Colorado’s 14ers, 2nd Ed.: From Hikes to Climbs
Sunday, January 31st, 2010 at
4:17 pm
Product Description
An accurate, complete guide to climbing the 55 peaks over 14,000 feet in Colorado–covering routes for all levels. Each route’s difficulty is rated according to the Yosemite Decimal System. Includes round-trip mileage and elevation gain. Roach has climbed every peak in this guide. Photographs and maps.
Colorado’s 14ers, 2nd Ed.: From Hikes to Climbs
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People should find their own way in the mountains-map, compass, knowing the lay of the land-instead of using a guide book to stomp the mountains into oblivion and taking the well-earned exploration out of it. Want to go to the mountains, learn how to truly respect the land. Want to use a guidebook, go to an amusement park. The mountains don’t need a bunch of ignorant yuppie idiots destroying the land just to “bag a peak”. “Climb the mountains and get their good tidings”, but treat them very well. They deserve it.
Rating: 1 / 5
Im sure it is a great book. But I will have to say that the true roll dogs get out on their own and make these books that hundreds of people like you guys buy. Get out on your own and explore Colorado besides buying some book and going places where many have already been.
Rating: 4 / 5
and accurate in my experience. It’s quite amazing how much work went into this. I hope the author can retire off of the book sales, he deserves it!
Rating: 5 / 5
This is a great reference to Colorado’s 14,000+ foot peaks. The natural grouping of the peaks, the description of all trail heads in each area, and providing numerous routes up each peak are some of the outstanding features. Another is the quality of the maps – in fact they are so good, I wish the author would offer a set of the maps enlarged as a supplemental product. The maps not only clearly depict the routes described with full topographic detail, they are also color coded to show which sections of which routes have specific difficulties (climbing classes).
I had only two issues with this book – the first is that it apparently underestimates difficulty of getting to trail heads with normal cars. The second was that it does not include an overall map of the state showing where the 14ers are located – this is handy if you’re in one area and wondering which are closest. Fortunately, both these can be overcome by checking the Internet.
In summary, if one plans to summit more than one Colorado 14er, this book is indispensable.
Rating: 4 / 5
Gerry Roach has written one of the best guide books I have ever had the pleasure of owning. If you have the basic experience needed for climbing 14′ers this book is extreemly usefull. Complete and well written from approaches to technicial route descriptions. $ 12 bucks. Huh ? Oh the one negitive is you would not want to through this book in your ruck sack it weighs about 5 lbs.
Rating: 5 / 5