A large and comprehensive guidebook to 28 important climbing areas throughout Utah, including Zion National Park.
Utah is a magnificent landscape of startling diversity and beauty, manifested for climbers in more cliff miles of exposed rock than any other state. Fragile sandstone towers pierce the sky amid endless miles of vertical cliffs sometimes more than a half mile high; wondrous canyon walls of cobblestone and limestone overhang at dizzying angles; and granite domes and slabs recline on sunny mountain slopes.
Rock Climbing Utah is the only guide available that covers all the major climbing areas in the state. Traditional and sport climbers from the beginner to expert will find a superb sampling of hundreds of routes in the 25 areas covered--including 300 new routes that were not in the first edition. This fully revised and expanded guidebook offers first-hand information for climbers, including area overviews and climbing histories, route betas and topos, color maps and photos, equipment recommendations, approach and descent information, and listings for shops, gyms, and guide services. Stunning action photos round out the package to make Rock Climbing Utah an essential source for visitng and local climbers alike.
Covers:
Moab Area: Arches National Park, Potash Road, Long Canyon, Island in the Sky, Kane Springs Canyon, US 191 North, Tusher Canyon, The Needles and Lost World Butte, Sunshine Wall, River Road Crags, Castle Valley, Fisher Towers, US 191 South.
Southeast Utah: Indian Creek Canyon, Bridger Jack Spires and Sixshooter Peaks, Mexican Hat.
Central Utah: San Rafael Swell, Capitol Reef National Park, Spring Canyon Crag, Maple Canyon.
Southwest Utah: Zion National Park, St. George Area Crags.
Northern Utah: Big Cottonwood Canyon, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Middle Bell tower, American Fork Canyon, Uinta Mountains, Logan Canyon.
Written descriptions, good maps, lots of colour photodiagrams, some monochrome photo diagrams and a sprinkling of action shots.
By Stewart Green.
Card cover, 23cm x 15cm, 575 pages - a monster!
Second edition 2012.
ISBN: 978-0-7627-4451-0.