This third edition of the original Stone Country guide to bouldering in Scotland updates the vast geologies available to the travelling boulderer. It is a dedicated & closely edited gazetteer which showcases the newest as well as the classic venues, featuring the top problems. It is the only comprehensive guide to Scottish bouldering which has now been revised with updated topos & maps, & dozens of new venues added. This is an essential piece of bouldering kit for any climber visiting Scotl&. Edited by John Watson who has been bouldering & exploring Scottish stones for over 20 years. ...

The latest addition to the ” Mountaineers Outdoor Expert” series, ” Bouldering: Movement, Tactics & Problem Solving” demonstrates not just the basics of how to boulder, but also how to get better at it & take it to the next level. Whether you`re a beginning climber who just started at the local wall, a competitive sport climber looking for a new challenge, or an aging alpinist who needs to take a season off from high-altitude, this guidebook offers something for everyone pursuing the art of bouldering: gear, movement, tactics, training, injury prevention, competitions, & more. Contributing photography & insights come from climbers such as Dave Graham, Jamie Emerson, Paul Robinson, Chris Schulte, Daniel Woods, Ty Landman & many others, & an appendix highlights many of the top bouldering destinations all over the world. It

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This guide covers bouldering in Valmasino. The granite boulders provide some of the best bouldering to be found in the world. Coverage

Includes:: 37 different bouldering areas in the Val Masino area including Val di Mello, Valle dei Bagni, & Piana del Remenno. Over 2, 200 problems are described across a wide range of grades to suit boulders of all abilities. At the start of each area is a description of the style of bouldering to be found, a location map, approach information & an aerial colour topo of all the boulders in the area. Symbols then indicate altitude, best time of the year to climb, number of problems covered, & generally how popular the place is. GPS co-ordinates are given for the parking areas & important boulders. All the problems are shown on colour photo topos with Fontainebleau grades used throughout. Written in Italian, German & English text with colour photos throughout.

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This is a follow-up to the popular rock climbing guidebook Stone Country which appeared in 2005 (ISBN 095487790X). It is a full-colour companion to all the best bouldering areas in Scotl&, with hundreds of topos, maps, photographs & circuits for the travelling boulderer. It also documents the history of bouldering in Scotland & points to a limitless future for new bouldering from a vibrant community of climbers. Scotland is an exciting & vast geological arena for bouldering. This new guide covers recent development & classic bouldering in the main areas: Dumfries & Galloway, the Clyde Valley, the Trossachs & Arrochar, Lochaber & Glen Nevis, Torridon & Applecross, the East Coast, Aberdeenshire, Inverness & Strathspey, the Far North West & the Islands. Each area is given access maps, diagrams & photo-topos to pinpoint the classic problems & testpieces. It is a guide for the dedicated boulderer as much as the travelling 'circuit' boulderer, & will appeal to all those who enjoyed the first edition. This new edition is full colour & has been radically updated & exhaustively researched. ...

When first published in 2003, ” Bouldering in the Canadian Rockies” was the only book of its kind available. Now, three years later, the original comprehensive edition has been updated & expanded to include all the latest information on this hot sport. With more than 50 pages of new material as well as new images & topos, this second edition of ” Bouldering in the Canadian Rockies” is an even more comprehensive guide to the best bouldering areas. These include: the Glenwood Erratic, Frank Slide, Big Rock, the Beddington area, White Buddha, Big Choss, Rundle Boulders, EEOR, Grassi Lakes, Jura Creek, Takakkaw Falls, Cathedral Forest, Weeping Boulders, Laporte`s Leap, The Love Den, Tonquin Boulders, The White Rabbit Boulders & the Cadomin area. ...

Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

The language of cycling is vibrant, sophisticated, often impenetrable & extremely French. Find yourself confused, nodding along when a rouleur relates how le biscuit was effrite (crumbled)? How today they`re feeling Angers (past caring)? Fear no more, for Boulting`s Velosaurus will illuminate, enlighten &, frankly, mislead. In his Velosaurus, ITV Tour de France commentator & cycling writer Ned Boulting provides the ultimate lexicon of nonsense terminology surrounding the esteemed Tour de France. Featuring essential vocabulary like Alpe (an Alp), panache (riding with doomed flamboyance, conscious of the need to renew one`s contract), moutarde (any race that ends, begins or passes through the city of Dijon) & maillot (a jumper, obviously), Boulting`s Velosaurus is the ideal companion to all things peloton for linguistically-challenged fans of non-automotive two-wheeled sport. ...

” Bound for Glory” is the autobiography of Woody Guthrie, the founder of modern American folk music. It is a funny, cynical, earthy & tragic account of his life in an Oklahoma oil-boom town, of the Depression that followed, & of his subsequent travels in, on, & under trains, in stolen cars & on his feet, round an America going rotten from the top downwards. ...