The Gunks Guidebooks

FEATURED: GunksApp: Nears Routes

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For mobile devices, get the Gunks App
Both iPhone and Android versions are available.

FEATURED: The Climber's Guide to the Shawangunks: The Near Trapps and Millbrook

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A new comprehensive edition to the Near Trapps and Millbrook. Bonus material includes: detailed history section, new descriptions, new ratings, new variations, link-ups, rappel stations, and even new routes!

ISBN: 0-9646949-2-1

Shawangunk Rock Climbs: The Near Trapps and Millbrook

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Dick Williams' 1991 guide to The Near Trapps and Millbrook; part of his three-volume Gunks guidebook set from the American Alpine Club Press. Contains route descriptions, route photos, line drawings showing the start of the routes, quality ratings, and protection grades. The information is a bit dated.

Williams is working on a new Near Trapps guide, scheduled to be published in September, 2008.

FEATURED: GunksApp: Trapps Routes

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FEATURED: The Climber's Guide to the Shawangunks: The Trapps

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A new comprehensive edition of Williams' Trapps guidebook. Includes detailed route descriptions, photos of the routes, drawings showing access trails, quality ratings and protection grades.

Bonus material includes: detailed history section, geology, new descriptions, new ratings, new variations, link-ups, rappel stations, and new routes.

The definitive guide to The Trapps; referred to by Gunks locals as the "Grey Dick".

FEATURED: GunksApp: Peterskill Bouldering

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FEATURED: Climber's Guide to the Shawangunks: The Near Trapps and Millbrook

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A new comprehensive edition to the Near Trapps and Millbrook. Bonus material includes: detailed history section, new descriptions, new ratings, new variations, link-ups, rappel stations, and even new routes!

ISBN: 0-9646949-2-1

FEATURED: GunksApp

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For mobile devices, get the Gunks App
Both iPhone and Android versions are available.

Guides to the Trapps, Nears, Trapps Bouldering, Nears Bouldering and Peterskill Bouldering are all available.

FEATURED: A Rock Climber's Guide to the Peter's Kill Climbing Area

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In 2015, Mike Rawdon and Marty Molitoris published a new guidebook -- find it at Rock & Snow or The Inner Wall.

Mobile version through GunksApp: http://gunksapps.com/peters_kill_routes.html

Peter's Kill Climbing Guide

Guide to climbing (lead and top-roping) at Peter's Kill. Should be available at Rock and Snow in New Paltz.

Please note that there is no information on bouldering in this slim guidebook.

FEATURED: Shawangunks Rock Climbs: Sky Top

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Dick Williams' 1991 guide to Sky Top; part of his three-volume Gunks guidebook set from the American Alpine Club Press.

Much of the introductory information is out of date, but the climbing information is still accurate. Contains route descriptions, route photos, line drawings showing the start of the routes, quality ratings, and protection grades. The route descriptions are more detailed than those found in Swain's guide.

Admin's Note: There is now limited climbing permitted at Sky Top. Please refer to the main Sky Top page for more details.

FEATURED: GunksApps

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The Gunks Apps are a phone app available for Android and IOS.
You can purchase separate licenses for content to Trapps Routes, Nears Routes, Trapps Bouldering, Nears Bouldering, and Peterskill Bouldering ... and areas across the country.

Each guidebook includes route details, a tick list, filtering, and GPS/compass navigation.
Each route has a high-res base photo, high-res aerial topo and/or maps, and pitch-by-pitch description including descent info.
Search the list by grade, protection, ticked status, or stars.
Unlike print books, the apps are kept up-to-date with new climbs, photos, closures, and condition information.

Bouldering in the Shawangunks

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A complete bouldering guide

The Gunks Guide, Third Edition

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Swain's all-inclusive guide to The Trapps, Near Trapps, Sky Top, and Millbrook. Route descriptions, photos, quality ratings, and protection ratings. Not as detailed as Williams' guides, but has everything in one volume.

Be aware that the Swain guide, especially, is regularly inaccurate in its route descriptions. Visitors, and even locals, who attempt to navigate via this guide frequently "get Swained". That said, it's extremely convenient to have all the routes for ALL the Gunks areas in a single volume; it's up to the climber as to what they want to carry.

An Ice Climber's Guide to Southern New England and Eastern New York

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This guidebook covers 200 ice climbing areas in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, southern Maine, southern New Hampshire, southern Vermont and eastern New York.