British Columbia Guidebooks

East Kootenay Rock

Vancouver Island Select Climbers' Guide

Updated yearly and available at fine sporting stores in Victoria.

qathet Bouldering Guide

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The best guide to bouldering in the qathet Regional District. This Google Doc is continually being updated with the latest boulder problems.

Greater Victoria Bouldering

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A guide book that covers several places in the greater Victoria area south of Malahat.

FEATURED: West Kootenay Bouldering

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A modern comprehensive guide to local bouldering.

FEATURED: West Kootenay Rock Guide

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Although massively out of date it remains the best printed guide to the area.

Saltspring Rockclimbs

Saltspring Island is one of the most beautiful places on earth and no visit would be complete without your climbing gear. This is the first guide to rock climbs on Saltspring. From beginner 5.6 routes to 5.12, sport to multi-pitch trad, bouldering on the ocean to bouldering deep in the rain forest, there is something for every climber.

Salt Spring Rock Climbs

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Published in 2017 by one of the primary developers, the guidebook covers many of the main areas but the area is being developed a lot currently and there are many climbs undocumented in this guide.

Salt Spring Rock Climbs

Published in 2017 by one of the primary developers, the guidebook covers many of the main areas but the area is being developed a lot currently and there are many climbs undocumented in this guide.

Salt Spring Rock Climbs

Published in 2017 by one of the primary developers, the guidebook covers many of the main areas but the area is being developed a lot currently and there are many climbs undocumented in this guide.

2021 Vancouver Island South Select Climber's Guide

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Vancouver Island south guidebook. Small, paper book, ~30 pages.

11,000ers of the Canadian Rockies

From the cover blurb: "This new edition of The 11,000ers of the Canadian Rockies thoroughly updates route and access information, particularly taking into account the warming trends and glacier retreat that are significantly reshaping the landscape through which mountaineers travel. For those seeking fresh challenges or high peaks to bag, this revision introduces four more mountains on the threshold of 11,000 feet, bringing the potential total to 58 that reach the magic mark.

"Each entry provides a vivid description of the peak, an extensive history of early and subsequent ascents (and ski descents) and a detailed description of moderate to intermediate routes, including access and approach information. The text is liberally illustrated in full color and features dozens of route and climbing photos and detailed area maps."

South island climbing guide

south island climbing guide. available occasionally can be found at MEC VPO and from private sellers.

Crest Creek Rock Climbs

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Crest Creek Rock Climbs is a guidebook to around 250 free and 50 aid climbs at Crest Creek Crags, Strathcona Provincial Park, BC.

This hotly anticipated guidebook to one of Vancouver Island's best crag climbing areas is informative, visually stunning, seasoned with sardonic humour and features side-bars, memoirs & artwork from key local contributors.

The Heathens and Wild Isle have collaborated to craft an entertaining guide that introduces us to the unique characters who have made Crest Creek a special place to climb and the routes that have drawn Island climbers and global visitors for some 30 years.

Squamish Bouldering - 3rd edition

There is an extensive chapter about the boulders in Pemberton called Green River Bastion. The latest (4th edition) completely dropped any mention of this area, you will only find it in the 3rd edition which is out of print.

Visitor Center Pamphlet

The Tumbler Ridge visitor center has a pamphlet describing the Foehn Wall, Boulder Gardens, Shipwreck, and Chetwynd areas. Grab the Nesbitt's Knee Falls pamphlet for directions to Foehn Wall.

Kelowna Rock Climbing

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This is the Kelowna guidebook for sport and trad ( and a tiny bit of bouldering) that has beta on 426 routes (32 problems) in 7 climbing areas. Buy it at Mosai Books, Gneiss or Beyond the Crux climbing gyms.

FEATURED: Skaha Climbing

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Published in 2018, this is the newest Skaha guidebook.

FEATURED: Skaha Rockclimbs: A User's Manual

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Published in 2013, this is your essential reference for Skaha.

Climbers Guide to Hassler Crag

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This guide was originally produced by Justin Turnbull. Justin and a number of other Fort St. John climbers including Jory Earl, Greg Monahan and Jay Watt are credited with developing this crag.

Comox Valley Climbs

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A sub-100 pages guidebook for the Comox Lake and the surrounding area. Includes drawn route diagrams, maps, and labelled photos.

Rogers Pass: Uptracks, Bootpacks & Bushwhacks

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Backcountry Skiing Rogers Pass.

Quadra Island Rock Climbs

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The latest addition to the west coast climbing scene the granitic outcrops and sea cliffs on Quadra Island offer some excellent climbing in one of the most scenic settings in the world. Snow-capped mountains line the horizon both east with the shimmering blue water of the Salish Sea and the emerald green rainforest completing the scene.

