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A Feeling for Rock
$19.95
About the book
How does it feel to rock climb - the touch, ethics, companionship, landscape, and language? A Feeling for Rock explores such topics in a clever mix of poetry, cartoons, photographs, essays, and interviews with both lifelong climbers and total beginners. Fun for dipping into or a more immersive read, it will brighten your climbing experience. A Feeling for Rock won the Climbing Literature Award 2021 at Banff Mountain Book Competition. "I was really surprised by how much I enjoyed this book. It's thoroughly weird, which is GOOD." - Andrew Bisharat “One of the pleasures of reading this book is you rarely know what Dobner is going to come up with next… If…you too have been wondering where the joy of climbing has gone, I recommend you get yourself a copy of A Feeling for Rock.” - Ian Parnell Read the review by Andrew Bisharat over at Evening Sends here, and the one by Ian Parnell at UKClimbing here.
Author
Sarah-Jane Dobner is a devoted climber from Bristol, UK. “Rock climbing has shaped my body, my bookshelves, my home, my holidays, the clothes I wear, the vehicle I drive, how I spend my money and what happens when I die. I am a product of the rock. The dynamic is visceral, spiritual, intellectual and emotional – no area untouched by this curious hobby.” Follow her on Instagram and Facebook @afeelingforrock.
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A Feeling for Rock
2021 Dob Dob Dob UK
by Sarah Jane Dobner
268 B&W pages
9781838400415
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Climbing Psychology
$35.00
About Climbing Psychology
Ever experienced a fear of falling, fear of failure, or any other negative thoughts that distract you from climbing your best? Author Kevin Roet's interest in climbing psychology developed because of direct experience with his own fear of falling. If you would like to push your limits instead of finding a myriad of reasons to say "take", then this book is for you. Rooted in modern psychological concepts like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and current scientific research, the book will help break down your fear response and allow you to shift your focus away from your fear. Kevin runs workshops on climbing psychology and has solicited feedback from students, honing his concepts into a very readable and colorfully illustrated book. For an informative review, as well as an inside look into the table of contents and a few pages from the book, check out this article on UKClimbing.com.
Features
Color photographs and illustrations
Essays and thoughts from experienced and professional climbers
Exercises and practical advice, including QR code links to supplemental material
About the author
Kevin Roet is a mountain guide, and runs a mountain skills and training company in the UK called Rise and Summit. He also is a climbing coach, consultant, and runs workshops. He loves climbing and helping other folks gain the experience and confidence to climb their very best.
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Climbing Psychology
2021 Kevin Roet
208 pages, illustrated in color
978-1527287686
This is a great resource for anyone looking to up their game, and is an excellent companion to Rock Warrior's Way and Espresso Lessons by Arno Ilgner.
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Gunks Climbing
$50.00
About the book
The Shawangunks — “the Gunks” to most of us — is one of the oldest climbing areas in the US, with a storied history dating back to the 1930s. Located 80 miles north of New York City, it has long been a focal point of rock-climbing culture, and remains a traditional climber’s paradise. There is no shortage of very difficult routes that will challenge the best climbers, but the Gunks is even more famous for its incredible easier climbs. You could spend several seasons exploring made-to-climb cracks, faces, overhangs, and dihedrals without ever venturing beyond the 5.7 grade! Multi-pitch outings abound, and the graded carriage road at the base of the cliffs allows easy strolls to even the most distant ends of the cliff.
This full-color, ruthlessly researched guide represents the “next generation” of Gunks guidebooks. It covers over 600 routes at the two main cliffs: the Trapps and Near Trapps. Cliff-base photos get you quickly oriented on the ground, and high-resolution aerial images show key features on routes. Detailed area and route descriptions help you find just the right flavor of climb. You’ll spend less time searching, and more time pulling overhangs, plugging cams, and chasing your own piece of history.
Areas and features
Trapps — Keyhole to Slime Wall (21 sectors)
Near Trapps — right end to Workout Wall (3 sectors)
Aerial cliff photos
Cliff-base photos
Trailhead-locator photos
Helpful sector summaries for choosing where to climb
Action photography from past and present eras
Detailed regional and climbing history
Biographical essays of 10 famed Gunks climbers
Graded list of routes
Looking for more? Gunks Bouldering describes over 600 boulder problems.
