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Grand Teton National Park Climbing and Mountaineering
Grand Teton National Park is America's premier area for alpine rock climbing, mountaineering, and ice and snow climbing. Climbers come to test themselves on soaring rocky ridges, steep icy couloirs, and steep rock faces. While the Tetons offers thousands of climbing routes, most climbers come to ascend the Grand Teton, its highest peak and one of America's most beautiful mountains.
Grand Teton National Park: Climbing Trip Planning Information
Grand Teton National Park with its majestic Teton Range is one of America's premier alpine climbing areas. Plan your next climbing trip to the Tetons with lots of useful trip planning information, including camping, finding a guide, climbing guidebooks, climbing restrictions and permits, and the best climbing seasons.
Review of GoLite Cady 2477 Jacket
Guide Review of the GoLite Cady 2477 Jacket, a warm, lightweight, and affordable insulated jacket with recycled synthetic fill. It offers great features at a low price and wears well at the crag and around town.
Carderock Rock Climbing: Climbing Near Washington DC
Carderock, a small cliff band along the east bank of the Potomac River in Maryland, is a popular rock climbing area northwest of Washington DC. Find out all about Carderock, its metamorphic rock, climbing history, essential climbing equipment, the best seasons, and how to find Carderock.
Joshua Tree National Park Rock Climbing
Joshua Tree National Park in southern California is simply one of the best climbing areas in the United States. J-Tree offers over 8,000 climbing routes and boulder problems, including bolted sport routes and steep jam cracks on granite cliffs, outcrops, pinnacles, and rock piles in the high desert east of Los Angeles.
Best Climbs Joshua Tree National Park: Book Review
Read a guide book review of "Best Climbs Joshua Tree National Park" by Bob Gaines, a select rock climbing guide to over 250 of the best routes at Joshua Tree published by FalconGuides. This excellent climbing guide leads you to lots of great crack climbs and bolted sport routes on J-Tree's granite outcrops, domes, and cliffs.
Backpacker Books from FalconGuides
Review of a book series on outdoor skills for backpackers, hikers, and climbers, published by FalconGuides and Backpacker Magazine, that are great pocket-sized books full of useful, practical, and portable information about a wide variety of outdoor topics, including using GPS, travel in bear country, outdoor survival, outdoor hazards, predicting weather, essential knots, camp cooking, and navigation.
Acadia National Park Rock Climbing
Acadia National Park on the central Maine coast is one of the best rock climbing areas in the eastern United States. Acadia also offers Otter Cliff, the best sea cliff climbing area in the country. Climbers come to Acadia to toprope at Otter Cliff and South Bubble, and to climb excellent multi-pitch routes on The Precipice. Start planning your next climbing trip to Acadia National Park.
Basic Rockcraft by Royal Robbins
Basic Rockcraft by Royal Robbins, originally published in 1971, was once the best how-to-rock-climb book available. While some sections of the book are now dramatically out-dated, this classic book by an American master climber, offers lots of insights into the development of the Yosemite-style of climbing as well as Robbins' thoughts on climbing ethics and style.
Austin Rock Climbing
Austin, the capital city of Texas, offers lots of rock climbing venues for the urban climber, including limestone routes at Barton Creek Greenbelt, lots of bouldering, and great granite climbing at Enchanted Rock State Natural Area.
Zion National Park Rock Climbing
Zion National Park in southwest Utah is one of America's greatest sandstone climbing area. Climbers come to ascend big walls and to jam shorter crack climbs in Zion Canyon, a deep canyon carved by the Virgin River and lined with soaring cliffs up to 2,500 feet high.
Whitehorse Ledge Climbing
Whitehorse Ledge west of North Conway, New Hampshire is one of New England's best climbing areas as well as one of the best traditional climbing areas in the United States. Learn more about Whitehorse Ledge and its wonderful climbing routes, then make plans to go climbing in New Hampshire.
BlueWater Titan Loop Chain
The BlueWater Titan Loop Chain is one of the best, lightest, and strongest personal anchor tethers available for rock climbers to clip themselves into anchors. Read this review for the BlueWater Titan Loop Chain, an important piece of guide-recommended climbing equipment.
Maple Canyon Climbing
Maple Canyon in central Utah is one of America's best sport climbing areas with hundreds of bolted routes on vertical conglomerate cliff.
Spiky Plus Ice Cleats
A review of Spiky Plus ice cleats, which are attached to hiking and climbing boots for hiking and climbing on snow and ice slopes and trails.
Hueco Tanks — America's Best Winter Climbing and Bouldering Area
Hueco Tanks State Historical Park in west Texas offers some of America’s finest bouldering and climbing on its towering walls and boulders. The 860-acre park, with a warm dry climate, is one of America’s premier winter climbing areas.
Review of Trango B52 Belay and Rappel Device
A complete Guide Review of a Trango B52 belay and rappel device used for rock, ice, and sport climbing.
Dark Summit — The True Story of Everest’s Most Controversial Season
Book review of The Summit — The True Story of Everest’s Most Controversial Season by Nick Heil about Mount Everest and the 2006 disaster