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Cascade Alpine Guide: Climbing and High Routes, Stevens Pass to Rainy Pass (Cascade Alpine Gde) | 
 enlarge | Author: Fred Beckey
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 181917
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3rd Rev
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 6.9 x 1
ISBN: 0898868386
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.950444
EAN: 9780898868388
ASIN: 0898868386
Publication Date: June 2003
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Cascade Alpine Guide books: Ultimate Cascades Reference series July 22, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
If you aren't yet familiar with Fred Beckey's Cascade Alpine Guide series (3 volumes) but think you know the Cascades mountains-- well, think again! Until you've been through Beckey's 3 books inside and out, back and forth, at least 50 to 100 times, I doubt you could claim much overall knowledge, that is, unless you've been living in the mountains and exploring them continuously for the last 50 years or so!! His CAG series is, without any question, THE ONLY AUTHORITATIVE GUIDEBOOK series on the Cascades mountain range within Washington and British Columbia (doesn't cover the Olympics in WA state and only covers the Cascades to the Fraser River, no farther north as this area becomes other ranges in BC, the interior ranges to the NE, the Coast Range to the NW). This series does not cover Mt. Hood or anything in Oregon or California, but it does cover the Washington volcanoes completely: Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Adams and Mt. Rainier are all in Volume 1; Glacier Peak is in Volume 2; and, Mt. Baker is in Volume 3. A good set of topo maps at the 1:24,000 scale, along with Beckey's books, is a virtual necessity in order to gain a full perspective on this amazingly complex and super-spectacular mountain range. I recommend you either buy the real USGS ones, or print them out yourself (or just study them on a big monitor) by buying and using one of about 3 or 4 good software packages that are all readily available (see http://www.rei.com for one good source of most of what I've mentioned) on the net or through many map stores, book stores, mountain, hiking and camping equipment stores, etc., etc., throughout the USA. Author Fred Beckey is the "King of the Cascades." Every decent mountain climber in the Northwest (and many from afar, too) knows this. He has put up more first ascents and new routes than any other three or four people combined that I know of (in many other places besides the Cascades, too). But, these books, my God, are they informative-- so much so that every hardcore backpacker or hiker, every geographer, every geologist, every landform scientist, every resource manager, every Forest or Park Service employee, every person who loves mountains and glaciers and on and on, they all need and want these guides. Why? They describe not just climbing routes but all the approach routes, highways, roads, abandoned roads, trails, valleys, glaciers, bivouacs, camping and transportation facilities, climbing and exploration history of each area, all the specific geology and geography of each peak and each group of peaks, all the glaciers and ice-climbing routes, plus anything at all that is a pertinent detail in any way relating to these mountains and anything in them. One warning-- be advised, the estimated hiking/climbing times listed in these guidebooks are listed accurately for very seasoned and physically-fit mountaineers and explorers under optimum conditions only. The rest of us must allow much additional time to accomplish the same given goal. Or if the conditions aren't perfect, allow for it. Do not confuse times listed in "hiking" books with anything described and written in these Beckey guides! If you do, you'll be very sorry and sadly deflated of motivation when you learn how far behind your "planned" schedule you really are. Oh, and here's one more "tip" for studying the Cascades, with or without the Beckey books and the maps I've described: download the Google Earth (the basic one is free) application for viewing the mountains in great detail and in 3D from any angle or elevation perspective. This for me is an absolute "must" as well as the books and maps. Also, Fred Beckey has written another book on exploring the Cascades (historical) called "Range of Glaciers: The Exploration and Survey of the Northern Cascade Range" which may be of interest to some people. Last time I checked it was only available in the hardback version, but I expect that at some point it will become available in paperback. The Cascade Alpine Guides are only available in paperback, to my knowledge. I personally own every edition of every volume of each of Fred Beckey's books, not to show my loyalty, but because I think they're worth it!!
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