Cirque of the Towers & Deep Lake
A Select Guide to the Wind Rivers' Best Rock Climbing
ISBN: 9781933009162
Volume 2 in the "Cowboy Rock" series of Wyoming climbing guides. This is the most up to date and only color guide available to the best alpine rock climbing in America. Featuring over 60 routes including the classic Wolf's Head and Pingora.
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Night Driving
Invention of the Wheel & Other Blues
A Memoir by Dick Dorworth

The legendary Mountain Gazette #30 piece, "Night Driving" reprinted here for the first time along with six other poignant tales of adventure, observation and commentary by the Godfather of the modern road trip.
Foreword by Jack Turner.
ISBN: 9781933009025
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Ski Trail of Southwest Montana
30 of the Best Cross Country and Snowshoe Trails Around Big Sky, Bozeman & Paradise Valley
ISBN: 9781933009148
Volume 1 in the "Greater Yellowstone Ski Trails" series of winter guides. This is the only guide to one of the greatest nordic venues in America. Full of detailed information on the trails, kid and dog friendliness, nature & wildlife notes and "taking it further" into the endless Montana landscape.
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Lost Horse Canyon by Joe Josephson
A Climber's Guide to Montana's Best Cragging & Bouldering
ISBN: 9781933009155
Volume 3 in the "Big Sky Rock" series of Montana climbing guides. Featuring almost 100 pitches of quality crack climbing, at all grades, and over 200 boulder problems up to V11, this is the first comprehensive guide to this year round venue.
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Lander Sport Climbs by Steve Bechtel
A Climber's Guide to Wild Iris, Sinks Canyon & More
ISBN13: 9781933009063
Volume 1 in the "Cowboy Rock" series of Wyoming climbing guides. Whether you are seeking out some of America's most famous 5.13 & 5.14 climbs to finding the classic 9s and 10s, "Lander Sport Climbs" is your essential guide.
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Winter Dance Limited Edition:
Numbered 100 copies signed by 27 of the leading pioneers of Cody, Beartooth and Hyalite ice climbing including: Author Joe Josephson & Mark Twight. Dirty Socks Club founders Doug McCarty, Davy Vaughn & Brian Leo. Also: Jack Tackle, Pat Callis, Chad Chadwick, Kirt Cozzens, Todd Cozzens, Stan Price, Doug Chabot, Terry Kennedy, Jim Kanzler, Kris Erickson, and more.
Comes with original Certificate of Authenticity and guide to the names (click below to see PDF of image to the left).
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$50.00
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Granite Peak : 12,799 ft
Montana's Highest Point : A Climbing Guide & 1:24,000 Topo Map
ISBN10: 1-933009-047
For the first time there is one product with all the maps, logistical information and climbing descriptions for Montana's most popular a summit. With a unique map at an unprecedented scale created by the award winning Alpine Mapping Guild, this beautiful rendering of Granite Peak will look as good on your wall as it will work in the field climbing one of the country's finest alpine gems.
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Central Montana Rock by Jake Mergenthaler
Climbs Around Helena, Canyon Ferry &
The Rocky Mountain Front
ISBN10: 1-933009-13-1
Volume 2 in the "Big Sky Rock" series of Montana climbing guides, this guide covers the best limestone climbing in the state plus the northern extension of granite Boulder Batholith. Featuring roadside crags like Hellgate Gulch and Indian Creek, the historic Sheep Mountain, emerging venues like Trout Creek Canyon, and one of the best multi-pitch crags in the state, Blackleaf Canyon near the Bob Marshall Wilderness.
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Butte's Climbing Guide, 3rd Edition by Dwight R. Bishop
Featuring Whiskey Gulch Bouldering by Alek Tkach
Foreword by Joe Josephson
ISBN10: 1-933009-01-2
This book highlights Montana's most famous back country crag, The Wedge in the Humbug Spires Primative Area, the roadside rocks at Spire Rock and along Homestake Pass, and the newest discovered cliffs at the spectacular "Roof Rock" and Gillespie Basin. A bonus chapter includes Whiskey Gulch Bouldering and hundreds of problems from V0 to V11 in what is emerging as one of the country's finest bouldering venues.
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Winter Dance:
Select Ice Climbs in Southern Montana & Northern Wyoming
Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year Award in Adventure / Recreation, 2004.
Foreword by Mark Twight.
ISBN: 1-933009-00-4
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Waterfall Ice:
Climbs in the Canadian Rockies, 4th edition, 2002
Finalist at the 9th Annual Banff Mountain Book Festival, 2002.
Rocky Mountain Books, Calgary, AB.
ISBN: 0-921102-68-2
First published in 1994, now considered the "bible" of ice climbing in Canada, Waterfall Ice is widely regarded to have set a new standard for climbing guide accuracy and inspiration. The 2002 4th edition profiles over 800 routes in the "Mecca" of world ice and mixed climbs.
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