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Climber's Guide to Devils Lake (North Coast Books) | 
 enlarge | Author: Sven Olof Swartling
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 787554
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 4.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 0299145948
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.52230975576
EAN: 9780299145941
ASIN: 0299145948
Publication Date: March 15, 1995
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Product Description
The new edition of Climber’s Guide to Devil’s Lake is your guide to the fractures, cracks, ledges, slabs, chimneys, and other rock formations of Devil’s Lake State Park, the most popular climbing spot in the Midwest. This bible for climbers locates and describes more than 1600 climbs.
With more than 10,000 copies of the first edition in print, this handy volume remains the only comprehensive guide to climbing in the panoramic park located near Baraboo, Wisconsin. It describes many more climbs on recently acquired park land as well as in relatively unknown areas, encouraging exploration of new routes to decrease the overuse of, and damage to, the most popular areas.
Major changes in the new edition include revisions of the hiking trail descriptions, the climbing safety and ethics sections, and the rating system, which has been changed from the National Climbing Classification System to the Yosemite Decimal System. A new chart compares these two systems to others. This edition is useful to climbers of all abilities and preferences, and the book’s excellent organization, along with fifty-nine new and revised diagrams, eleven maps, and twenty-two photographs, enable both novices and experts to locate challenging routes easily.
Author “Olle” Swartling draws on his own forty years of climbing experience at Devil’s Lake and elsewhere, comments from other climbers, and information from out-of-print guidebooks to improve this edition, retaining the informative geologic and natural history of the Baraboo hills contributed by Patricia K. Armstrong.
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 Great climbing guide book for Devil's Lake September 30, 2008
Found this book after getting started in outdoor climbing. There are so many routes there, and this book tries to cover them all. Must have for DL.
 Guide to one of the premier Midwestern climbing areas September 6, 1997
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
One would never think of the Midwest as having any great climbing areas. While it isn't Yosemite or Joshua Tree, Devil's Lake in central Wisconsin is one of the country's best climbing spots. This guide details hundreds of great climbs in DL along with maps and climb ratings. Descriptions are short with some beta mixed in and the maps are little confusing. But since most of DL's climbing areas are hidden in the bluffs, the guide is an absolute must. It's also small enough to fit in a back pocket
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