A Climber's Guide to Joshua Tree National Monument by John Wolfe (1970) Hardcover

A Climber's Guide to Joshua Tree National Monument by John Wolfe (1970) HardcoverThe first published guidebook to J Tree. The introduction notes "piton placement may be difficult" due to flared and bottoming out cracks, and suggests "nuts may be useful at times, mostly in belay anchors". Cams were yet to be invented. Good times, good times. Uses the NCCS grading system (F grades), which briefly competed with the YDS in the 1960s and 1970s, before eventually fading into obscurity. There is a useful conversion chart in the front of

published originally in English or in English translation

A wildly amateurish and crude guide

This thick pamphlet was excepted from Ortenburger's more comprehensive Teton Range guide

when their rope snapped

Muir Valley

The Swallow by W

It’s in fair condition

Very clean

An almost-complete history of mountaineering on the 8

Cover Photo: Todd Skinner at the Buttermilks in California

where the team had to learn the logistics of the area

This appears to be an adventurous place to climb