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New Indian Creek Guidebook
Indian Creek climbers, rejoice! The second edition of the guidebook for Indian Creek will be available in April from Sharp End Books. From their website:
“The definitive guide to climbing in Indian Creek. No other book has done more to change the face of guidebooks. The first full-color guide in the US, Bloom’s masterpiece captured the flavor and aura of this breathtaking area through vivid photographs and poignant essays. The new edition boasts more than 100 additional routes and extra gear beta.”
Also, as an added bonus, if you preorder the book right now, you can download an ebook pdf which has all the same info. Sounds good to me.
Hopefully we’ll have a copy to review soon , and let you know whether it’s worth throwing down another $35 for this book.
There are of course already the haters that are sounding off, but blaming a guidebook for a world class area’s popularity is just asinine. Damn, I wish they hadn’t published that guidebook for Yosemite, it really ruined the place! In reality, if anything, this guidebook has shown people the incredible wealth of climbs outside the previously well known areas and has spread climber impact across many walls, versus having a few get fully abused. The Creek is only going to be more and more popular, and I’m thankful we have a guidebook to show us all the different places we can climb.
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What bums me about all the IC guidebook haters is they tend to fall into this argument that they’ve climbed there longer than other people or they’ve picked up more trash than other people or etc., etc. It kind of turns into this lame “not in my backyard” argument stuff even though those people are often from Boulder (guess it’s true that IC is the best crack climbing in Boulder, right?). I hate seeing people being irresponsible in the Creek, and do my best to educate people, but, it seems like blaming a guidebook for all of the problems is seriously amiss. I just don’t see how you could ever keep IC a secret – there’s a highway running through the middle of it and it has some of the most amazing climbing anywhere. I like the way the new guidebook makes it easier to visit obscure walls. When I first went there in 2000 there were so few walls that we knew about and consequently, that’s where we went. Now, I’m constantly checking out obscure walls and rarely visit Supercrack, Battle of the Bulge, etc.
I think the strangest thing is how much of an effect the “Season” can have on IC. Being from SoCal we can’t really go on weekends but on week long trips this year and last year we saw a big difference in crowds based on the week.
In 2008 we went the 4th week (22-29) of March and ran into tons of crowds. Perhaps this is a bit due to Utah/Colorado spring breaks? It was the worst on weekends and at the popular areas. This year during the 2nd week (7-15) of March we stayed away from Supercrack and Scarface and had the crag to ourselves most days. Hopefully the new guide book will help spread people out more. The weekend we left the number of cars at our campground had more than doubled… I guess the season was starting?