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Guide books for red river gorge

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Dmcelderryii Mcelderry II · · Little Rock, AR · Joined Oct 2016 · Points: 0

I would like to buy a good book for the the red river gorge.    What do y’all recommend ?  Thanks

Matt Thomsen · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jun 2014 · Points: 263

Sport climb or trad climbing. Ray Ellington’s books are the best for trad and sport, but you will have to buy like 3 books to get it fully covered. If you are going to mostly sport climb, but it still has a lot of trad, the new book by Brendon Leader is really good. It has a lot of the Miller Fork climbs that were not in the old book. If you only want to buy one book, I would and did get the Leader comprehensive sport book. Also, a much smaller book to carry around.

Sam W · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Nov 2019 · Points: 0
D C wrote: I’m local to Kentucky.  Ellington‘s books are best, without doubt.  You easily could get by for a year or so on the South book alone for sport.   If you’re here for a couple weeks of trad, the North book is all you need.  Miller Fork is the third book, which is great but maybe not where you’d spend a full week if that’s all you had.  The information in Ellington’s books also is on www.redriverclimbing.com, which is far more comprehensive than MP.  I believe he has a free app now too.

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Do you prefer Ellington's books to Brenden Leader's new book?

Mike Byrnes · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Nov 2016 · Points: 5

The current best book for the Red is probably Brenden’s new “The Red” comprehensive book which sells for $35. Different than “Best of the Red”, which is a select crags book of the better half of the sport. The new comprehensive book has all of the trad and sport of the entire North gorge and the entire South with a few new crags scattered throughout Miller and the Pmrp. Maybe 4 or 5 new crags and a couple hundred new sport climbs. Easily the most amount of information for the money 

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