Rock Climbing Colorado's San Luis Valley

Rating:
Summary: Good information, but...
Review: Although this book contains some extremely helpful information on climbing in the San Luis Valley of southern Colorado, this homage to Mr. D'Antonio's ego is, at best, painful to read. Mr. D'Antonio's pioneering climbing in this area undoubtedly opened a premier sport climbing region for the benefit of hundreds, if not thousands of climbers. Nonetheless, the qualitative descriptions of the climbs oddly coincide with routes that the author himself developed. The density of self-congratulatory comments becomes choking as one continues to peruse the enclosed information. Climbers visiting the area will buy this book because it contains the best information on the area (it does lack some routes that have been up for a while, but blatantly ignored by the author, a good example being the routes to the right of Mysterious Redhead in Penitente Canyon), but as the day goes on, one may find themselves as exhausted by the insipid writing as the climbing in this gorgeous climbing region.

Rating:
Summary: Good information, but...
Review: Although this book contains some extremely helpful information on climbing in the San Luis Valley of southern Colorado, this homage to Mr. D'Antonio's ego is, at best, painful to read. Mr. D'Antonio's pioneering climbing in this area undoubtedly opened a premier sport climbing region for the benefit of hundreds, if not thousands of climbers. Nonetheless, the qualitative descriptions of the climbs oddly coincide with routes that the author himself developed. The density of self-congratulatory comments becomes choking as one continues to peruse the enclosed information. Climbers visiting the area will buy this book because it contains the best information on the area (it does lack some routes that have been up for a while, but blatantly ignored by the author, a good example being the routes to the right of Mysterious Redhead in Penitente Canyon), but as the day goes on, one may find themselves as exhausted by the insipid writing as the climbing in this gorgeous climbing region.