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Olympic Mountains: A Climbing Guide

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Category: Books & Maps

  • Includes Alpine Rock, Crags and Sport Routes, and Bouldering sections
  • Historical and biographical anecdotes
  • GPS waypoints added for key route descriptions

From the hard basalt lava peaks of Constance and The Brothers, to the high-angle faces of The Needles and Sawtooth Ridge, to the sandstone and vast glaciers of Mount Olympus, and hundreds of other mountains large and small. Olympic Mountains: A Climbing Guide is the definitive climbing guide authored by Olympic Mountain Rescue (OMR), a group of volunteers dedicated to saving lives for the last 50 years through search, rescue, and mountain safety education. In preparing this new edition, OMR drew not only on their own extensive experience throughout the range, but also on the knowledge of the National Park and Forest Services and other organizations and climbers.

This edition includes an Alpine Rock section featuring classic climbs, a Crags and Sport Routes section revealing several rock climbing challenges within a short walk from roads, plus great bouldering locations. In addition, there are route descriptions for "High Alpine Traverses" including refined Bailey Range data; traverse legs have also been added.

352 pages


Publisher: Mountaineers Books


ISBN: 978-0-89886-206-5


Published: Mar 23, 2006

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Customer Reviews (5.0 / 5 · 5 reviews)

Jacob J. ★★★★★

Didn't expect the historical anecdotes to pull me in, but I ended up reading the Constance chapter twice before even planning a trip. The GPS waypoints saved me a lot of second-guessing on the approach, and the bouldering section covers way more than I figured it would.

Steven ★★★★★

I've used a lot of climbing guides that skimp on the bouldering, so finding a whole dedicated section for it here was a nice surprise. The historical anecdotes about the early routes up Constance actually made me read cover to cover instead of just flipping to the topos.

Hannah T. ★★★★★

The GPS waypoints for the Constance routes saved me hours of guessing on my last trip. I also appreciate that it covers bouldering and sport routes in the same book instead of making me buy three separate guides.