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Red Rocks Climbing: Supertopos | 
 enlarge | Author: Greg Barnes
Brand: SuperTopo
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 559114
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.4
ISBN: 0967239168
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.52230979313
EAN: 9780967239163
ASIN: 0967239168
Publication Date: January 2004
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Product Description
Red Rocks Climbing: SuperTopos by Greg Barnes is a comprehensive guide to the climbing routes in and around Red Rocks Nevada Each route is laid out on an easy to read map and includes the history of the climb, climbing strategy, and retreat information Useful information such as appraoch time, climbing time, descent time, sun exposure times, and route height is also included Features: Specifications:
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 Great collection of Red Rocks climbs February 7, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I've got every Red Rocks guide ever published, which is about 10 books, including a really old one published in Rock and Ice around 1982. This guide is not comprehensive but contains a good selection of classic long routes. One thing I enjoyed was the historical information on each route. For example, Triassic Sands has a section on the history of this climb that can't be found anywhere else.
However, if you just want to get up these routes you may think all this history is unnecessary. Red Rocks is a difficult area for one guide book as there are such a wide variety of climbs, from single pitch sport routes to multi-pitch sport routes to full day trad affairs. This book does seem to emphasize the latter and if you are more into sport climbing you are probably better off buying one of the comprehensive guides.
The photos in this book are superb. The online version, in particular, has some really good shots. I guess they reproduce better on a monitor than on paper.
 Very dissapinting Guidebook December 4, 2006
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
This the most useless climbing guide I have ever seen.
There are 3 guidebooks available for Red Rocks. The best one one is the new eddition of Mountaineers guide edited by Roxanne Brock, which is a very comrehensive, and gives good route descriptions pitch by pitch. It is similar to 'Falcon' guide; in fact it is a copy of it with much improved topos and graphics. It is also somewhat better organized then 'Falcon' guide and provides stellar guide for each route; very helpful. I definitely recommend it.
The only good thing about supertopo guide are actually topos but unfortunately the number of routes described in this book is very limited. I can only guess that the author included only routes he has done, otherwise I cannot understandthe reason of producing the guidebook to a fenomenal climbing area including only 10% routes or so.
Second problem with the book is a lack of detailed route descriptions; instead the author decided to suggest strategy of doing the route consisting of a statement such as that the route is very popular and you should start early to be first in line to avoid waiting in the que; I guess this is really difficult to figure out yourself.
Third problem with the book is the lack of directions on how to get to the route. OK after few days and after talking to other climbers, who have climbed there for few days, you can get a good orientation but if you don't have anyone to ask for directions, you cannot work-out from this book.
The book looks impressive if you never climbed in Red Rocks, but if you did, it is absolutely useless, unless you really want to limit yourself to a small number of routes described in the book.
So do yourself a favor and don't waste your money for this particular book; go for Mountaineers guide, it is very good and useful. Besides it is cheaper. I bought this book because it was offered in the electronic form and I could print it out and reap easily pages with topos for the route.
And go climbing in Red Rocks, it is really a stellar climbing area.
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