Southern California Rock Climbing
Author: Tom Slater
Publisher: Tom Slater
Publication year: 2013
Edition: 1st
No. pages: 360 color
About the book
Southern California Rock Climbing is volume 2 of the California Road Trip series by Maximus Press. This select guidebook covers Joshua Tree, Tahquitz and Suicide, Riverside Quarry, New Jack City, Mount Woodson, Malibu Creek, Stoney Point, Gibraltar Rocks — you name it — taking you to over 60 climbing areas from the middle of the Golden State to the Mexican border.
Intended as a complement to California Road Trip: A Climber’s Guide to Northern California, these two tomes will provide info on a whopping 3000 routes over 160 areas in the Golden State. This volume alone will provide a lifetime of climbing: from alpine to oceanside, from desert to urban, the diversity of Southern California rock climbing will impress even the best-traveled veteran.
About the author
Tom Slater has been climbing for over 30 years and has authored several other CA climbing guides. He has logged over 150 of his own FAs, and has climbed boulders to big walls all over the US and Europe. An English teacher, he spends his free time traveling, surfing, and hanging out with his wife and kids in their home on the Central CA coast.