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Teewinot from Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Teewinot from Jackson Hole, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.

"At both ends of the social spectrum
 there lies a leisure class."
-- heard at Camp 4



More climbers are actively using the Web for swapping stories and info, and there are a growing number of good websites having to do with climbing. So here's a catalog some of the best or most interesting sites that I've run across, in a form that I hope is reasonably usable. It's not intended to be exhaustive.

This list emphasizes North America, most specifically the Pacific Northwest, and traditional rather than sport climbing. (Although any trad' climbing bum will have done his share of sport climbing, likely belaying off the back bumper with a cold one close at hand.)

A lot gets little direct mention here--Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah--and only a couple of clubs and no associations, as worthy as they are (like the Access Fund). They're amply listed on other sites.

This page was thoroughly updated in August, 2007.

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    worldwide personal pages:
  1. Tuan provides a huge gallery of photographs from around the world at terragalleria.com.
    His original mountaineering page at terragalleria.com/mountain/info might still be the best climbing site on the Web, with rock and ice climbs in Yosemite, Colorado, Alaska, Canada, and the Alps.
  2. If Tuan's site isn't the best, then gdargaud.net/Climbing Guillaume Dargaud's may be.
  3. At climbingaround.net Jim Dockery has articles and photos of climbs in Europe, Canada, and the U.S.
  4. geocities.com/Yosemite/6260: based in Colorado, George Bell has climbs from western North America, plus other good stuff, notably his comprehensive guide to The Cirque of the Unclimbables, where the overview photo is stunning.
  5. bigwalls.net: John Middendorf's Big Wall Home Page has good info and stories, but, sadly, few photos.
  6. Cameron's Climbing Page has a dozen climbs (mainly West coast).
  7. lamountaineers.org/NAC/Welcome.htm:North American Classic Climbs, now hosted by the Los Alamos Mountaineers, has limited info on a few dozen classics.
  8. gravsports.com: Will Gadd is based in the Canadian Rockies. If you're going there, check his links page

    web portals and indexes:
  9. The superb and very active summitpost.org might well have what you're looking for anywhere in the world. Really! (Well, not really--some places shouldn't be advertised.) The upper-right-corner search box is probably the quickest way to find it.
  10. The excellent tradgirl.com is "rec.climbing's Home on the Net."
  11. dmoz.org/Recreation/Climbing might still be the best catalog of Web sites around...
  12. ...while dir.yahoo.com/Recreation/Outdoors/Climbing is right behind.
  13. climbing-up.com has links you may find nowhere else.
  14. mountainzone.com/climbing is a fine world-wide on-line magazine/portal.
  15. peakware.com: the World Mountain Encyclopedia is mostly by submission so the quality varies. It's a wildernet.com website.
  16. gorp.away.com/gorp/activity/climb.htm looks quite complete. It's mostly info for tyros, but has some nice climbing stories, etc.
  17. rockclimbing.com calls itself "the largest interactive rock climbing...site." It's route info is also by submission.
  18. rocklist.com tries to provide a world-wide online guidebook. It's by contribution, so there are lots of gaps and the quality varies.
  19. camp4.com offers "Climbing news, literature, photography, and trip reports."

    print magazines online:
  20. Two from the USA: climbing.com is Climbing Online, which finally has become pretty good; and rockandice.com, which is the fine Rock & Ice.
  21. One from Canada: gripped.com is Gripped.
  22. Two from Britain: climbmagazine.com which is Climb; and climber.co.uk which is, or will be, Climber.
  23. And outside.away.com/index.html is Outside Online

    three clubs:
  24. A short but good list of links from the Calgary Mountain Club, "An eclectic climbers organization steeped in history (among other things)."
  25. And more links from old.climbers.org, The Alpine Club of Canada's Toronto Section.
  26. alpinistas.org at the UCSD has a nice archive of stories.

    Pacific Northwest:
    Some of the best websites anywhere are here. Look at the first few.
    portals:
  27. mountaineers.org/nwmj is the beautiful and definitive North West Mountaineering Journal.
  28. CascadeClimbers.com is "the Pacific NW climbers' resource." It has the usual trip reports, weather info, etc., but also very active forums with over 44 topic areas and 13,000 submissions. It also hosts the separate uw.cascadeclimbers.com/forum UW Climbing Club Forum, another source for up-to-date info.
  29. pbase.com/nolock hosts John Scurlock's extraordinary galleries of North Cascades aerial photographs. See any good lines?
  30. Lowell Skoog has a comprehensive site with topos, weather forcasts, pics, and lots more for the Pacific NW, including, for example, "The Ptarmigan Traverse - Then and Now".
  31. mountaineers.org: Well, I have a bias against large organizations in the mountains, but it is nice to know what they're up to, if only to avoid them. Plus, they've got some useful stuff on their redone site, including a good links list.
    guides to Washington:
  32. climbingwashington.com is the absolutely first-rate site brought to you by Jeff Smoot, with feature articles, trip reports, news, descriptions and photos of classic climbs, links to other climbing websites and resources, and notably climbingwashington.com/routeinfo.
  33. summitpost.org's 374 posts for Washington do a great job of covering most of the state. You really should explore it.
  34. seanet.com/~mattp/Darr: Darrington rock climbing.
  35. Clint Cummins has scanned and html-ified his guide book Index Town Wall Rock Climbs. And we thank you.
  36. people.whitman.edu/~pogue/climbing tells us where to climb near Walla Walla, Wash.
  37. The Northwest Peakbaggers Asylum provides the Master List of Peaks in Washington and a 100 Peaks list for Oregon, too.
  38. climbingsource.com/LocalBeta/Washington/index.html has very little local beta, so far.
  39. And for the North Face of the North Peak of Mount Index, a personal favorite, take a look at what Jeff Smoot and Mike Stanton have to say.
    guides to Oregon:
  40. smithrock.com wants to be a "a complete Smith Rock climbing resource" and although it's not there yet, it is a nice site with a lot of good stuff.
    home pages, with trip reports, pics, and more:
    Backcountry skiers climb, too, and some of their climbs can be interesting in themselves. So see my skiing links page.
  41. Michael Stanton's mountainwerks.org/cma has a ton of well-illustrated trip reports on fine alpine climbs in the Cascades of Washington.
  42. Ade Miller's climbing site at ademiller.com has great pics of climbs in the North Cascades, western Canada, and Alaska.
  43. theronwelch.com gives us trip reports of climbs from around the world, but mostly the Pacific NW.
  44. alpinedave.com, aka Dave Burdick, provides climbs and some ski descents from around the West, mostly Washington. Great pics.
  45. members.tripod.com/Schryer has Cascade trip reports and a guide to the Marymoor Park rock.
  46. rhinoclimbs.com: stories from John Roper's 40 years of climbing in the Cascades.

