Smith Rock Select: A Color Guidebook to the Best Rock Climbs at Smith Rock, Oregon - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0979264499 ISBN 13: 9780979264498

Synopsis

This is a selective guidebook describing around 300 of the best rock routes at Smith Rock State Park, which is situated between the towns of Bend and Madras in central Oregon. The soaring volcanic tuff and basalt orange walls of this fantastic Oregon State Park have some of the best and most celebrated climbs in the America, offering both sport and traditional climbing across a wide range of grades. In fact Smith Rock was the birthplace of sport climbing in America, with a host of cutting-edge routes. Areas covered; Aggro Gully, Cocaine Gully, Morning Glory Wall, The Peanut, The Dihedrals, Christian Brothers, Phoenix Buttress Mesa Verde Buttress, Monkey Face, The Northern Point, and The Lower Gorge. The start of the guidebook gives a good introduction to Smith Rocks Sate Park, including all local amenities information such as where to stay, what time of the year to climb, and the rules of the Park. All routes are shown on clear colour photo-topos along with detailed route descriptions. As there is often a mixture of traditional and sport climbing on the same buttress, red lines are used to indicate traditional routes and blue lines for sport routes. Published by Wolverine Publishing in June 2007, this guidebook is in English text and full colour throughout with loads of great action photographs. Number of pages is 88. Size is 150mm x 230mm.

Edition details

• Publication date: 1709
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0979264499
• ISBN 13: 9780979264498
• Binding: Perfect Paperback