Az Guidebook List

Please feel free to list any I have missed.

Just thought it may be helpful to have a list of all the Az guide books. I have been searching for them over the past couple weeks and I figured a list of them may help others. I am still looking to buy any AZ guide books as well, so if you have any please feel free to PM me.

Weekend Rock Arizona
Phoenix Rock II
Jacks Canyon Sport Climbing
Rock climbers guide to Sedona and Oak Creek Canyon
Sedona Rocks: A Climbers Guide
The Rock Jock's Guide to Queen Creek Canyon
Squeezing the Lemmon II
Isolation Canyon Climbing Guide
Rock Climbing Arizona (Falcon Guide)

Hendrixson - Thanks for the help.. I saw the list here on MP.. but I figured there has got to be quite a few more with all of the wilderness here in Az. At least I hope there is!

There's a paperback guide to The Pit by Robert Miller available at Flagstaff climbing.

Prescott Bouldering (Bill Cramer)
Granite Mountain (Fold out topo: Bill Cramer)
A Climber's Guide to Prescott, AZ (Mike Smith)

Toofast Topos: 50 Multipitch Climbs in Cochise Stronghold
(Geir Hundal)

All of Marty Karabin's Guides:
The Overlook
The McDowell's
Pinnacle Peak
Beardsley Boulder Pile
Camelback Mountain
Blue Ridge Reservoir
Lookout Mountain
The Pond
Devil's Canyon
South Mountain Bouldering
Crown King
(Maybe one I'm forgetting?)

If you're including OOP books, there's also Backcountry Climbing in Southern Arizona (by Bob Kerry), Tucson Select Sport Climbing and Bouldering Tucson (both by Tyler McMillan).
-Mackley

OOP books are kosher in my opinion. It would be nice if we could just create a living document that was accessible for all. I may look into that when I get some free time..

This is a great idea! Thanks for posting it.

Well said Jonas.

wow... that climb az site is awesome.. thanks man!

Jonas Salk wrote: climbaz.com Great site. Open source guides that are printable and easy to carry with you. Lots of AZ history too. I hope R.A. Hutchens knows how awesome he is for putting this site up. I'll assume he does.

Andy McQuillen wrote: Game changer

Greg Opland wrote: Care to elaborate on that statement? What game and what did it change? Been watching this thread with interest. Have an opinion, but would like to know where you're all headed with this.

My only intention was to share the awesome that is climbaz.com with people who obviously didn't know that it existed.

People came before us, they did all the awesome stuff we dream about. We can do it too!

It's nice to know what is going on, and to be informed by the folks who made/make it happen.

Thank you historians, developers, web site makers and guide book authors all.

I'm stoked on what you provided for us.

I took an initial pass at updating the list of guidebooks:

mountainproject.com/books/1…

Let me know if there are others to add. Additionally if anyone would like to write better descriptions I can add those as well. I would like to see the descriptions include whether the books are in-print and where they tend to be available.

I personally am a bit of a guidebook collector. I am missing "Prescott Bouldering", "Weekend Rock Arizona", and "Paradise Forks Rock Climbing", and possibly a few of the Karabin Guides but I have the rest.

Superstitions Select by Opland. Out of print

Superstitions Select has been added (with very little information):

mountainproject.com/books/1…

hendrixson - thanks for working on updating those lists. I certainly appreciate it. I am also a bit of a guide book hoarder. I've got about 10 of the arizona books, but I'd like to have them all.

I added one line description to the Supes Select.
Don't know what else you'd put in there.

Interesting that you have one of the "newer" books (at least from the scan).
Did you get that from me or someone else?

Thanks for the addition, Greg. I found all the images on Google. I personally don't own the guide.