    Western Canada:
  47. elaho.ca is the publisher of climbing guides for British Columbia.
  48. The Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia at bivouac.com touts itself as "generally accepted to be the most complete website for mountaineering in Canada. It also has good coverage of the USA." Well, it does have loads of info, but some might require joining, for a fee.
    The Bugs:
    In addition to these three links, a few of the sites under Squamish also have info on the Bugaboos.
  49. B.C. Parks provides thorough info on Bugaboo Provincial Park.
  50. bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/index.htm: B.C. government archives; and their Visual Records where a search for "bugaboo" yields nice results.
  51. bugaboorock.8m.com nicely covers and illustrates half-a-dozen peaks.
    Squamish:
  52. Matt's Climbing Page covers Squamish and more.
  53. squamishrockguides.com/info.htm provides info on the basics--where to stay, eat, and drink--plus a page of links.
  54. geocities.com/climbingbc provides info on single pitch climbs at Squamish, Skaha, and Kelowna; ditto multipitch climbs; and some alpine climbs from the coast range to the Rockies.
  55. tradgirl.com/areas/nonus/canada provides a fine intro to the area.
  56. You could also look at squamishclimbing.com, if their google maps work for you.

    California -- Tuolumne Meadows and Yosemite Valley:
    Many sites on this page talk about Yosemite--it's hard to avoid. And a couple might mostly deal with climbing there...
  57. ...but, supertopo.com says it's "the world's best resource for Yosemite rock climbing information" and it very likely is, 'tho you have to pay for most of it. In addition to Yosemite Valley, Tuolumne Meadows, and a bit on the High Sierra, it now covers Red Rocks, Nevada, and the Desert Towers of western Utah.
  58. mgordonphotography.com/sierra/sierra_new.htm provides a huge Sierra-oriented links list.

    Wyoming -- The Teton and Wind River Ranges:
    Why have I found so few sites for Wyoming? Are they too busy actually climbing?
  59. A pretty intro to the Wind River Range, Gannett Peak, and Cirque of the Towers from the Sublette County Tourism Board. Honest!
  60. summitpost.org provides an excellent, more climbing oriented, introduction to the Teton Range, Wind River Range, and the Cirque of the Towers
  61. cascadeclimbers.com has a nice trip report into the Cirque of the Towers.
  62. classic.mountainzone.com/climbing/99/misc/wolfshead is a trip report with pics.
  63. alpinistas.org/archives/1994/winds/intro.html: a multipage story of A Week in Wyoming's Wind River Range.
  64. pinedalewyoming.com/photogallery/home.htm has some nice pictures of the Winds.

    British Isles and Europe:
  65. ukclimbing.com has all the info, and a huge collection of member photos.
  66. dangeroussite.com is Dangerous Dave's home page, which includes his fine (mostly British) links list.
  67. climbing.ie/exped/eiger/eiger.html is a great page on an ascent of the North Face of the Eiger brought to you by Irish Climbing On-line.

    miscellaneous info:
  68. home.tiscalinet.de/ockier/climbing_dict.htm: Carl Ockier's multi-language Climbing Dictionary.
    He also supplies a very thorough Ratings Guide
  69. Peter's Climbing Page provides graphs of Accidents in North American Mountaineering,
    and an index to Jim Nelson & Peter Potterfield's book Selected Climbs in the Cascades.
  70. outdoorfunstore.com/climbing.asp: miscellaneous climbing info, but especially the fine page of Climbing Quotes

    lost in (cyber)space:
    These were last searched for in August 2007 (on a rainy Seattle day!) If you happen to know where any of these are, please let me know.
  71. inlandnwclimb.homestead.com: "A climbing guide to over 600 routes in Spokane and the surrounding Inland Northwest."
  72. The rather odd cands.net had a great page on Squire Creek Wall and still might, but I can't find it.
  73. crag.com was a great site about Smith Rock.
  74. squamishrock.com was an unpretentious site with the superb Squamish Area Climbing Guide and more links.
  75. pincher.homestead.com/sickhard.html had a nice little photo gallery of trad climbs.
  76. home.att.net/~preshos had nicely illustrated trip reports on climbs in The Enchantments, The Picket Range, Boston Basin, on Mount Shuksan, and at Darrington.
  77. chiefguide.com, the "Squamish Chief Online Rock Climber's Guide," had beta on 25 climbs, so far.
  78. Mikey's big bad climbing page delighted in the absurdity of it all, while managing to provide good information [on Squamish].
  79. way-wired.com, "Bringing the Mountain Modem to Jackson Hole, Wyoming," had info on 57 Teton climbs.


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