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Summary: An excellent guide to hiking Colorado fourteeners
Review: If you are into skiing Colorado fourteeners, you might want to check out the Dawson guides, but personally, this book by Gerry Roach is my favorite guide for climbing Colorado's 14,000 foot peaks. Gerry Roach's guidebook provides very good information about the relative difficulty of different hiking and climbing routes, good route maps, photographs of the peaks, and detailed route descriptions. His guidebook provides alternative routes for most of the peaks, and I like the way he lists his favorite routes as "classics." Gerry Roach's guidebook is also more economical than the Dawson guides.
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Summary: Good book
Review: Im sure it is a great book. But I will have to say that the true roll dogs get out on their own and make these books that hundreds of people like you guys buy. Get out on your own and explore Colorado besides buying some book and going places where many have already been.
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Summary: Gerry has done it again!
Review: In 1992 when Gerry Roach came out with the first edition of his Colorado Fourteeners book, it blew the competition away! Well Gerry has done it again! As a collector and owner of just about every 14er book ever printed, I find this new edition to be the best ever. Mr. Roach has added lots of new routes, including some interesting technical ones. His color photos are fantastic, in some cases showing some very unique perspectives. Be sure to check out the companion map package. It's a real bargain, containing all the topo maps you'll need to climb all the 14ers!
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Summary: Excellent
Review: Just paging through this book makes you long for the mountains. I bought it a few months before a planned climbing trip in Colorado and found it most helpful in getting a feel for which peaks I wanted to climb. Being unfamiliar with Colorado geography is a bit of a hindrance, as the directions to the peaks are written for a local, but with this and a good map, planning a trip is a cinch. Don't make the mistake of assuming this will replace a USGS survey map though. The topos in here are far too small to serve as your only trail map, as I found out over the summer. Still, the trail descriptions are good, the pictures are alluring, and I can't wait to use this valuable reference again.
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Summary: The DEFINITIVE 14er Guide
Review: My wife and I have found Gerry's book to be invaluable in getting the beta necessary to climb Colorado's 14ers. His consistent no-nonsense approach gives climbers what they need for a successful experience. We keep the book on the coffee table year-round and often thumb through it in the dead of winter, looking forward to our next adventure.
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Summary: The DEFINITIVE 14er Guide
Review: My wife and I have found Gerry's book to be invaluable in getting the beta necessary to climb Colorado's 14ers. His consistent no-nonsense approach gives climbers what they need for a successful experience. We keep the book on the coffee table year-round and often thumb through it in the dead of winter, looking forward to our next adventure.
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Summary: The latest edition of this classic, now with 50 more routes!
Review: Now in its second edition, this climbing and hiking guide to Colorado's 14,000-foot peaks has been updated to include 250 routes. Besides the often-climbed standard routes, the guide describes many alternative and technical routes, with each route rated by grade, class, and snow steepness. Easy-to-read, full-color topographic maps and photographic overlays, cross-referenced to the route descriptions, make this the best book on the market for Colorado natives and visitors alike.
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Summary: dontneedit
Review: People should find their own way in the mountains-map, compass, knowing the lay of the land-instead of using a guide book to stomp the mountains into oblivion and taking the well-earned exploration out of it. Want to go to the mountains, learn how to truly respect the land. Want to use a guidebook, go to an amusement park. The mountains don't need a bunch of ignorant yuppie idiots destroying the land just to "bag a peak". "Climb the mountains and get their good tidings", but treat them very well. They deserve it.
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Summary: Definitive.
Review: Roach's book is the definitive guide to climbing the 14,000' peaks in Colorado. His descriptions are more uniform than Borneman and Lampert, and with the release of the new edition in 1999, Roach's book also has the most helpful, detailed maps of all the main routes up the peaks.
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Summary: The best guide to the fourteeners
Review: The new edition of Colorado's Fourteeners has updated information on routes and now has colored maps. It is still the best guide to the fourteeners. Its major advantage lies in the classification of the routes according to required effort and technical difficulty. Once you have done a few, you know just what to expect on the next one. (I have completed 39 of Roach's 55 fourteeners.)In his previous edition, Roach discussed at length the criteria for including a peak on the official list. Much of this discussion has been deleted. However, the question remains. For instance, why is North Maroon Peak on the generally accepted list of 54 fourteeners? It does not meet the criteria. Why, when we look towards Mt. Elbert, do we make believe that we do not see the prominent peak on the left, Mt. Elbert-South? Look again, next time you are a few miles south of Leadville. Roach solves the problem by suggesting that the reader go for all the peaks, not just the official 54. This and the inclusion of Challenger Point on a par with the other 54 is a not-so-subtle challenge to the orthodox point of view - if it is not on a t-shirt it does not count. Who knows, maybe someday by popular demand, the Colorado Mountain Club will add a few more to the list of 54. In the meantime, I will write-in Challenger on my fourteeners t-shirt.
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