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Cascade Alpine Guide, Vol. 3: Rainy Pass to Fraser River

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Category: Books & Maps

  • Cascades climbing routes -- the guidebooks relied on for more than 25 years
  • Northwest climbing legend Fred Beckey has summited and explored hundreds of Cascade peaks
  • Hand-drawn maps and photos with route overlays, as well as approach information


Hikers, scramblers, serious climbers and Northwest rescue organizations, alike, have relied on Fred Beckey's Cascade Alpine Guides for decades to lead them through this wild mountain range. In addition to their comprehensiveness, the books provide a rare combination of aerial photos with route overlays, three-dimensional illustrated maps, and climbing topos.

The section of the North Cascades covered in this volume is roughly a pie-shaped area in the northern section of the range, stretching from the Lake Chelan area up into Canada and west to Bellingham. Except for glaciers and some year-round snow fields, it's mostly dry, lonesome, open country, with beautiful granite spires jutting to the sky.

416 pages
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 978-1-59485-136-0
Published: Dec 15, 2008

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Customer Reviews (5.0 / 5 · 5 reviews)

David ★★★★★

The hand-drawn maps in this guide are worth it alone — I've used them to plan three trips into the Pasayten area and they've been spot on every time. Beckey's route descriptions don't sugarcoat anything, which is exactly what you want when you're staring up at something sketchy.

Penelope ★★★★★

I've been climbing in the Cascades for years and this volume finally covers the Rainy Pass to Fraser River routes I kept guessing at. Beckey's route descriptions are dense but honest, and the photos helped me pick lines that actually matched my skill level.

Jacob W. ★★★★★

The hand-drawn maps are what sold me — you can trace every gully and rib on a rainy evening before a climb. Beckey clearly walked these basins himself, and the route notes read like advice from someone who's actually been up there.