New Indian Creek Guidebook

Indian Creek climbers, rejoice! The second edition of the guidebook for Indian Creek will be available in April from Sharp End Books. From their website:

“The definitive guide to climbing in Indian Creek. No other book has done more to change the face of guidebooks. The first full-color guide in the US, Bloom’s masterpiece captured the flavor and aura of this breathtaking area through vivid photographs and poignant essays. The new edition boasts more than 100 additional routes and extra gear beta.”

Also, as an added bonus, if you preorder the book right now, you can download an ebook pdf which has all the same info. Sounds good to me.

Hopefully we’ll have a copy to review soon , and let you know whether it’s worth throwing down another $35 for this book.

There are of course already the haters that are sounding off, but blaming a guidebook for a world class area’s popularity is just asinine. Damn, I wish they hadn’t published that guidebook for Yosemite, it really ruined the place! In reality, if anything, this guidebook has shown people the incredible wealth of climbs outside the previously well known areas and has spread climber impact across many walls, versus having a few get fully abused. The Creek is only going to be more and more popular, and I’m thankful we have a guidebook to show us all the different places we can climb.