Authors
Andy Salo grew up outside Rochester, New York, and began climbing at age 14. He first visited the Gunks soon after, and moved there full time in 2004. Andy’s hard Gunks first ascents are local lore, including Brozone (5.14a), Over the Moon (5.13c), Fire Gild (5.13c R), Corkscrew Roof (V12), Chaotic Stability (V10), and Ideas Are Bulletproof (V10). Having recently relocated to Burlington, VT, he’s super proud of this project and is forever grateful to the Gunks. He is also author of Gunks Bouldering. Christian Fracchia grew up in Glens Falls, New York. A lifelong climber with 36 years of Gunks experience, he spent his formative years climbing rock and ice in the Gunks, Catskills, Adirondacks, and White Mountains before settling in New Paltz in 2000. A high-school physics teacher, Christian has also devoted his summers to climbing around the world, most recently spending his time in the Dolomites of Italy. He is the author and creator of Gunks Apps. His notable Gunks first ascents include The Zoomulator (5.12a), Word of Mouth (5.12b), Indiana Jones (5.12a X), Future Shock Direct (5.12c R/X) in the Trapps, and The Past Recaptured (5.12a), at Millbrook, his favorite Gunks cliff. An architect and designer by education, Eric Ratkowski grew up in Detroit, Michigan, and has climbed in the Gunks for 14 years, guiding professionally for 6 of those. His community contributions include editing for the AAC’s Accidents in North American Climbing and working as a ranger at the Mohonk Preserve. Eric has climbed in eight countries and four continents. He’s climbed and guided at a hundred different areas in the United States, and claims to have “never climbed anything of note.”
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Gunks Climbing
2021 Wolverine Publishing
by Andy Salo, Christian Fracchia, and Eric Ratkowski
468 full-color pages
9781938393389
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Inside the High Sierra
$75.00
About the book
The most beautiful Sierra book ever? Inside the High Sierra is a meticulously produced coffee-table book that will delight anyone who loves the High Sierra, fine-art-outdoor photography, or beautiful books in general. The landscape photography featured here is on par with the very best we have ever seen. Behold the crowning achievement of a climber and photographer who spent most of his life hunting beauty in California’s most iconic mountain range. Hard-bound in linen on the outside, with 55 full-color plates printed on Japanese archival paper on the inside. There is also plenty to read here: in addition to stories and extensive notes on the images by the author, the book features diverse and insightful contributed essays by Joseph Holmes, Michael Cohen, Laurel Fiddler, Peter Croft, Dick Dorworth, and a foreword by Thomas Hornbein. The author's website has a thorough preview of the book, as well as critical acclaim, reviews, and words about Claude and his artistic process. In Claude's words: The work invites viewers to behold visions of wonder from this world, but more to explore what is touched within. We come to sense the majesty of the world doesn’t come only up exhausting mountain trails but waits for us also within our own luminous space of attentive awareness.
Praise
Inside the High Sierra is a luminous glimpse into what Claude Fiddler calls a “…restless uncertainty that I was in an unfamiliar reality.” His photographs are exquisitely crafted, in turns as subtle or as dramatic as they should be. They express an infatuation with the outer and inner landscapes he’s spent a lifetime exploring. So, too, do the essays that accompany this visual banquet. “I could see Half Dome and the beach at Tenaya Lake where I grew up swimming,” writes Fiddler’s daughter, Lauren. “This could be enough, I thought.” Would that we were all able to so directly experience the acute love of place celebrated in this sumptuous book. — Michael Kennedy, Former Publisher and Editor of Climbing Magazine
Loving a place is easy; capturing its essence is something else entirely. In this gorgeous book, Fiddler reveals the wonders of light, highlighting the Sierra’s many textures and moods. His photographs offer a decades-long study in paying attention, one stunning, thoughtfully conceived frame at a time. The essays that accompany the images, from harrowing climbing tales to meditations on the properties of granite, give voice to the transformative and ultimately fragile nature of this landscape.
— Caroline VanHemert, author of The Sun is a Compass
Author
Since the 1970s and before he became a renowned photographer, Claude Fiddler was a prominent figure in the Sierra climbing community, with high-standard first ascents in Yosemite Valley, Tuolumne Meadows and the High Sierra. He has co-authored a climbing guidebook to the range, and worked for many years as a ski patroller and mountain guide. He still lives at the foot of the mountains, with his wife and adventure partner Nancy.
