Yosemite National Park Guidebooks

FEATURED: Yosemite Bouldering

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• Contains detailed descriptions of more than 1,300 boulder problems, including over 400 new problems and 7 new bouldering areas
• Color coded entries and GPS coordinates help you choose and find your problems
• Full-color 1st edition features multiple personal essays and breathtaking climbing photos

Yosemite Valley Bouldering

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Problems: 600
Difficulty: VB-V13
Pages: 160 pages
Edition: 1st Edition, May 2007

Tuolumne Meadows Bouldering second edition

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From the Flash Press site: "Tuolumne Meadows Bouldering, second edition is the bouldering guide to Tuolumne Meadows. As a 19 year veteran of Tuolumne Charlie knows the ins and outs of the Meadows and with this book, so can you.

Released in 2020, the 372 page, full color Tuolumne Meadows Bouldering guidebook covers over 1,200 boulder problems at 32 different areas in Yosemite's High Country. Tuolumne Meadows offers some of the best summertime bouldering in the U.S.. This book is the essential guide for every boulder looking to enjoy perfect rock in a great setting with problems at every grade and angle from 5.6 to V13. Don't miss it! "

Tuolumne Bouldering

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From the publisher's website: "Tuolumne Bouldering showcases 20 of this great destination’s best bouldering areas. It has more than 275 of the best boulder problems in one of the most pristine alpine rock playgrounds on Earth. Tuolumne has a little something for everyone---steep faces, golden diorite knob pinches, splitter crack jams, gnarly old school mantels and a little bit of every other style of bouldering challenge. Located above 8000 feet in the “high country” Tuolumne Meadows is covered in snow every winter and the only road in is closed, but when summer is on the horizon and the snow is melting, the road will open just in time for you to escape the heat and crowds of the popular, lower elevation areas nearby such as Bishop and Yosemite Valley. The classic boulder problems that abound have rich histories and traditions. You can climb in the footsteps of legends like Bachar, Kauk and Yabo. Marvel in the Sierra geology, inhale the fresh mountain air, cherish the clear sky by day, gaze at the star-filled skies at night and live life the way it was meant to be lived—positive and free, in Tuolumne. "

FEATURED: Tuolumne Meadows Climbing: A Comprehensive Guide

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Over a decade in the making, this is the first new rock climbing guidebook in 15 years to this magnificent alpine region of Yosemite National Park. A comprehensive guidebook written from scratch to the roped rock climbs in Tuolumne Meadows, consisting of formations reachable off Highway 120, between Crane Flat in the west and Lee Vining in the east. Over 1,700 routes are catalogued in detail across over 170 formations, with approach and parking directions, route descriptions and grades, photo overlays, maps and topos, and more.

Tuolumne Free Climbs: 2nd Edition (2009)

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From the publisher's website: "Tuolumne Free Climb: 2nd Editions includes twice as many routes as the first edition: over 275 of the best routes in Tuolumne Meadows from 14-pitch trad climbs to one-pitch sport routes."

Rock Climbing Tuolumne Meadows: 4th Edition (2006)

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Quoted from the back cover:

"Rock Climbing Tuolumne Meadows leads the way to more than 1,000 traditional and sport routes and classic bouldering problems of all degrees of difficulty. Expert climbers Don Reid and Chris Falkenstein share their knowledge of this high-country area, with excellent face and crack climbs on granite domes plus alpine ascents on the surrounding high peaks."

Yosemite Climbing Guide App (free - out of app stores)

App creator Chad Lawver announced in the forum thread Free! Yosemite Guidebook App that his Yosemite Climbing Guide App (for Apple and Android devices) is now free.

http://www.mountainproject.com/v/free-yosemite-guidebook-app/112166147/

Yosemite Climbs: Free Climbs

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Yosemite Climbs: Free Climbs Paperback – 1994
by Don Reid (Author), John Dill (Introduction)
Paperback: 413 pages
Publisher: Chockstone Press; 1st edition (1994)

Out of print but widely available on Amazon.

Rock Climbing Yosemite's Select

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Rock Climbing Yosemite's Select 2nd Edition by Don Reid
Series: Regional Rock Climbing Series
Paperback: 144 pages
Publisher: FalconGuides; 2nd edition (May 1, 1998)

Out of print, but still widely available on the Amazon page linked.

Yosemite Valley chapter of A Climber’s Guide to the High Sierra (free online guide)

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A Climber’s Guide to the High Sierra (1954), edited by Hervey H. Voge. Authors: Richard M. Leonard and David R. Brower (1940), and William W. Dunmire (1953).

Yosemite Valley Sport Climbs and Top Ropes

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Yosemite Sport Climbs and Top Ropes
Authors: Chris McNamara and Chris Van Leuven
Routes: 200 (click to see the complete route list)
Difficulty: 5.1-5.12a
Pages: 120 pages
Edition: 1st Edition, July 2010

The Road to The Nose

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The Road to The Nose
Routes: 14+ (click to see the complete route list)
Difficulty: 9-5.10d and C1-C2
Pages: 60 color pages
Format: downloadable eBook (PDF)
Author: Chris McNamara

Yosemite Big Walls - 3rd Edition

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Yosemite Big Walls - 3rd Edition
Authors: Chris McNamara and Chris Van Leuven
Routes: 64 (click to see the complete route list)
Difficulty: C1-A5
Pages: 208 pages
Edition: 3rd edition, May 2011

Yosemite Bigwalls

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Roger Putnam's and Erik Sloan's Yosemite Bigwalls is sold in print and/or digital formats.

FEATURED: Rock Climbing Yosemite Valley (2020)

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2020 Rock Climbing Yosemite Valley: 750 Best Free Routes + (PDF) Ebook Authors are Marek Jakubowski and Erik Sloan.

Yosemite Topropes

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Now you too can bring your kids to the rocks. Floyd takes a unique approach to climbing books, using interesting little icons to represent information from the slope of the climbs to whether or not to bring your children along. An interesting book, though a little bit too small for a climbing region (Yosemite) containing thousands of routes.

Southern Yosemite Rock Climbs

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Currently out of print. The buy link goes to Amazon. From the seller's page there:

"Southern Yosemite Rock Climbs is a comprehensive guide to the rock climbing in the uncrowded southern boundary region of Yosemite National Park. These areas include: Mount Starr King Area, Wawona, Fresno Dome (Wamello) Area, The Balls, Mammoth Pool, and Shuteye Ridge. Originally published in 1988, and out of print for several years, this guidebook chronicles 20 years of Southern Yosemite climbing from the early 70s exploration by Royal Robbins and Fred Beckey through the late 80s sport climbing era. This reprint of the original 1988 edition contains first-hand descriptions of the climbs as told by the original ascentionists. In the nearly 20 years since the publication of the Southern Yosemite guide, new approaches have appeared, new routes have been found and climbed, and a new generation of climbers have discovered the adventure of Southern Yosemite."

Off the Wall: Death in Yosemite

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Not a climbing book per se, but full of lovely climbing legends, lore and gore, including some firsthand stories, from a coauthor that did a stint as a ranger in the Valley.

Rock Climbing Yosemite's Select

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A fairly good compilation about Yosemite's "favorite" climbs. Unfortunately, this also usually means that you'll wait in line on most of the lower difficulty climbs. The information in the book is concise and accurate, though often approach information is a little cryptic.