Flatiron Classics: Easy Rock Climbs Above Boulder by Gerry Roach (2008) Southern States

Flatiron Classics: Easy Rock Climbs Above Boulder by Gerry Roach (2008) Southern StatesThe Second edition of Gerry Roach's beloved bible to Flatiron scrambles. Out of print and always in demand, this book emphasizes the 'easy' climbs up the slabby faces of the Flatiron formation usually done unroped and in running shoes, a slight detour on someone's morning commute to work. 271 pages, black and white with a good number of illustrative photos.

Black and White with hand-drawn maps and topos

containing both North and South in a single volume

historical interest

This is the 1994 printing

Young Pete Takeda nailing his way up the cover

Early pamphlet-style "guide to X-Rock and other Legendary Areas"

Black and white

Joe's Valley

I remember being chilled by the fog on the coast

this edition revised January 1986 with light green cover

Includes Las Vegas Bouldering (by Dwight White and Tim Hunsinger)

This was the final volume published in Bjørnstad's Desert Rock series