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Best guide book for acadia national park

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Brasky · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jul 2012 · Points: 0

What's the best book for Acadia? I have the rock climbing new England book but its beat.

jim.dangle · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jul 2011 · Points: 5,882

There is an out of print of guide by Jeff Butterfield that you can sometimes find on the used market. The guidebook is a little old but generally pretty good. For the main climbs on the Precipice, you can get by with the info listed on this site. Otter Cliffs is a little trickier but is usually so crowded that you can ask someone to supplement the info on this site. Some of the smaller, less visited cliffs are trickier.

Otherwise Alpenglow and Cadillac Mountain Sports (both located Bar Harbor) can give good advice and may have a copy of the guidebook available for to peruse/photograph.

Jim

Eric Engberg · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Apr 2009 · Points: 0

The best is Jeff Butterfield's - but it is out of print. Some of the climbing shops in Bar Harbor might have a desk copy.

Brasky · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jul 2012 · Points: 0

Thanks guys

Caleb Cerling · · Boulder, CO · Joined Mar 2010 · Points: 55

The Rakkup App is pretty solid. The app works on iphone or android and you can either rent the guidebook for 2 months for 8 bucks or buy it for 16. I found it to be pretty good when I was there and the descriptions/pictures/diagrams all seemed to be accurate. It was also convenient not have to buy a guidebook for a place I knew I probably wasn't going to be going very frequently.

Kevin Heckeler · · Las Vegas, NV · Joined Jul 2010 · Points: 1,616

There was a scanned PDF going around of the [old] Butterfield book. Once it went out of print it was becoming impossible to find. If you ask it may still be available.

I heard they were expecting to have a new guide released (by now?).

Brasky · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jul 2012 · Points: 0

I would be really interested in the Grant Simmons guide. I met him while I was working at a gear shop in New Paltz him and his partner gave a talk about big wall climbing in south america.

Nate Solnit · · Bath, NH · Joined May 2013 · Points: 0

+1 on the Grant Simmons app. I don't like using my phone, but it's the best source of up to date route info, especially for precipice. For otter cliffs mountain project is perfectly adequate.

Grant Simmons · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Dec 2013 · Points: 115

I´m glad to hear that folks have been happy with the Rakkup app. I think that it´s a great way to go if you are just swinging through the island for a couple of days (though, admittedly, I am a bit biased...). The app will be updated this spring to include the island´s smaller crags and many outlying climbs.

The book itself is currently in the printing phase and distribution should begin in mid-April. I have taken advantage of this lull and am currently off climbing the aforementioned South American big walls. I return Stateside mid-March to resume working on the project. Please let me know if you have any questions (but please be patient because my internet use is extremely infrequent these days).

See ya´ll on the island!

Kristen Fiore · · Burlington, VT · Joined Sep 2014 · Points: 3,383

I somehow ended up with this pocket guide and if you PM me I will mail it to you for free. I have no interest in owning it and would love for someone to actually use it rather than it end up in a recycling bin...

amazon.com/Rock-Climbing-Ac…

Grant Simmons · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Dec 2013 · Points: 115

I'm very excited to announce that the new guidebook is now available. Find it in your local New England climbing shop, or at rockclimbsofacadia.com.

Kevin Heckeler · · Las Vegas, NV · Joined Jul 2010 · Points: 1,616
Grant Simmons wrote:I'm very excited to announce that the new guidebook is now available. Find it in your local New England climbing shop, or at rockclimbsofacadia.com.
Thanks Grant!
Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

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