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Rockin' Gal
Trad climber
Boulder
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Dec 18, 2010 - 07:32pm PT
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The only guide I have that I didn't see listed here is the Climbers' and Fishermen's Guide to Gibraltar Rock, Wisconsin. By Roger Wiegand and Jay Stewart. Second and final edition February, 1972. Edited and Retyped 1984, Michael Wilsonn, Chicago, IL.
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Climbing Bump
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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A Climber's Guide to the Squamish Chief, 1962, by Jim Baldwin. The original handwritten version. There may only be one copy in the world.
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giegs
climber
Tardistan
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Jul 28, 2011 - 06:13pm PT
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Not rare by this crowds standards, but I found it for a song in Bookmans earlier today. Looks as though it's never been outside.
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Butoou
Sport climber
Malibu
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Jul 28, 2011 - 11:22pm PT
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Does anybody have the first guide book to the Santa Monica Mountains? Dave Katz "Getting High in LA"
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sibylle
Trad climber
On the road again!
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Jul 29, 2011 - 01:41am PT
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I have various older guidebooks, including duplicates of a number if them since I inherited my father's extensive library. I'd post photos but can't get the "photo" button to work today - I use a Mac, and have tried both Safari and Firefox. any suggestions about how to get photos to post?
I have:
Starr's Guide to the John Muir trail and High Sierra Region
Hervey Voge, Climber's guide to the High Sierra, 1965
Kamps -- Needles , 1971
Ament, Eldorado, 1978
Dexter et al. , Lake Tahoe, 1976
Ortenburger, Tetons, 1965
Wheelock, Whitney, 1960
toula, Cheap Way to Fly
Warren Harding - SIGNED - Downward Bound
plus many more
some of Europe that were my Dad's
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Jul 29, 2011 - 01:45am PT
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Sybelle, neat to have a downward bound signed copy.
Butoou, I think I still have my copy. Never really used it, so I may have traded it to a friend living down there.
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Nov 23, 2011 - 09:35pm PT
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Nov 24, 2011 - 02:11am PT
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Not sure just how rare but not super common.
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Dec 17, 2011 - 11:53pm PT
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Feb 13, 2016 - 09:21am PT
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I was cleaning out a bookcase today and found the first proof from the that Troy made of Sport Crags of Southern California. As well as the old Tahquitz Suicide guide.
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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Feb 13, 2016 - 09:41am PT
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Also found my notebook that I used to keep track of new climbs we did at Williamson. At the time I called it Eagles Roost because that is what my dad called when he climbed there in the 60's. I also added ice routes I had done up to that point.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Outside the Asylum
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Reilly: I still say my Guide to the Dome of the Rock from the previous page is the rarest guide posted yet.
And if you actually try the climb, a guaranteed stoning will ensue.
Anyone have the guidebook for the pyramids in Egypt?
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Jkruse
Trad climber
Las Cruces, NM
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Came across a first edition of Bjornstad's "Desert Rock" at a local used book store mistakenly placed in the geology section. Paid $10 for it, needless to say I was very excited.
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SilverSnurfer
Mountain climber
SLC, UT.
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copyright 1989 "El Cheepo Guide books"
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sDawg
climber
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Wow. I have the 8th edition of Owens River Gorge Climbs, an early edition of Bay Area Rock by Jim Thornburg, and a Don Reid guide to Yosemite Bouldering that all have flimsy paper covers and 2-staple spines. Must be super old, right? I opened them to find the publication dates were 1999, 1992, and 1998, respectively! Guidebooks have come a long way in the last 20 years and when we complain about how crowded the crags are, remember all we have to do is find a place where the guidebook still looks like one of these and it will undoubtedly be empty.
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