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Dresden guidebook?

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Ryan Curry · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jun 2008 · Points: 425

Anyone know where I can find a guide to rock climbing in Dresden? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Ryan

Jim Titt · · Germany · Joined Nov 2009 · Points: 490

About the only one you can get easily is from bergverlag-roelke.de/ which covers the area pretty well and is in 6 volumes. Most of the other versions are no longer published or incomplete but you can pick them up on ebay sometimes.

Good website and loads of route info on teufelsturm.de but be warned, the area is gigantic with over 10,000 routes in their databank alone!

Jim

Brian in SLC · · Sandy, Utah · Joined Oct 2003 · Points: 21,711

Sounds like an area that could use the dreaded "best of" guide.

Daunting.

Any idea the classics in the area?

On my list of places to visit.

Cheers!

Steve0 · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Mar 2010 · Points: 5

Close to Dresden, on the Czech/German border, the area is called Sächsische Schweiz. I would use that search term on some german sites. I don't know of any guidebooks though.

Jim Titt · · Germany · Joined Nov 2009 · Points: 490

The other guides from Robert Hahn and Jürgen Schmeisser are compacter at 2 and 3 volumes respectively but they are harder to use since everything is brutally crammmed in. The old DDR guides were in such small print you can´t believe, like a pocket dictionary.

The Frankenjura is similar, the new guide having 1,408 pages in two volumes and over 10,700 routes.

Best of is difficult with that many routes and leads to overuse of certain cliffs which is bad news since both areas are national parks.

Best is to try and hook up with someone who knows the area, it´s a bit wierd there anyway for the first timers and confusing!

Jim

Travis Spaulding · · Las Vegas, NV. · Joined Nov 2010 · Points: 30

Yeah I would +1 to finding a local.

I will be there in mid August and that's our plan right now. Busily building my knot rack as we speak. I have to make my monkey's fists and a spatel but all the smaller stuff is done.

I am really stoked and looking forward to it!

Be safe and have fun!

Ryan Curry · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jun 2008 · Points: 425

Thanks, Jim. I'll find someone to help navigate the sites you mentioned and probably pick up a couple guides online.

Euan Cameron · · Mammoth Lakes, CA · Joined Jan 2007 · Points: 65,346

Sorry I can't help with a guide, but I do have some personal experience.

We were traveling around East Germany in the late 80s and it didn't take too long to find a bar at the end of the day with climbers in it. We hooked up with a couple of locals and despite a language barrier they took us out over the next few days and we did some crazy stuff.

If you do hook up with a local bare in mind they like to run it out a long way :-)

Euan

Jon Frisby · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Feb 2013 · Points: 270

Major thread necro:

I'm going through Dresden and while climbing on knots and rings sounds interesting, I was curious as to whether there is and well protected climbing or maybe bouldering in the area?

Jim Titt · · Germany · Joined Nov 2009 · Points: 490
Jon Frisby wrote:Major thread necro: I'm going through Dresden and while climbing on knots and rings sounds interesting, I was curious as to whether there is and well protected climbing or maybe bouldering in the area?
the sport climbing and bouldering in the area is is this guide;- geoquest-verlag.de/?q=node/143
Spencer BB · · Pasadena, CA · Joined Dec 2013 · Points: 23

Although I believe that he focuses more on the traditional climbs this elllocesaqui.wordpress.com/… might be a useful English language resource for the area.

Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

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