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Welcome to: ClimbingSonomaCounty.Homestead.com |
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Sonoma County |
Sunset Boulders- |
Mount St. Helena |
Dry Creek Sea Crag- |
www.Expedia.com |
Secreats Wall- |
Twin Coves- |
-Table Rock |
Gualala State Park Boulders |
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Look for A new Bay Area Guide from the folks at Falcon Press to be published soon!--------------- ----------------------- ----------------------- ----------------------- ----------------------- ----------------------- |
Update climbing information! |
Brag about your last climb! |
This excellent book by local climber Chris Summit features accurate and useful crag topos. Chris also shares some intresting new areas and provides first hand route and bouldering information. This guide is "The choice" for local information about hard bouldering in the North Bay. |
Jim Thornburg's ubiquitous Bay Area Rock. Now in it's new 2001 edition (Old edition shown), features climbing information for the greater San Francisco Bay Area and Sierra foothills. Jim has been continually gathering information from local climbers and improving each publication. The latest edition takes a big leap with glossy photographs, better topos, and updated and revised beta. |
Not Reviewed/ Not yet published. |
Quickdraw Topos cost about a buck, are fun to own, and provide basic information for orienting yourself to the routes in the featured area. Self published by Jordi. |
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More books on local areas, by local people comming soon. My personal feeling is you can never own too many guide books. Buy them all and support the work (and climbing habits) of other climbers who are willing to share topos and information |
Secrets Cove- |
Fort Ross Boulder- |
Ken Stanton writes an exhaustive and entertaining history of Mount St. Helena. Great for orienting yourself to the mountain and the surrounding area. |
Another outstanding guide by local climber/author Ken Stanton. This book is very useful in exploring for new climbs, hikes and adventures. |
About the editor: Mark K. Howe has been climbing Sonoma County since 1985. Inspired by Jim Cambell's lament "If we just had fifteen pitches close to home" Mark began the endless crag search and for more then a decade has been searching out and climbing every corner of Sonoma County (along with some poaching in Napa and Marin) "You never know untill you go out and touch it yourself.....and then go back and climb it a couple more times". Mark lives in Santa Rosa where he designs search and rescue equipment for fire departments and industry. During the summer he works as a professional mountian guide on Mt. Shasta. Although Mark says this is not a complete listing by any means "I think that you will find at least fifteen pitches or more of quality climbing listed on my site, or enough to keep you busy untill you get old and and take up boating" Mark plans to keep updating and adding to the website untill he runs out of free space on homestead. |
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