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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 1, 2005 - 03:52pm PT
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This might sound like spam for my buddy Chris Mac, but it's not like he's going to make bank on $5 guidebooks.
And that's what he's clearing out first edition Big Wall Guidebooks for. $4.95.
see
http://www.supertopo.com/bigwalls/yosemite/bigwalls_1sted.html
Here's what you do. Buy an old book or two and when you do your next wall, just rip out the dang page from the first edition, and note any changes from the new edition. I often scan and print topos for the wall from my guidebook and it's a time consuming pain in the butt. What's your time worth? Just rip up the old edition that you got for $5.
Say you're doing the Column. Rip out all the topos for the routes near the column route you'd like to do. If the route you went for is clustered, you have the beta to do another.
To some of us, me included, it feels weird, and somehow wrong to rip up books, but I just try to get over it.
Just an idea
peace
Karl
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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When I got the "new" Free Climbs book, I used the topos in my old Yellow guide book for my on-route topos. With that, my old yellow guide now has lots of pages ripped out from when I did I used them for the long routes I did in the Valley. I replace 'em in the book after I do the route so the book still has all the pages there, but many are now loose-leaf.
It works GREAT! But I'm kinda sad now that my old treasure is ripped to shreds.
For $5 though, totally worth it!
:- k
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mark miller
Social climber
Reno
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I've been ripping pages out of my guide books for years, when you return them to the right page they are all bent and nasty it's kinda like a scratch and sniff memory reminder of... Charlottes dome, Fairveiw and others (those are just a few of the routes ripped out of the original 50 classics book) The wrinkled pages are worth the memories. For 5 bucks it's another ST guide or a pizza....
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pc
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Watch out for paper cuts though 'cause I got staph on Fairview Dome once. ;)
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bobinc
Trad climber
Portland, Or
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Sure, Karl. You're probably one of those people that also thinks we should tear out pages of Huckleberry Finn and Catcher in the Rye.
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matty
Big Wall climber
Valencia, CA
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When I go alpine climbing on a long expidition I will rip book so it becomes lighter as I go higher or so that more than one person can read at once.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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When we climbed LA Direct, behind a slow party, I had a paperback that I made full use of. My partner wanted me to rip it in half so he good read the first part. I couldn't do it. maybe if he had insisted, I could see the utility, but ...
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James
Social climber
My Subconcious
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We burned a few books to start fires in the Creek. Salman Rushdie's "Shame" certainly heated my heart.
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