks' SuperTopos the three will almost give you one good guidebook's worth of beta.

It IS your Red Rocks' "Bible" if you are a sport climber.