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Inside the High Sierra
2021 Claude Fiddler
By Claude Fiddler
156 pages, 10 x 12 inches
978-1-938393-39-6
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New River Gorge National Park Visitor’s Guide
$20.00
About the book
The New River Gorge National Park and Preserve is the newest destination on the East Coast national park tour. It's also one of the worthiest, with dramatic scenery and so much for visitors to do. Local-born author Amanda Ashley knows the area intimately, and has put together an indispensable guidebook for anyone visiting the New River Gorge National Park. Robert Legg's colorful photography illustrates the beautiful, fun, and informative guide. Looking for a a relaxed day in town, or a thrilling whitewater raft trip? A hike to a beautiful overlook or a driving tour to a historic mining town? This guide has you covered no matter how much time you have or how much adventure you're looking for.
Features
Packed with color photos
17 color maps help you find your way
Info on each of the Visitor Centers
Recommended activities
Cultural history
Natural history
Festival and event information
Local businesses
Lodging and dining recommendations
About the authors
Amanda and Robert are siblings and lifelong residents of the New River Gorge. Adventure gypsies at heart, they’ve explored this area since before they could walk — and once they could, well, they went everywhere in the park. From driving up and down the gorge before the New River Gorge Bridge was built, to the early days of rafting, they’ve seen the area grow and change and blossom. They’ve camped on the river, climbed the cliffs, hiked and biked the trails, run the rapids of the New River, and know how to best experience all of it. Together and separately they’ve gone on adventures around the globe and both appreciate that it’s the intersection of people and place that makes traveling to a new destination so rewarding and fun.
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New River Gorge National Park & Preserve Visitor's Guide
2022 Wolverine Publishing
by Amanda Ashley and Robert Legg
116 full color pages
978-1-938393-433
For a quick list of ideas to do in a few hours at the New River Gorge National Park, check out this article. Looking for more in-depth guidebooks? Hiking and Biking in the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve covers the excellent trails at the New River Gorge. If rock climbing is your thing, check out the two volume set, New River Rock Volume 1 and New River Rock Volume 2 for comprehensive coverage of climbing at the New.
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Penitente: Rock Climbing in the San Luis Valley
$35.00
About the book
Foot for foot, the gem-like rhyolite of the San Luis Valley offers some of the finest climbing in the state. This guide covers all the most popular areas and several never-before-published crags, plus bonus chapters on the local bouldering and mountain biking highlights. This is the only modern book to this popular area, providing the most up-to-date access info, many new climbs, and new areas such as the Promised Land and Pharcyde. This book delivers the info you need, with plenty of sweet action photos to get you motivated.
Features
The area’s only up-to-date climbing guidebook — don’t settle for fuzzy B&W photos and 1990s beta!
Penitente, Rock Garden, Witches’ Canyon, Sidewinder, Rattler, Promised Land, Pharcyde, English Valley, and more
Over 250 routes, 50 of them are 5.9 and under
All-current acces info, including Witches’ Canyon shortcut trails
Helpful maps and accurate driving directions
Bouldering highlights from the Rock Garden, Stone Quarry, Rattler Cliff, and more
Newly established 5.14s — check ‘em out: they’re heinous!
Every book purchase supports the San Luis Valley Climbers Alliance
About the Author
Nate Liles originally hails from British Columbia, Canada, but has been spending time at crags across the American West since he was 15. A skilled photographer and videographer, he shares his vision of the world via the business he and his partner Bekka operate, Orographic Creative.
Since 2020, Nate has been the Development Director for the American Safe Climbing Association (ASCA, safeclimbing.org), working to raise awareness of the most ambitious and effective hardware-replacement program in the country. An expert re-equipper, he teaches clinics on the fine art of climbing-bolt removal and replacement, and has brought these skills to the San Luis Valley, repairing and upgrading many of the classic routes here and helping others to do the same.
Although he will be the last person to mention it, Nate is also a silent crusher on both the cliffs and the boulders, and has worked hard to repeat, evaluate, and standardize grades for the upper-end routes in this guide. When not climbing, shooting others climbing, repairing climbs, or opening new routes, Nate can be found sitting up late at a remote camp capturing time-lapse imagery of the night sky.
