2008. 225 pages, black and white photos and maps. This book covers bouldering in the Telluride and West End areas of Southwest Colorado and is divided into two corresponding geographical sections. The Telluride section includes bouldering areas located between the East End of Telluride and Norwood. The West End section covers the massive land area of the western parts of San Miguel and Montrose Counties. This section includes information on the bouldering areas near the towns of Norwood and Naturita, as well as detailing the bouldering of Big Gypsum Valley, Slick Rock, Paradox Valley, and the Dolores River Canyon.Full guides are given for well known areas like the as well as several lesser known areas including the Powerbox Boulder, The Cove, the Riverview and Sanborn Park Boulders, the Meadow Boulders, Lost World, the Ozone Layer, the Dead Log Boulders, Bitter Edge, and The Garden. This book also covers in full detail recently discovered areas like the Shotgun Boulders, Gypsum Gap, Mexico Mines (16Z), the Coke Oven Boulders, and Sewemup Mesa. Another three dozen undeveloped areas are profi led in brief as a means of enticing climbers to get out and develop them. -Problems are named and rated with the V-scale-Many new areas are recorded for the first time-Covers popular areas in the San Miguel, Montrose and Dolores Counties-Free updates available online In total, this book includes detailed information for over 600 problems!The extensiveness of the area covered in this book makes it a valuable resource for climbers from all over Southwest Colorado and Southeast Utah. Major towns like Durango, Cortez, Monticello, Moab and Grand Junction are all within an hour’s drive of at least some of the bouldering spots covered in this book. The West End of Southwest Colorado is littered with thousands of sandstone blocks and is perhaps the greatest concentration of undeveloped bouldering left in Colorado. As is common with desert sandstone, only about ten to twenty percent of the boulders are climbable. However, when there are literally thousands of boulders, that still leaves a whole lot of worthwhile, unclimbed blocks!
