Maple Canyon guides are here!

The very first Wolverine Press Maple Canyon guides have arrived--swing on by and pick up your copy today at IME!

Also take into consideration that the comprehensive Maple guide, by Darren Knezek, will be out shortly... worth the wait from what I've seen of the two books.

I have heard that Darren is coming out with a guide for Maple, AF and Rock canyon and other South areas in the Wasatch for years... I would love to have a date that those guides are going to be done?

Darren posted a photo of the Maple book's cover on Facebook last week along with the caption "The End is Near...."

More specifically, he also said "They should be available May 1st."

Sunny-D wrote:I have heard that Darren is coming out with a guide for Maple, AF and Rock canyon and other South areas in the Wasatch for years... I would love to have a date that those guides are going to be done?

Brian, you hit it on the head...I have been hearing about these guide books for years. It will be nice to have the new ones when they come out...

Some more hear say to add... I called Darren about this about two weeks ago when I found out the Wolverine book was coming out, and he told me his was to follow about month later. So, let's plan on sometime this summer.

I agree that Darren's looks more exhaustive, etc., but on the other hand, I also really love all my other Wolverine guidebooks...

Just saw this about Darren's guidebook: MapleCanyonClimbing.com

Be sure to check out the An Endorsement article.

Is there an Ipod, or better yet, Android app for either book?

Yes! The Wolverine Publishing book will be available in ebook format. Not exactly an "app", but we're really pleased with how it came out -- it looks amazing on the ipad -- and it gives you a portable guidebook on your phone. The Maple Canyon Rock Climbs ebook runs on smartphone (iphone, android, windows), ipad, other tablets (as long as they can read an ebook, as well as Kindle and Nook (it is in color, so will look better on the color versions of those devices), although it works in black and white too.

Ebook versions will go on sale later this week. Price is $9.99. Links to buy the ebook will be posted here

wolverinepublishing.com/map…

Also check out the Maple Canyon Rock Climbs Facebook page for info updates and corrections on the Wolverine Publishing guide

facebook.com/MapleCanyonRoc…

Any confirmation of the rumors of an updated AF and/or Rock Canyon guide?

As far as I know, Mike, Darren decided to focus on Maple for the time being--that is, this guidebook will only cover Maple and other venues in the Sanpete Valley.

A lot of jokes have been made about how long this guide has taken to produce (most in good fun, like Brian in SLC above), but in reality it's been coming along at a pretty good pace considering how meticulous Darren has been about researching and documenting the hundreds of new routes that have gone in since he started the book (a good number of which have been his own new routes).

Darren has invested thousands of dollars of his personal capital into developing Maple Canyon, not to mention thousands of man-hours spent developing routes and improving trails, crag bases, and etc, and keeping climbers in the good graces of the Forest Service. He's one of the original Maple Canyon locals, and I'll say openly that I think it's shameful that his guide has been knowingly undercut by folks with comparatively little personal investment in the area.

Long story short, the Knezek guide will be worth the years we've all waited. As a Maple local I can tell you you'll be glad for the accuracy, personality, and the hundreds (600+!!) of routes.

-Matt Selman
Spring City, Utah

I'm confused, David... I think you may have missed the point, which a) had nothing to do with ebooks; and b) did not identify "locals" by geographic proximity to an area but by personal investment therein.

David Sahalie wrote: so do the dirtbags that spend the summer at maple have the most right to write a guidebook?

^^^^You sir are an asshat^^^^^^

If you think Darren "dirtbags" in Maple, the hole in the side of your neck is too big for you to be talking shit out of. Keep you're specualation to areas and people you actually know, not just visited or bumped into once or twice.

BScallout wrote:^^^^You sir are an asshat^^^^^^ If you think Darren "dirtbags" in Maple, the hole in the side of your neck is too big for you to be talking shit out of. Keep you're specualation to areas and people you actually know, not just visited or bumped into once or twice.

David Sahalie, again you leave me confused. How you can consider "the dirtbags that spend the summer at maple" (your own words) "personally invested" in Maple Canyon climbing is beyond me. If your idea of personal investment is staying at the campground for a while, working some routes, possibly even putting in two or three a summer, then you have a lot to learn from the likes of Darren, who has put in a couple of decades of sweat and cash into Maple so "the dirtbags that spend the summer" there can have something to climb, and so can the rest of us who are there regularly all year round. If you keep making arguments about your imagined "local-ism" and faulty understanding of "investment," I'll keep reading them. But goddamn, man, let's see some reasoning in there too.

Anyhow, my point was never to bandy back and forth about the above. My point is simply that Darren Knezek has produced a superior guide to Maple climbing.

Wait! So all that is needed to produce the long awaited quality guides is to "shoot something across the bow?" LOL

Oh that it were THAT simple!

boys, boys, boys, give it a rest, jeez.
We are also looking forward to Darren's guide and will post up as soon as we get it.

Now go climbing.

What do you mean, apross, I AM climbing right now brah. Just reading my ebook on my iphone and trolling MP while I hang on my sick proj. It's the future!

Speaking of which: Maple Canyon Rock Climbs ebook version is now on Amazon.

amazon.com/dp/B007OZGSO6

iTunes and Barnes and Noble ebook versions coming soon. You can use whichever portal you prefer, the downloads should work on any device capable of reading an ebook (unless the device is store/platform specific like Kindle or Nook). iTunes allows us to sell the biggest file ... if you don't mind a space hog, the iTunes version will give you the highest resolution on an ipad. It looks amazing on the iPad 3.