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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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First guidebook author to donate all his royalties to the access fund? Karl Kelley..
I don't really know if he was the first, but it is worth noting, and it would be interesting if anyone else has done something like this!
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Rick A
climber
Boulder, Colorado
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Edward Whymper's 1896 guidebook to Chamonix and the range of Mt Blanc is fascinating and contains histories of the climbs, and excellent topos.
There is very little new under the sun!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Cmac's Yosemite wall guide and more recently Geir Hundal's guide to the Cochise Stronghold is being compiled and produced on a 100% direct experience basis.
Great way to combine work and play to produce a first rate guidebook series.
The Stronghold is such a heads up area that solid and accurate information is more than a luxury as many folks have discovered the hard way following older information.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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And I still have it in my collection!
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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A few more...
Early Yosemite guide:
First Teton guide?
Title page:
A few for the folks to the north:
Fun!
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Roots
Mountain climber
Tustin, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - May 8, 2015 - 04:33pm PT
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First electronic (digital) guide book? I think it would referred to as an E-book?
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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A first?
Couple more oldies...
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Holly Crap, Brian! Great collection.
When Batrock finds this thread you guys and duel it out.
I think we need a Supertopo Guide to Guidebooks.
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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Trudy Healy's Adirondacks...first climbing guidebook in the US authored by a woman? I can't come up with an earlier one (or many...!).
Couple of guidebooks (not journals) that featured route topos which predate the Nichols Yosemite guide:
Edit to add...there's a 'taco member who's associated with the topo's from both books...any guesses?
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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^^^Bingo!
Topos in guidebooks, therefore, must be his fault? Ha ha.
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Banquo
climber
Amerricka
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Brian - the climber with everything!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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May 10, 2015 - 02:03pm PT
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I just picked up a pair of later Thorington guides to the Rockies and interior ranges this morning for a great price on ebay. Later editions are perfect for the research work that I have them around for.
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karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
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May 11, 2015 - 10:20pm PT
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Not sure if any of these are firsts but the Rock Jock’s Guide to Queen Creek Canyon AZ guidebook is loaded with unique stuff.
Published 1996 Marty Karabin. 388 pages.
The biggest problem with guidebooks is trying to figure out where you are within the climbing area. I came up with a solution of putting the area map page number on the top of each page in the gutter of the book. So open the book to any page and the page you are on refers you to the area map of the area you are in. John Sherman the following year did the same area map reference key in his newer Hueco Tanks guidebook, but he placed them in random places on the pages leaving the reader searching for the area map reference key.
The nine photos opening each chapter is taken with black and white infra red film. I couldn’t decide how to open up each chapter and one day at the old Climbmax Climbing Center Ed Pabst, photography junkie, said he had the solution for me and took the photos, developed them the old school way, and it was a great learning experience for me.
Throughout the guidebook is signatures from famous rock climbers. I created a contest that if anybody could name every signature you would get a free guidebook. Steve Schneider to this day is the only person to name every signature in the guidebook.
As a kid I always loved the flip book animation cartoons, so I had to create one for the guidebook. Luckily for me I had the Euro Dog character to work with. The animation is 20 frames and starts with dog kissing his bicep muscle, then walks closer while rolling his eyes, and spit rolls down his tongue. This animation took me a solid month to get it moving correctly.
Throughout the book is 40 or so illustrated area maps showing where the trails are, and how to get to the routes, etc. As I was drawing the 50,000 c-shaped curls to create drawn bushes, I noticed that it looked like there were words in the bushes. So I then intentionally drew in words in the bushes on every drawn map throughout the book.
Not sure who gets credit for the first guidebook with manufacture ads, or first with a tick list.
At the time I was into creating climbing cartoons so I gave myself a challenge. I was to create four full page cartoons dealing with the four elements. So one cartoon was Fire, Air, Water and Earth. Earth is the cartoon shown below. I know I am not the first the have cartoons in a guidebook
It was 104 degrees when we took the photo for the guidebook back cover. I was looking to hire anybody with a long mohawk for the photo, but my friend Bill Burns wanted the photo fame, So for one year he grew out his hair and the night before the photo, his wife cut and formed it into this perfect mohawk. We hiked him out to the edge of the Apache Leap while carrying a umbrella to keep the sun off his head. The photo was taken upside down while laying on the tip of a 12 foot extension ladder rigged perpendicular to the top of the rock wall, rigged a few days prior to the photo.
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looking sketchy there...
Social climber
Lassitude 33
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May 12, 2015 - 11:18am PT
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Marty, that guide is amazing, a real work of art and passion.
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Roots
Mountain climber
Tustin, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 3, 2015 - 04:50pm PT
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Is this the first guidebook to feature a female on the cover?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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What a provincial lot!
I'd post the frontispiece but nobody wants to see my buttshot.
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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Is this the first guidebook to feature a female on the cover?
Front or back? Ha ha...(see if anyone can guess the guidebook):
Maybe...?
Too funny...
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