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Penitente: Rock Climbing in the San Luis Valley
By Nate Liles
ISBN: 978-1-938393-47-1
204pp, color
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Redwood Burl
$45.00
About the book
Redwood Burl is a compact yet comprehensive guide to the extensive climbing in Northwest California. The college town of Arcata is the center of a universe of incredible but little-known cragging and bouldering. Sea cliffs, sea lions, river-polished boulders, towering redwoods, hidden limestone caves, and enough climbing to keep you busy for a lifetime. It’s a paradise. For years, road-tripping climbers in the know have visited the limestone of the Trinity Arêtes and the overhanging seaside pockets of Promontory, declaring them some of the best sport crags in CA. This book fully documents these gems, and introduces dozens of other excellent cliffs that have hidden under the radar ... until now! There's a lot packed into this guidebook. You'll find maps to keep you oriented, icons depicting sun and rain aspects, hiking approach times, geology and ecology info, gorgeous color photography, and enough beta on bouldering, sport, and trad climbing to keep you busy whether you're just visiting the area or a seasoned local. $1 of each book sale is donated to the Northwest California Climbers Coalition, whose mission is to preserve and expand local climbing opportunities. Please visit their website at nwca-climbers.org, and feel free to pitch in, any way you can!
Areas included
Coastal areas from Arcata to Crescent City, including Moonstone Beach, Sue-meg (formerly Patrick’s Point) State Park, Lost Rocks, Promontory
More Highway 101 fun down south, Santa Rosa to Arcata
80 pages of Highway 299 crags - Land of the Lost, Cold Springs, Trinity Arêtes, and many more
Sweet Highway 36 and Highway 3 crags including the Caverns, Hayfork Haven, Marble Caves
The adventurous Siskiyou County region including Cecilville Bluffs and Lover’s Leap limestone
Many previously undocumented crags, and adventures galore!
About the author
Evan Wisheropp has an almost unreasonable love for climbing and insatiable desire to open new climbs. In his quest to explore everything that Northwest California has to offer, he has climbed over 1300 local routes (over 80% of the routes in this book), as well as cleaned, developed, bolted, or rebolted over 400 routes. This is truly a labor of love — he has invested over $20,000 into the climbing infrastructure described in this guide! Evan isn't always out getting dirty with his power drill. He also works his camera to create beautiful imagery, which brings the guidebook to life. You can see some of his professional work here. He and wife Amanda work and live in Arcata. If you see a guy with a drill, say hey! It might be Evan.
Details
Redwood Burl: A Climber’s Guide to Northwest California
2022 Wolverine Publishing
by Evan Wisheropp
396 full color pages
9781938393464
Need more on Northern California? Check out California Roadtrip!
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Rifle: A Climber’s Guide
$38.00
About the book
Rifle Mountain Park is one of America's best sport-climbing areas, especially for harder grades. The canyon's limestone cliffs have more than 500 established rock climbs, including some of the most difficult in America. Climbers come from all over the world to challenge themselves on the steep, gymnastic routes. But the canyon is much more than just a crucible for the sport's elite. Rifle rock climbing also features plenty of easier fare, suitable for novices and intermediates. Looking for a dense concentration of 5.13 and 5.14 lines? Check. Or is 5.10 your limit? Check — you'll find good routes at that level, too. No matter what grade you climb, you'll appreciate the unique style of movement produced by the blocky limestone, with sidepulls, slopers, laybacks, and kneebars. Combine this spread of great sport climbs with easy access and amazing camping and you have one of the most convenient climbing destinations anywhere. Rifle: A Climber's Guide, now in its 4th edition, celebrates the climbs, climbers, natural beauty, and vibrant scene of Rifle. Learn about the flora and fauna, as well as the cast of characters responsible for the routes. Learn how to kneebar, and how to have fun falling off your project 100 times! And while you're at it, enjoy the great photography from some of the country's best-known shooters. $1 from the sale of each book goes to the Rifle Climbers' Coalition, a volunteer group that maintains Rifle bolts and anchors. When in Rifle, be sure to check out the hot springs in nearby Glenwood Springs. Nothing like a good soak to ease weary muscles on a rest day.
Book features
all new beta photos and new easier-to-use layout
handy color-coded grades for quick reference
wonderfully colorful and quirky descriptions
over 100 new climbs since the last edition
essays from pioneers such as Mike Pont, George Squibb, and young guns like Margo Hayes
About the author
Darek Krol sadly passed away in December 2020, at the age of 57, just days after handing off completed drafts of this guide. A native of Poland, he immigrated to Boulder, CO in 1997. He established over 30 routes in the canyon (and ticked 400 overall), and as the de-facto chief climbing steward of the area became known as "mayor of Rifle." Beyond climbing, Darek was a wonderful human being to be around. He made everyone feel known and important, and Rifle feels a little bit colder without his presence. Darek is survived by his "Noble Wife," Anita, and their daughter, Nina.
