Climbing Washington's Mountains: 100 Classic Summit Routes to Washington's Cascade and Olympic Mountains

by Jeff Smoot

Book Overview

This select guide includes detailed, easy to follow directions to climbing 100 of Washington's most visible, historically significant, and interesting mountains with summits over 5,000 feet. From introductory level off-trail summit hikes and scrambles to multi-pitch alpine rock and high volcano climbs, this guide is suitable for beginning scramblers and alpine rock climbers as well as more experienced climbers. Blending all types of climbing at...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493056433
• ISBN13: 9781493056439
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Falcon Press Publishing
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Worth The Money!

This book gave me a great description of the routes to some of the most scenic and captivating peaks in Washington. I especially liked the way he gave other options to chose from if you didn't like the route he chose. The only problem I had was a very minor one, I felt he could have added several more Olympic peaks like the bailey range, stone, and some lesser known (which means less crowded) peaks like McCartney or Warrior. Other than that this book is a must have for everyone from a scrambler to a technical mountaineer looking to climb the Highest peaks of Washington

A very useful resource

Smoot bills his book as a "Selected Climbs" for the rest of us. I'm not quite sure I buy that, but I do think this book deserves a spot on the shelf nestled in between "Selected Climbs" and Beckey.Compared to Goldman's "75 Scrambles", it is noticably better in some respects: it covers a wider range of climbing (all the way from class 2 to easy class 5); it covers a wider variety of climbing (more snow routes); and it does a better job at providing and describing options beyond just the most popular route.

Usefull Guide

I think the book is great because it combinesroutes from 4 different books.3 of Beckeys,one the Guide to the Olympics.It shows the approch roads, trails, every thing on the same page.I don't have to figure out which Face or route to dohe has already picked the best routes.There is a lot of climbs that I have wanted to dobut haven't done them because I wasn't sure about the trails or logging roads in the area.Now I can do them.A lot of the climbs seem to be easy on the technical side.I like that, Now I don't need a partner justtake off on the spur of the moment and go climb something.There are also some good moderate climbs for a weekend party of climbers.I think he has made a good choice of mountains,the "must do" ones for Alpine climbers.They are cool looking and in scenic areas.Some thing for everyone except the hard core rock jock.The best thing about the book is the author has doneall the home work, you don't have to wadethrough a bunch of stuff. Just Climb