Colorado, Pruett, 1994, 3rd edition, 1st printing. 255 pp, 31 maps, 56 b/w photos. Softcover. Fine.
If you collect books and guides to the ever growing subject of Colorado's wondrous fourteen thousand foot mountains, this is an important volume. Walter Borneman's guidebooks have been the go-to guidebook for the 14ers book since 1978. Being published in the decades of huge growth in interest in climbing high peaks, Colorado is rich with over half the 96 fourteeners in the USA. 55 (now 53) are in Colorado, and somehow Alaska has fewer, with 29. These numbers vary occasionally due to new surveys, the use of GPS, and changes in the definition of what a fourteener is.
This is considered to be the first true guide to Colorado's 55 14,000 foot peaks. A guide for the weekend mountaineer and backpacker who seeks the rewards and exhilaration of reaching 14,000 feet. The book features complete route descriptions, 31 maps, 56 photographs and colorful history and anecdotes of the fourteeners.
