Rifle Mountain Park and Western Colorado Rock Climbs

Rifle Mountain Park and Western Colorado Rock Climbs

Author: Dave Pegg

Publisher: Wolverine Publishing

Published: 2008-06

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780979264436

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Rifle Mountain Park and Wester Colorado Rock Climbs is a full color, photo-topo style guidebook to over 20 different climbing areas in Western Colorado, most of which have never before been described in print. Not only does it include the most up-to-date climbing information for over 900 routes, it is also packed full of stunning action photographs by some of the most recognized climbing photographers in the business - Keith Ladzinski, Celin Serbo, and Tim Kemple. The book includes many interactive features like Tick lists of recommended routes, and was written as a compilation amongst local climbers with the most intimate knowledge of the local cliffs. Rifle Mountain Park and Western Colorado Rock Climbs replaces an older, out-of-date guidebook called Western Sloper, and may be one of the best guidebooks you'll ever see.


Western Sloper

Western Sloper

Author: Dave Pegg

Publisher:

Published: 2002-08-01

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 9780972160902

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A rock climbing guidebook to western Colorado, including Rifle Mountain Park, the Fortress of Solitude, Puoux, No Name, and Redstone Bouldering.


Boulder Canyon

Boulder Canyon

Author: Jason Haas

Publisher:

Published: 2019-06

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9780578453064

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A comprehensive rock climbing guide to 2,500 climbs in Boulder Canyon outside Boulder, CO


Rock Climbing Colorado

Rock Climbing Colorado

Author: Stewart M. Green

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2010-06-01

Total Pages: 608

ISBN-13: 0762763442

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This book is the only guide available that covers all the major climbing areas in the state with routes ranging from 5.0 to 5.14.


Fifty Places to Rock Climb Before You Die

Fifty Places to Rock Climb Before You Die

Author: Chris Santella

Publisher: ABRAMS

Published: 2020-04-21

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 1683358899

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A guide to some of the greatest locations around the world as recommended by expert rock climbers, with travel tips and stunning photos included. Covering three types of climbing—trad, sport, and bouldering—and showcasing breathtaking venues from Joshua Tree to Jeju, South Korea, this guide features insights from industry insiders, including employees from rock-climbing gear companies like Petzl and Black Diamond Equipment, professional climbers like Jon Cardwell and Kevin Jorgeson (co-star of Dawn Wall), filmmaker Michael Call, and Climbing magazine editor Matt Samet. And for those who want to travel to these locales, Chris Santella provides “If You Go” suggestions to help plan your trip. This essential travel companion for climbers of all levels of expertise features such locations as: Horse Pens 40, Alabama * Cochise Stronghold, Arizona * Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Colorado * Innsbruck, Austria * Castle Hill, New Zealand * Elephant’s Perch, Idaho * The Bugaboos, British Columbia * Arco, Italy * Red River Gorge, Kentucky * Devil’s Lake, Wisconsin * Acadia National Park, Maine * The Shawangunks, New York * Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma * Chamonix, France * Railay Beach, Thailand * and more


Upward Bound

Upward Bound

Author: Michael Useem

Publisher: Crown Currency

Published: 2003-11-04

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1400051967

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Your team has faltered at a critical moment. A key member says he can’t continue, requiring you to make a snap decision: Do you write him off? Or do you risk the whole venture by trying to get him back on his feet? It could be a scenario straight from the business world. Yet this one occurred high on the slopes of the world’s deadliest mountain, K2, where lives, not just livelihoods, depended on the leader’s choice. Decisions don’t get much starker. That’s why mountains—though seemingly a world apart from business—hold unique and surprising insights for managers and entrepreneurs at any altitude. More than just symbols of our upward strivings, they are high-altitude management laboratories: testing grounds where risk, fear, opportunity, and ambition collide in the most unforgiving of settings. Upward Bound brings together a remarkable team of nine writers equally at home among the high peaks and in the corridors of corporate power, including Good to Great author Jim Collins, legendary climber and outdoor clothing entrepreneur Royal Robbins, and Stacy Allison, the first American woman to summit Mount Everest. Their riveting, often harrowing accounts, reveal • Why rock climbers’ distinction between failure (giving up before reaching the edge of your abilities) and what they call “fallure” (committing 100 percent and using up all your energy and reserves) can help companies transcend their vertical limits • What happens when a leader abdicates responsibility in the Death Zone of Mount Everest—and how a similar vacuum at sea level can corrupt corporate purpose • How large climbing expeditions use exquisite organization and “pyramids of people” to place just two climbers on top, making heroes of some from the sacrifice of all • What “ridge-walking” between deadly avalanches and the lure of Mount McKinley’s summit taught a venture capitalist about nurturing risky high-tech start-ups • How a simple insight—using “proximate goals”—propelled a faltering climber up El Capitan in a seemingly undoable solo ascent, a ten-day lesson that would later jump-start a business • Why more accessible peaks like Mount Sinai can exert a pull every bit as powerful as Mount Everest • How to think like a guide While most people will never find themselves in the thin air of the world’s highest places, Upward Bound brings those places down to earth for anyone seeking the path to his or her own summit. Whether it’s up the career ladder or toward a creative peak, Upward Bound addresses the fundamental question of why we climb, while capturing the power of mountains to instruct as well as inspire.


New Mexico Bouldering

New Mexico Bouldering

Author: Owen Summerscales

Publisher:

Published: 2016-03-10

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780692614006

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The Land of Enchantment is known for its scenic natural beauty and plentiful rock climbing, with its rich geology and excellent climate. This book is the first guide to bouldering in the state and compiles over 1000 problems in central and northern NM, with 40 maps and 240 topographic photos. Areas covered include: Socorro Box Canyon, Albuquerque Sandia Mountains, Ponderosa, the Ortegas and Roy.


Death Grip

Death Grip

Author: Matt Samet

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2013-02-12

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1250022363

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Death Grip chronicles a top climber's near-fatal struggle with anxiety and depression, and his nightmarish journey through the dangerous world of prescription drugs. Matt Samet lived to climb, and craved the challenge, risk, and exhilaration of conquering sheer rock faces around the United States and internationally. But Samet's depression, compounded by the extreme diet and fitness practices of climbers, led him to seek professional help. He entered the murky, inescapable world of psychiatric medicine, where he developed a dangerous addiction to prescribed medications—primarily "benzos," or benzodiazepines—that landed him in institutions and nearly killed him. With dramatic storytelling, persuasive research data, and searing honesty, Matt Samet reveals the hidden epidemic of benzo addiction, which some have suggested can be harder to quit than heroin. Millions of adults and teenagers are prescribed these drugs, but few understand how addictive they are—and how dangerous long-term usage can be, even when prescribed by doctors. After a difficult struggle with addiction, Samet slowly makes his way to a life in recovery through perseverance and a deep love of rock climbing. Conveying both the exhilaration of climbing in the wilderness and the utter madness of addiction, Death Grip is a powerful and revelatory memoir.