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looking sketchy there...
Social climber
Lassitude 33
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A few Obscure and Rare Items.
BTW: Somewhere I have a Mint copy of Ray Jacqout's Snowy Range Guide.
Here you go Bob:
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Tan Slacks
climber
Joshua Tree
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Certainly not my oldest but I have not seen another copy. I imagine Randy has one.
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looking sketchy there...
Social climber
Lassitude 33
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TS, I do have a copy. It is simply a wonderful, high quality production. Not rare, but a Classic.
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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I have that one too Dan.
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Mad Max
Trad climber
Bakersfield
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 6, 2015 - 10:46pm PT
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This thread is really taking off, I'm glad I could give everyone something to enjoy :)
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Uh oh, so much for this thread.....
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bhilden
Trad climber
Mountain View, CA/Boulder, CO
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T Hocking,
I don't believe the guide you are showing is actually Gene Drake's original 1970 guide. I have the guide in your photo and it appears to be a supplement that was prepared by Bill Todd in the mid 70's before the publication of the first 'book' guide to the Tahoe area by Greg Dexter, Rick Sumner, John Taylor and Bill Todd in 1976. Here's a photo:
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hamie
Social climber
Thekoots
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This Squamish guide, written by Tricouni, may not be rare, but there aren't many still around. What is rare tho' is the size. It's 5.5" by 9". Glenn, what were you thinking???? As you can see, mine has a fold in the middle, so I could stuff it into a pocket.
This next guide is not that rare either, but it is significant. Written in 1980, it was/is the first ice climbing guidebook in the world.
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bhilden
Trad climber
Mountain View, CA/Boulder, CO
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Here is a guidebook(#21 in a series of ???) which contains Gene Drake's guide to Lover's Leap and his guide to Sugarloaf. It also contains John Harwood's guide to Consumnes River.
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Written in 1980, it was/is the first ice climbing guidebook in the world. Actually there was an earlier ice climbing guidebook:
"Shades of Blue: A Guide to Ice Climbing in New England",
by Peter Cole and Rick Wilcox, 1976.
One of its interesting features was that it included some climbs which had not been done yet (labelled as unclimbed). Some of these were named.
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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^^^Yep...1976:
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Jerry Dodrill
climber
Sebastopol
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Here are a couple obscurities from my shelf.
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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Local classic:
A few other random guidebooks:
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looking sketchy there...
Social climber
Lassitude 33
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Jerry, those Hiskes guides are great. Especially like the Clark Canyon guide, which I have not seen before.
Brian, the Buddy Price guide is an all-time favorite.
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bhilden
Trad climber
Mountain View, CA/Boulder, CO
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Here are a few more of my favorites that might be hard to find.
I used to have the 1976 version of this guide, but I can't find it!
Check out this page in the guidebook. Unique!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Here is what CosmicCragassMan was sayin' way back on p 1 that was really rare. There be few, really, it seems.
This pic was posted a couple pages back, too.
I owned one of the paper back orange JT Desert Rats' guidebooks when Jeff Mathis and Millis and myself went down there in the week of Christmas, 1970.
I've not seen it in like twenty years, so I suppose I sold it in a major yard sale back in the nineties when I (stupidly) let go a fine collection of climbing books...grin and bear it, eh?
The Dessert Rats' guidebook featured line drawings, not quite like the Kernville Rock guidebook's, but perhaps more crudely drawn? I wonder who their artist was, as well.
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Rolfr
Trad climber
La Quinta and Penticton BC
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Would anyone have a copy of Kevin Mclean's pocket guide to the Squamish Chief where he tried to unsuccessfully introduce the S rating, a version of YDS and the two-part British grade, a combination of the adjectival and technical grades.
Rare for his attempt to introduce a new grading system.
Please post if you have a copy.
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dee ee
Mountain climber
Of THIS World (Planet Earth)
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Wow you guys all those entries are pretty impressive.
I have to say though, BVB's impassioned presentation of the Woodson guide is the most moving of all.
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