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Recommended guidebooks and other references. Note that most can be purchased directly from Amazon.com.
Guidebooks to selected areas.
Joshua Tree Rock Climbing Guide Randy Vogel
625 pages. A massive guide full of B/W photo-topos and sketch maps. The best single guidebook to the thousands of routes at Joshua Tree National Park.
Climber's Guide to Tahquitz and Suicide Bob Gaines & Randy Vogel
240 pages. Hundreds of carefully described routes, each with detailed topos. The only current guide to these historic formations.
Southern California Bouldering Craig Fry
208 pages.
Rock Climbing Red Rocks Todd Swain
256 pages. The only in-print guidebook to Red Rock's long trad and short sport routes.
How-to books for general rock climbing.
How To Rock Climb! John Long
214 pages.
Advanced Rock Climbing John Long
244 pages.
Bouldering John (The Vermin) Sherman
96 pages.
Climbing Anchors John Long
160 pages. Excellent instruction for one the most crucial of trad climbing techniques.
More Climbing Anchors John Long and Bob Gaines
80 pages. More examples of how to build good anchors.
Knots For Climbers Craig Luebben
40 pages.
Big Walls John Long and John Middendorf
160 pages.
Sport Climbing John Long
160 pages.
Clip and Go! (Sport Climbing) John Long and Duane Raleigh
64 pages.
Gym Climb! John Long
58 pages.
Toproping S. Peter Lewis
100 pages. All you need to know to safely set up your own top-roped climbs.
Flash Training Eric Horst
200 pages.
How To Climb 5.12 Eric Horst
120 pages.
Guidebooks to selected areas.
California's Fourteeners S. Porcella and C. Burns
96 pages. This inexpensive guide has been an invaluable reference. Well written, good B/W photos, and sketch maps showing the dog routes for all the 14'ers. A deal at under $15!
Climbing California's Fourteeners S. Porcella and C. Burns
272 pages. The big brother to Porcella & Burns' earlier volume. This brand new guide contains not just the easiest routes, but almost every known route up all the 14'ers. Extensive historical notes, excellent bibliography, and a generous number of photos and topos. I had to buy it as soon as I saw it.
High Sierra Peaks, Passes and Trails R. J. Secor
368 pages. Covers every named peak in the Sierra, and dozens of interesting cross-country routes. A great reference when planning hiking or skiing trips off the beaten path.
Sierra Classics J. Moynier and C. Fiddler
328 pages. The authors came up with a list of 100 of their favorite Sierra peaks and put them into an excellent guide. Each peak gets at least a page of text and a full-page B/W photo. Some of the more technical routes also have detailed topos.
Mount Whitney: The Complete Trailhead-to-Summit Hiking Guide Paul Richins and Steve Roper
Published in 2001.
Mount Whitney Guide for Hikers and Climbers Paul Hellweg, Scott McDonald
Everything you wanted to know about Mount Whitney, and then some.
High Sierra Hiking Guide to Mt. Whitney Thomas Winnett
85 pages. Even more about Whitney.
The Climber's Guide to the High Sierra Steve Roper
380 pages. This was the original guide to the Sierra
Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada Clarence King
Written by one of the Sierra's early explorers.
Close Ups of the High Sierra Norman Clyde
Norman Clyde needs no introduction. Short essays describe Clyde's Sierra adventures in the early 1900's.
High Sierra : John Muir's Range of Light Phil Arnot
Over seventy Sierra hikes and almost forty wilderness trips.
Instructional and educational books on mountaineering.
Mountaineering : The Freedom of the Hills Don Graydon and Kurt Hanson (Editors)
544 pages. This is the bible for all mountaineering techniques. A must-have book.
Lightweight Alpine Climbing With Peter Croft Peter Croft
96 pages. Great tips for travelling light.
Glacier Travel and Crevasse Rescue Andy Selters
A great reference.
Entertaining and sometimes harrowing reading about climbing and mountaineering.
A Night on the Ground, A Day in the Open Doug Robinson
Essays on climbing, bouldering, and skiing.
Eiger Dreams : Ventures Among Men and Mountains Jon Krakauer
192 pages. Excellent collection of writings.
Touching the Void: The Harrowing First Person Account Of One Man's Miraculous Survival Joe Simpson, Chris Bonington
192 pages. Mandatory reading for all mountaineers.
This Game of Ghosts Joe Simpson
In his second book, Simpson details further near-death experiences.
Close Shaves : Classic Stories on the Edge John Long (editor)
160 pages.
John Long's Campfire Howlers : Stories to Amuse and Entertain John Long (editor)
160 pages.
Rock Jocks, Wall Rats and Hang Dogs : Rock Climbing on the Edge of Reality John Long
174 pages.
Camp 4 : Recollections of a Yosemite Rockclimber Steve Roper
255 pages.
Rock Junction : Essays and Short Fiction John Long
192 pages.
Tales from the Steep : John Long's Favorite Climbing Literature John Long (editor)
184 pages.
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