Selected Climbs in the Cascades - Softcover

Nelson, Jim; Potterfield, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0898867673 ISBN 13: 9780898867671

Publisher: Mountaineers Books, 2003

Synopsis

For ambitious newbies and hardcore climbers alike, this revised guide includes 12 new climbs in the Cascades.
* Details more than 75 of the most popular climbs in the Cascades

* 200 black and white photographs, half with route overlays

* Thirty maps
Fun and challenging, this edition contains a mix of walk-ups, snow climbs, scrambles, wilderness alpine routes, hard rock climbs, ice climbs, and strenuous mixed climbs. The idea of a qualitative climbing guide-one that rates climbs by appeal, not by difficulty or type of climbing, was new to the Cascades when Selected Climbs in the Cascades was first published, and climbers loved it.

About this title

About the Author:

JIM NELSON, a native Northwesterner, is a professional mountain guide, climber, and mountain-shop owner. He has spent more than thirty years climbing year-round in the Cascades, the past nineteen of those teaching, guiding, and advising on equipment. Nelson has guided clients of all abilities up diverse routes in virtually every corner of the range during all seasons. He has established more than a dozen first ascents in the Cascades. Nelson's experience climbing in the Cascades amounts to decades of exhaustive research for Selected Climbs in the Cascades, Volumes 1 & 2. He is uniquely qualified to assess and evaluate the relative merits of the thousands of routes in the range. He is also a photographer whose mountain images have graced catalog covers and appeared in books and magazines. Nelson has climbed in the Sierra Nevada; the Coast, Purcell, Selkirk, and Rocky Mountain Ranges of British Columbia; the Karakoram; and Alaska, where he made the second ascent of Infinite Spur on Mount Foraker.

Review:

The source my climbing friends and I have used as our first reference the past decade is Selected Climbs in the Cascades: Volume 1...Nicely detailed with helpful diagrams and photo...It's the first book we add to our backpack. (Klamath Falls (OR) Herald and News)

This guide is a wish-book for anyone who has cast a lustful eye upon the Cascades...The result is a thoughtful, well-organized guide to some of the finest mountain routes in the Pacific
Northwest. This is inspiring reading for climbers of all abilities who know what they want, but don't know quite where to find it. (Lewiston Morning Tribune)

About this edition

• Publisher: Mountaineers Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0898867673
• ISBN 13: 9780898867671
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 320