Climber's Guide to the Olympic Mountains

By Olympic Mountain Rescue

Book Overview

Key to exploring these challenging peaks is this classic climber's guide to the Olympics. Here are detailed route descriptions for the hard basalt lava peaks of Constance and The Brothers, the high-angle faces of The Needles and Sawtooth Ridge, the hard sandstone and vast glaciers of Mt. Olympus, and hundreds of other mountains large and small. The text also provides general information on the mountains and all access routes, plus winter travel information, ski and snowshoe routes, and high alpine traverses.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898861543
• ISBN13: 9780898861549
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Mountaineers Books
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.8" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

This book opened up the Olympics for me.

In the early 1970s, I began to explore the Olympic Mountains. I was fascinated with exploring the hard to reach nooks and crannies of the high country. I wanted to find ways to get to the off trail, enticing high ridges and huge high altitude open spaces I found on contour maps of the time. Then this book landed in my lap and I suddenly had reliable routes to every interesting spot in the Olympics. You see, I discovered that all I had to do to find routes into seldom visited cirques and traverses was to find the name of a peak near the area of interest and plot the access route described - rarely climbing a peak, but always finding a good route to the surrounding high country. The book never failed me, and I have a collection of rarely traveled, beautiful high trips in my memory and photo albums - and in my future. For those of us who love mountaineering the Olympics, this is a valuable "back door" guide to the whole range.