Climber's Guide to the Olympic Mountains

by Olympic Mountain Rescue

Book Overview

Authoritative information on all access and climbing routes in the Olympics, plus winter travel and high-alpine traverses. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898861543
• ISBN13: 9780898861549
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Mountaineers Books
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.8" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

This book opened up the Olympics for me.

In the early 1970s, I began to explore the Olympic Mountains. I was fascinated with exploring the hard to reach nooks and crannies of the high country. I wanted to find ways to get to the off trail, enticing high ridges and huge high altitude open spaces I found on contour maps of the time. Then this book landed in my lap and I suddenly had reliable routes to every interesting spot in the Olympics. You see, I discovered that all I had to do to find routes into seldom visited cirques and traverses was to find the name of a peak near the area of interest and plot the access route described - rarely climbing a peak, but always finding a good route to the surrounding high country. The book never failed me, and I have a collection of rarely traveled, beautiful high trips in my memory and photo albums - and in my future. For those of us who love mountaineering the Olympics, this is a valuable "back door" guide to the whole range.