Quadra Island Rock Climbs describes over 200 climbing routes at Chinese Mountains, Morte Lake and on Breton Island. Access maps, photo topos and detailed route descriptions provide all the information needed to explore the crags of this island jewel.

Island Alpine Select

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The Bugaboos - One of the World's Great Alpine Rockclimbing Centres

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One of two Bugaboos guide books published in 2003.

Bugaboo Rock: A Climbing Guide, 2nd Edition

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One of two Bugaboos guide books published in 2003.

Roped Up in the North Okanagan

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The most recent and complete guidebook for climbing in the Vernon area. Roped Up in the North Okanagan covers all routes in the Cougar Canyon and Ellison climbing areas, as well as Aberdeen Columns.

qathet Bouldering Guide

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The best guide to bouldering in the qathet Regional District. This Google Doc is continually being updated with the latest boulder problems.

Powell River Rocks

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Comprehensive guide to climbing in the Powell River area. Includes 6 cragging areas, 3 big wall areas and 4 popular mountain routes in the Eldred Valley. Descriptions for 386 routes, over 200 pages with colour photos and topos.

Squamish Bouldering Guidebook

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Written by original guidebook author, Peter Michaux, and KAYA co-founder and Squamish developer, Marc Bourguignon, this guide features nearly 4,000 boulder problems! With detailed trail mapping, offline GPS, topo lines, and thousands of community uploaded beta videos, this KAYA PRO guidebook is here to help you find the boulder and the beta!

Let's Rock: Washington

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All the classic main crags in Washington and a bunch of newly developed/discovered areas - the North Bend Exits and Keechelus, Cle Elum, Yelm, Kitsap, Vantage, Tieton, Mazama, and Banks Lake. Also, neighboring crags with similar driving distances such as Squamish, Oregon and Idaho. Plus, some bonus chapters covering the best of Utah, Nevada, California, South Dakota and Kentucky. The guidebook features - GPS coordinates. - Detailed route beta. - Easy to read maps. - Clear images from the start of each route. - Camping and approach information. Everything for those new to the sport or looking for moderate climbs 5.0 to 5.10d

Squamish Sport Climbs

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This new guide is Volume 2 of The Climbers Guide to Squamish, and the first edition of Squamish Sport Climbs. The areas covered extend from Murrin Park to Whistler, some 800-plus sport climbs from single pitch to 10 pitches long, and from short valley crags up into the alpine. 176 pages.

Squamish Rock Climbs

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This extensive guidebook is the complete reference to Squamish climbing, portraying over 2,000 routes across 576 pages with more than 700 photos, maps, and topo drawings. Squamish Rockclimbs extends from Murrin to the Chief to the Smoke Bluffs, and includes the alpine peaks of Sky Pilot and the sea cliffs of Howe Sound. A 76 page history includes guest stories, photo galleries, and a 14,000 word story about the 100-year evolution of climbing at Squamish. This beautiful guidebook is commercial-free, contains no advertising, and was developed and manufactured entirely in Canada.

Squamish Select

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The full-colour, third edition of Squamish Select features over 1,500 routes and won the best guidebook category at the 2012 Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival. It provides extensive coverage of Murrin Park, Shannon Falls, the Malamute, the Chief, Slhanay (the Squaw), Smoke Bluffs, Cheakamus Canyon and many other minor areas. There’s enough climbing in this book to keep you busy for years!

Whistler Rock Climbs

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Covers the crags from just north of Squamish to north of Whistler with McLane's usual excellent quality.

Alpine Select: Climbs in Southwest British Columbia & Northern Washington

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As the title lays out, this is a book of select alpine climbs mainly in BC, but also a few in Washington. The book is interesting for being divided into a section covering all of the approaches and another covering all of the climbs. McLane writes to a high standard and this book is no exception.

There are some fairly accessible day climbs in here as well as some monsters. Would you believe that there's a 37 pitch rock route only a few hours from Vancouver?

Scrambles in Southwest British Columbia

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A well put together guide to scrambling routes on many BC peaks.

Central BC Rock

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Now a little out-of-date, but still the essential reference for the BC interior areas such as Yak Peak, Kelowna, and all the smaller crags that deserve attention but don't quite have the same draw as Skaha.

Rock N Road

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Rock N Road: An Atlas of North American Climbing Areas, is a comprehensive listing of every chunk of protruding stone on the continent. This is not a typical guidebook: there are no topos or route descriptions and only a few photos. Instead, the atlas provides a paragraph or two on each destination, with quality ratings, stats on number of climbs, and a list of the best routes. This is an essential reference item for those in search of new or less-documented crags.