Details
Rifle: A Climber's Guide (4th edition)
2021 Wolverine Publishing
by Darek Krol
304 full-color pages
9781938393419
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Sierra Trail Runs: A Guide to the Eastside
$38.00
About Sierra Trail Runs
From introductory tours on gentle trails to full-on backcountry adventures up on the highest peaks, this photo guidebook has runs for everyone. Whether you're looking to go bigger and higher, or just discover a new part of the mountains, there are options here to keep you running year round. This guide contains full details on 36 carefully chosen trail runs, some of the best anywhere, including excursions into the White Mountains and Death Valley. With big, beautiful images for inspiration, you'll find all of the info you need for years of adventure in California's High Sierra.
Big, ambitious runs plus a few mellow ones
Run some 14'ers!
Elevation profiles and difficulty ratings
Access to online GPX tracks (password protected)
The Sierra is laced with trails -- this books hones in on the best
Bonus: select runs in the White Mountains and Death Valley
Inspiring images by some of the best trail-running photographers in the business
Original art by Bishop local Ann Piersall Logan
Guest essays by Paiute educator Kris Hohag and other local voices
Every book purchase supports Friends of the Inyo!
About the authors
Dan Patitucci is a professional mountain-sport photographer and athlete with more than 30 years experience running and climbing in the Sierra. Dan’s photography work has taken him running and climbing in mountain ranges all over the world, from the Himalaya to Iceland to Patagonia, and all throughout Europe. He still calls the Sierra “home.” Originally from Switzerland, Janine Patitucci is a professional mountain-sport photographer and digital-imaging specialist at PatitucciPhoto. As a lover of maps and geography, Janine masterminded many of the runs in this guidebook, as well as the runs in the team’s Swiss Alps guidebook, Run the Alps Switzerland, and the Alps’ Via Valais multi-day trail-running tour. From climbing 8000-meter peaks and Patagonian spires to working as a rock and alpine guide in the Sierra, Hjördis Rickert has a broad, lifelong mountain background. A Bishop local, she’s traveled and photographed in mountain ranges all over the world, and has recently discovered the freedom of running through her home range. Kim Strom is a mountain runner and cancer survivor. Since 2016, she has worked with PatitucciPhoto as a writer, photographer, and athlete. She co-founded both Elevation: The Alps Trail & Peak Running Resource and the Via Valais, and co-authored the Run the Alps Switzerland guidebook. Her feature stories have appeared in Patagonia’s The Cleanest Line, Runner’s World, and Trail Runner, as well as numerous outdoor blogs and other publications.
More!
The author team website offers much more, including a sign-up for emailed updates, GPX tracks, a sample gallery of their beautiful photography, recommendations and FAQ's, plus more.
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Sierra Trail Runs: A Guide to the Eastside
2022 Wolverine Publishing
By Dan Patitucci, Janine Patitucci, Hjördis Rickert, and Kim Strom
ISBN: 978-1-938393-45-7
304 pages in full color
More on California's Sierra Nevada!
Road Biking California's Sierra Nevada offers some great touring ideas.
For a host of excellent ski tours and mountain action photography, look to Nate Greenberg and Dan Mingori's Backcountry Skiing California's Eastern Sierra 3rd Edition.
For a gorgeous photo and essay tour: Inside the High Sierra by Claude Fiddler.
Peter Croft's favorite rock climbs in the High Sierra are found in The Good, the Great, and the Awesome.
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The Pass: A Climber’s Guide to Independence Pass and Monitor Rock
$39.00
About The Pass
The Pass - Independence Pass - offers the finest high-country cragging in the Colorado Rockies. Even though climbing has been documented here since the 1950s, this is the area’s first full-color guidebook. The highly featured granitic rock of the Pass offers almost 1000 routes, from bolted 5.4 slabs, to 5.14 roof cracks, to hundreds of fun-in-the-sun mid-grade climbs. Technical and vertical, overhanging and pumpy, sport, splitter cracks, multi-pitch — all styles are there for you, set in a beautiful subalpine forest below snow-covered peaks.
The main concentration of climbing is near the popular Grottos area 10 miles east of Aspen, but all the nearby climbing is documented, too. The newly opened Gold Butte area just outside of town offers a fun cold-weather option on unique sandstone. On the other side of the Pass, Monitor Rock and the Twin Lakes crags get the full treatment, with lots of never-before-published climbs, including the new long, bolted, multi-pitch journeys that are getting rave reviews. When you’re not climbing there’s great camping and swimming, and mountains to climb. For a more urban experience, you can hit the glitzy bars or tour the art galleries of the legendary town of Aspen right down the road.
