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Colorado's Fourteeners, 2nd Ed.: From Hikes to Climbs Review

Let's say you know you are going to be in a certain area of Colorado and want to see what fourteeners are close. With the way this book is set up you have to

1. Go to the Colorado map and find a potential mountain, say #21.

2. Go to the peak index and find that #21 = mt. yale.

3. Go to the index in the back to find that mt. yale is on page 122.

4. Go to page 122 to see if you want to do mt. yale.

To make a decission on which one you want to do you have to go through this process for each potential mountain.

It seems the only possible explanation for why the book is set up this way is because they thought it was more important for people to be able to quickly identify a mountains' rank by height than to quickly learn more relavent things like location, difficulty, different routes... But who really cares? How important is it to immediately know that mt. yale is the 21st largest peak in CO and, say, mt. shavano is the 17th? There's only a 30 foot difference between the two.

Anyway, I still gave it 4 stars so obviously I liked the information contained in the book it just blows my mind that an author who specializes in the subject would be so clueless as to how people would use the book.

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This climbing and hiking guide to Colorado's 14,000-foot peaks has been updated.

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Customer Reviews

The best for the dry season - L. Lieb - Denver, CO
In addition to an array of routes to chose from, Roach's guide also has the best descriptions on route and potential hazards on routes.Roach's guide is stellar for those interested in climbing in the summer and early fall seasons, when snow isn't an issue.

Unlike Dawson there are few (if any) references to ski-mountaineering, and a limited number of snow routes. For this reason, Roach's guide isn't the greatest for those interested in snow-climbing and ski descents. If snow-climbing and ski-descents are your fancy pick up a copy of Dawson's Guide to Colorado's Fourteeners, Vol. 1: The Northern Peaks or Dawson's Guide to Colorado's Fourteeners, Volume 2, the Southern Peaks

Great guide to the Colorado 14ers - Eric Kassan - Las Vegas, NV USA
This is a great reference to Colorado's 14,000+ foot peaks. The natural grouping of the peaks, the description of all trail heads in each area, and providing numerous routes up each peak are some of the outstanding features. Another is the quality of the maps - in fact they are so good, I wish the author would offer a set of the maps enlarged as a supplemental product. The maps not only clearly depict the routes described with full topographic detail, they are also color coded to show which sections of which routes have specific difficulties (climbing classes).

I had only two issues with this book - the first is that it apparently underestimates difficulty of getting to trail heads with normal cars. The second was that it does not include an overall map of the state showing where the 14ers are located - this is handy if you're in one area and wondering which are closest. Fortunately, both these can be overcome by checking the Internet.

In summary, if one plans to summit more than one Colorado 14er, this book is indispensable.

Excellent Guide book - T. Shea - Ft Lauderdale, Florida USA
Gerry Roach has written one of the best guide books I have ever had the pleasure of owning. If you have the basic experience needed for climbing 14'ers this book is extreemly usefull. Complete and well written from approaches to technicial route descriptions. $ 12 bucks. Huh ? Oh the one negitive is you would not want to through this book in your ruck sack it weighs about 5 lbs.

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