Product DescriptionThe new edition of Climber's Guide to Devil's Lake is your guide to the fractures, cracks, ledges, slabs, chimneys, and other rock formations of Devil's Lake State Park, the most popular climbing spot in the Midwest. This bible for climbers locates and describes more than 1600 climbs.
With more than 10,000 copies of the first edition in print, this handy volume remains the only comprehensive guide to climbing in the panoramic park located near Baraboo, Wisconsin. It describes many more climbs on recently acquired park land as well as in relatively unknown areas, encouraging exploration of new routes to decrease the overuse of, and damage to, the most popular areas.
Major changes in the new edition include revisions of the hiking trail descriptions, the climbing safety and ethics sections, and the rating system, which has been changed from the National Climbing Classification System to the Yosemite Decimal System. A new chart compares these two systems to others. This edition is useful to climbers of all abilities and preferences, and the book's excellent organization, along with fifty-nine new and revised diagrams, eleven maps, and twenty-two photographs, enable both novices and experts to locate challenging routes easily.
Author Olle Swartling draws on his own forty years of climbing experience at Devil's Lake and elsewhere, comments from other climbers, and information from out-of-print guidebooks to improve this edition, retaining the informative geologic and natural history of the Baraboo hills contributed by Patricia K. Armstrong.
Product DetailsPrice: $17.95
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press; 2nd Rev&En edition (March 15, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0299145948
ISBN-13: 978-0299145941
Product Dimensions: 8 x 4.8 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 9.3 ounces
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| Alpinist | Must have | | 
Voted 5/5 | This is the definitive guidebook for rock climbing at Devil's Lake. The book contains detailed descriptions of over 1600 different routes in the bluffs that surround the lake, with pictoral maps and difficulty ratings for each route. It also provides trail maps and directions on how to find them.
Just a caution about the route ratings. General consensus from local climbers is that many routes are more difficult than their listed rating. (I know they always say that, but this time it's true.)  | | Posted Mar 19, 2007 3:41 pm |
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