Included
Up-to-date info on all the popular areas, with over 80 crags and nearly 1000 routes
Many never-before-published routes and crags
Gold Butte sandstone (winter rock climbing in Aspen?!)
Monitor Rock - MANY new routes, and now you can actually find them!
Full-color beta photos (of course), plus inspiring action photography
Essays by Lou Dawson, Henry Barber, Molly Bruce, Josh Wharton, Mark Anderson, and more
Climbing history - meet the star-studded cast that has touched rock here!
Camping beta, weather tips, and rest-day options to help you get the most out of your visit
About the Authors
Jason Brown is a Detroit native and longtime Roaring Fork Valley resident who has spent countless days climbing and new-routing on the Pass. His experience on the testpieces of all styles shines through in the route descriptions.
Mike Schneiter, another Midwest native and longtime Roaring Fork Valley resident, has also tested himself on the steep Pass granite and established new climbs in the area. As founder of Glenwood Climbing Guides he also has guided extensively in the area, logging valuable hours on all the area’s moderate multi-pitch climbs. You’ll appreciate the firsthand descriptions and updated descent beta.
Both authors have young kids, so if you’re visiting the Pass with family, they can relate!
Details
2023 Wolverine Publishing
By Jason Brown and Mike Schneiter
320 full color pages
9781938393488
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Whitewater of the Southern Appalachians Bundle
$82.00
Whitewater of the Southern Appalachians 2 Volume Bundle
Immerse yourself in the South’s best whitewater resource -- buy both and save over 10%! Included are all new second editions, with fresh action photography, put-in and take-out info, and never-before-published runs. Whitewater of the Southern Appalachians Volume 1: 2nd Edition Whitewater of the Southern Appalachians Volume 2: 2nd Edition Put these two stunning new books on your coffee table and you might never get out the door — except that you won’t be able to resist all the awesome new whitewater!
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Whitewater of the Southern Appalachians Vol 1 and 2
2nd editions
by Kirk Eddlemon, 2022
Vol 1 "The Plateau" has 332 color pages and retails for $43
Vol 2 "The Mountains" has 460 color pages and retails for $48
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Whitewater of the Southern Appalachians Vol 1
$43.00
About the book
Whitewater of the Southern Appalachians Vol 1 - The Plateau All new 2nd edition! Etching the great, rocky plateaus of the Southern Appalachians is a rich bounty of streams. These not only bring life to the surrounding terrain, but serve as a dynamic conduit for gaining a deep appreciation of the Southeast's canyon country. This comprehensive guide to more than 150 Southeastern whitewater streams is an inspiring invitation to explore a lifetime of river experiences that await you in the South's lush, hidden canyons. Stepping far beyond the scope of the average guidebook, Whitewater of the Southern Appalachians consists of not only valuable, accurate information, but is also packed with inspiring photography, in-depth coverage of the geology of the plateau, advanced methods for chasing rain, classic river stories from local paddling legends, and much more. If you're looking for the ultimate resource for whitewater paddling on the Plateau, look no further. For paddling destinations in the Mountain region, look to the Whitewater of the Southern Appalachian Vol 2 - The Mountains. Save money with the Whitewater of the Southern Appalachians 2-Volume Bundle!
About the author
Kirk Eddlemon (excerpted from his website): I'm a native East-Tennessean who calls Knoxville home, where I live with my beautiful and unconditionally supportive wife Laura, and amazing son Alexander. I spend almost as much of my time walking, paddling, and even sometimes crawling through the wilder parts of the Southern Appalachians as I do in town. I've always been intrigued by the call of the wild, and even before I started kayaking, I spent much of my time picking out interesting places on topographic maps, and then putting a face to a name by seeking them out on foot with a compass and a little tenacity. This drive flourishes in a freedom-based pursuit like paddling, and it was only a matter of time before I realized that a little plastic boat could facilitate one of the most expressive, grounding, and spiritually rewarding ways of connecting with nature! Kirk is a registered whitewater guide and runs Ace Kayaking School in Knoxville, TN - visit him when you're in the region!
Details
Whitewater of the Southern Appalachians Vol 1: The Plateau
2nd edition
2022 Wolverine Publishing
by Kirk Eddlemon
332 full-color pages
978-1-938393-42-6