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Yosemite Big Walls (Supertopo) | 
| Authors: Chris Mcnamara, Erik Sloan
Publisher: Supertopo
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 267186
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Pages: 209
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 6.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 0967239192
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9780967239194
ASIN: 0967239192
Publication Date: June 1, 2005
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Product Description
Yosemite Big Walls is the most current, detailed, and accurate guide to Yosemite's most classic walls such as El Cap and Half Dome. This 208 page full-color printed guidebook includes unprecedented route detail such as climbing strategy, retreat information, descent topos, pitch lengths, and gear recommendations for each pitch. In addition, Yosemite Big Walls include historical information garnered from interviews with first ascentionists that bring these spectacular big wall climbs to life. Yosemite Big Walls covers the 54 best big wall routes on El Capitan, Half Dome, and Washington Column all of which were personally climbed and documented by authors Chris McNamara and Erik Sloan.
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Best Topo book series February 13, 2007
Renato Gomes Ferraz (London, UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The SuperTopo series of books is really well organized and presented. I purchased most of its books, including Yosemite Big Walls, Red Rocks Climbing, South Lake Tahoe Climbing, High Sierra Climbing, Yosemite Valley Free Climbs and Tuolumne Free Climbs.
As of today I cannot comment on the accuracy of the topos themselves, as I will be using the books to plan a climbing trip I intend to take later this year. I won't be going everywhere, but I wanted the books to help me decide which places were better suited for my tastes and hability and to inspire me. But the information provided does seem very complete, with lots of attention to detail. There is a supporting web site where they provide updated information on changes to the routes and where climbers can make comments to the topos. This is nice.
That said, I do have some comments on things that could be improved. First of all, Yosemite Big Walls is the only book in the list that comes with color photos. It is in its second edition, and is the last one published. So maybe future editions of the other books will also include color photos (color photos do inspire me a lot more). One alternative is to order the e-book versions, all with color. The publisher sells them at its web site, but there is no discount if you want to purchase both e-book and print. They both cost the same price. Another advantage of the e-book is the possibility of printing just the routes you will be climbing. This way it is less weight to carry, and your print copy is preserved.
In the future it would be nice to see both versions bundled together. I tried to contact the author about his thoughts on that but unfortunately never received any comments back.
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