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Technical Slot Canyon Guide to the Colorado Plateau | 
 enlarge | Author: Michael R. Kelsey
Publisher: Kelsey Publishing (Utah)
Category: Book
Buy New: $179.36
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 339024
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 286
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 0944510205
EAN: 9780944510209
ASIN: 0944510205
Publication Date: May 2003
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 Trusting this book is a bad idea March 30, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The information we found on the internet for E Fork Leprechaun was much better than the information found in this book. After we completed the E Fork, we re-read the hike description in this book and decided it would have been difficult to even find the canyon had we been using only the book's hike description. We'll use this book for supplemental information, but I would certainly not trust it as a sole source of information going into a canyon. I'm accustomed to good guidebooks which tell you all you need to know to navigate and be as safe as possible on a hike. I expect to be able to photocopy the book pages, get a TOPO and then have enough information to do the hike. After the E Fork, I would not do that with this book, I would gather more information before entering a canyon.
On the bright side, the book is interesting and I enjoyed looking through it. Just don't trust your life to the information contained in it.
 Good with caveats December 22, 2004
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
This book opens up in a clear and descriptive fashion many of the difficult and technical canyons in the colorado plateau. These canyons as described are an underappreciated yet fabulous landscape and I believe represent the very best example of exiting wilderness sport combined with incomparable beauty in the United States. Very helpful when planning trips or deciding which canyon to visit. Of course, as far as technique is concerned, I agree with other readers that his suggestion to use a geological pick hammer to get out of potholes is more than a bit excessive and needlessly destructive. Much better to use small bathooks in existing cracks, do shoulder stands, pack tosses, or to chip small barely noticeable notches with a bolt kit for bathooks if absolutely required. Canyoneering is becoming more popular and I believe Michael should use his considerable influence in this small sport to preserve the fragile areas available and encourage respect for the resource.
The 'Key to the Lock' August 25, 2003
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
The Colorado Plateau is in my backyard and Michael Kelsey's books have helped me unlock the mysteries of the beautiful canyon country within.
If you're a technical canyoneer, no other book comes close to this one in guiding you to the best slot canyons on the Colorado Plateau.
Most 'sour grapes' type of reviews of this book are from folks who've been loathe to reveal what they thought were there personal secrets. Humbug!
I say, "Welcome!" and enjoy...
Hackers Guide to the Slots July 25, 2003
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
There's a lot of information in this book. Unfortunately, in this book the author promotes the use of techniques that permanently scar the very canyons he claims to want to protect. How absolutely absurd is it to chop a big hole into pristine sandstone instead of using natural anchors that are just a foot or so away! I personally would recommend boycotting this book. But since that won't happen (there really IS a lot of information in this book), I hope readers will be more careful than Mr. Kelsey's new book when it comes to the environment.
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