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For climbers who want to make the most of their time on Arizona rock—after work or on a weekend trip · More than 230 trad and sport climbs from 5.0 to 5.10a
· Destination chart lists climbing season, climbing type, drive time, and approach times
· Topo maps or photos with route overlays for most routes
· Climbs indexed by star rating, difficulty, and more Whether you are an Arizona climber who wants to get out for the weekend or a vis… More >>
Weekend Rock Arizona: Trad and Sport Routes from 5.0 to 5.10 a
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The approach beta in this book for What’s My Line and for the Rockfellow formations is better than that found in any other book on the area, including Kerry’s book (Backcountry Climbing in Southern Arizona, the acknowledged bible for Cochise). In addition, the updated approach to Warpath, and the inclusion of Sedona routes like the Mace and Four Flying Apaches (another item not found in any other guide) would probably make this a worthwhile purchase for most visitors. Its low price is a huge plus for out-of-state visitors like me who nonetheless don’t like to waste time getting hopelessly lost. It covers a lot of routes in a lot of areas within Arizona, more of a sampler than anything else, yet it somehow also manages to pack in a lot of extremely useful and current beta.
My first trip to Cochise was this past week and it was amazing. I don’t know if it would have been half as much fun without the guidance of Abbott’s book here. The finest route we climbed on, ‘Endgame’, is a steep, 5 pitch bolted 5.10a that I knew only from magazine photos and scant Internet beta. It’s not covered in Abbott’s book — but the approach to the End Pinnacle routes is, paradoxically, better covered in Abbott’s book than any of the guides that do have topos for Endgame. (If you want a comprehensive guidebook to Cochise, you need to supplement Kerry’s book with the updated approaches found in this book, anyways — and Kerry’s book covers many more obscure crags which will be of keen interest to repeat visitors. Alas, it is out of print — but the Summit Hut people have a copy which you may be able to Xerox, if you ask nicely.) In any event, once you arrive at the West Stronghold (another handy suggestion from Abbott is to stick with the West Stronghold as your base camp), it is likely that other climbers will be about, so ask them.
If you are planning a road trip to Arizona, this $10 book is a no-brainer.
Rating: 5 / 5