NC Climbing Guidebooks

Does anyone have any suggestions for good NC climbing guidebooks? Specifically Linville gorge and PIlot? 

I think the only one for Linville is still the old "Selected Climbs in North Carolina" book, MP is probably your best source. Pilot has it own PDF guidebook and it is covered in the Lineberry "Carolina Rocks" book.

There are great books for rumbling bald and moore's for both bouldering and trad climbing, some new books for Pisgah and High Country(not linville, the smaller crags up around Boone)
https://www.mountainproject.com/books/105873282

Nothing extremely good for Linville, I use a combination of Selected Climbs, MP, and the old Kelly guide (which is gold in my opinion, there is a copy to look at in Black Dome).  There is also a wealth of knowledge about routes out there, just gotta ask around.

Elizabeth Foster wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions for good NC climbing guidebooks? Specifically Linville gorge and PIlot? 

Linville Gorge:  the old Thomas Kelley guide spoken of above and Shull-Lambert "Selected Climbs in NC" are your best bets.  You could try to borrow these from the AAC library.

Thanks everyone! I appreciate it! 

I remember at one time seeing my old Thomas Kelley NC guidebooks were selling for $1,500 on ebay. I'll cut you a deal and hook you up for $1,250!!! Honestly, unless you just enjoy owning a guidebook (which I admit I love owning guidebooks to every area I've visited) there's not much point with mountainproject's smartphone app.

West side of linville gorge by nathan brown and mike grim is a good one
Curtis is right Thomas kelly guide is the kitties titties, sometimes used copies are on amazon for a reasonable price

jarthur wrote: I remember at one time seeing my old Thomas Kelley NC guidebooks were selling for $1,500 on ebay. I'll cut you a deal and hook you up for $1,250!!! Honestly, unless you just enjoy owning a guidebook (which I admit I love owning guidebooks to every area I've visited) there's not much point with mountainproject's smartphone app.

Dang, glad I got one for free!

I will totally sell my Thomas Kelly 2nd ed to anyone who wants it for $1,500

Grrrr, I was going through a divorce and all my stuff was in a storage warehouse by the Winooski river when Irene came through, flooded VT, and wiped out that storage warehouse. I was poking along the river searching for any of my stuff when I looked down and saw Doc (on the cover of Ed. 2 of Kelley's book), peering up through the sand on the riverbank. So that's what happened to that one, feel even worse now that I know it's a four figure buy.

As to usefulness, I was at the Whitesides pull off on 64 scoping things one day and there were two kids with the third edition, which had just come out, trying to figure out what was what. I told them that there were routes on every piece of rock they could see from there (N face W'sides, Timber Ridge, Rock Mt, Old Bald, Cow, Laurel, etc.) and not a single one was in that book. "Well what good is it then?" they wailed. Indeed.