Canada, 2011 [2009], 6th revised edition, updated. 400 pp, topos, maps, b/w photos. New softcover.
The most complete guide to fixed anchor climbs in Bow Valley, Banff, Ghost River and Kananaskis Country Canada.
This 2011 updated sixth edition of Sport Climbs in the Canadian Rockies features dozens of new routes and is illustrated with more than 300 topos, maps and photos. It also updates information from the previous five editions. With more than 12,000 copies sold to date, Sports Climbs is the guide the climbing community reaches for when it heads to the hills.
Sport climbing is one of the most popular types of rock climbing in North America. It is gymnastic,safe and sociable,and it provides a natural progression for those who have learned the sport on climbing walls. In this new edition, the authors have added several new crags and many new climbs,totalling over 1,600 bolt-protected routes in the Bow Corridor from the Front Ranges west of Calgary to Canmore and from Banff to Lake Louise.
This sport-climbing guide complements the traditional climbing guide, Bow Valley Rock, an alpine climbing guide, Selected Alpine Climbs in the Canadian Rockies, and the scrambling guide, Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies.
Jon Jones started rock climbing on the gritstone edges of his native England at the age of 15. He moved to Calgary in 1967 and has been active in the local climbing scene ever since. A recently retired university geology instructor, he now spends his time rock climbing in the Rockies, the Okanagan and, when winter arrives, in Australia.
John Martin grew up in Calgary and has been climbing in the Rockies since 1963. He has been active in guidebook writing since 1985.
