Climber's Guide to Devil's Lake

by Swartling, Sven Olof

• ISBN13: 9780299228545
• ISBN10: 0299228541
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-15
• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Summary

Devilrs"s Lake State Park in Wisconsin is the most popular rock-climbing area in the Midwest. It features spectacular cliffs and other rock formations where the Ice Age glacier's terminal moraine meets an ancient landscape of rock. This third edition of the popularClimberrs"s Guide to Devilrs"s Lakehas been thoroughly updated for twenty-first-century climbers and hikers and includes information for use with GPS receivers. It provides information for climbers of all abilities and preferences, offering precise directions to help them navigate and climb within the park. Features include: an updated introduction by George J. Pokorny and new photographs by Eric Andre a summary of the geologic and natural history of the Baraboo hills by Patricia K. Armstrong locations and updated descriptions of nearly 1,800 climbs landmark photographs from most major climbing areas GPS waypoints, map coordinates, altimeter readings, and approach information detailed diagrams locating climbing routes at most major climbing areas 6 new diagrams, 5 new climbing areas, and 120 new routes

Author Biography

Sven Olof Swartling and Pete Mayer are avid climbers and members of the Chicago Mountaineering Club. Swartling lives in Middleton, Wisconsin, and has climbed at Devil’s Lake for more than fifty years. Mayer is an engineer who lives in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and brings his technological expertise to this edition.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Warning

Introduction to the Third Edition

Preface

Acknowledgments

A Geologic and Natural History of the

Armstrong Guidebook User's Information

East Bluff Climbs East Bluff

Sandstone Bluff Old Sandstone Area

New Sandstone Area

East of the Quarry Rocks

Far East

Siamese Buttress

Bad News Gully

Rattlesnake Ridge

Bandshell Ridge

Middle East

Mousehole Buttress

Condor Corner

Buttress Northeast of Condor Corner

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