
Climbing Washington's Mountains
Jeff Smoot(Author)
Falcon Guides (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 1. December 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
448 pages
978-1-4930-5643-9 (ISBN)
Description
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 all levels of difficulty, you'll find routes to popular scrambling peaks such as Mount Si, classic alpine rock peaks such as Prusik Peak, and to big volcanoes including Mount Rainier. Fully revised and updated, this book has been praised by scramblers, alpine rock climbers, volcano climbers, and trip leaders alike as being an accurate, user-friendly guide with superb, easy-to-follow route descriptions and drawings, to the summits of the mountains that people actually want to climb.
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Series
Edition
Second Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Rowman & Littlefield
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
142 BW Photos, 40 Maps
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
644 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4930-5643-9 (9781493056439)
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Jeff Smoot
Climbing Washington's Mountains
100 Classic Summit Routes to Washington's Cascade and Olympic Mountains
E-Book
10/2021
2nd Edition
Falcon Guides
€23.73
Available for download
Person
Jeff Smoot is an outdoor adventure writer and photographer primarily known for his hiking and climbing guidebooks including Falcon titles Climbing Washington's Mountains, Rock Climbing Washington, and Best Climbs Cascade Volcanoes. Jeff's book, Hangdog Days: Conflict, Change, and the Race for 5.14, a historical narrative and memoir chronicling rock climbing in the 1980s, was published in 2019. He has written for Outside, Climbing, Rock & Ice, Backpacker, and Mountain magazines. Jeff is a founding member of Friends of Camp Long, a volunteer group that supports youth programs at Camp Long in Seattle, Washington, and the founder of Mountain Fest at Camp Long, an annual celebration of Seattle's rich climbing history and culture. He lives in Seattle.