Climber's Guide to Pinnacles National Monument

1st edition. 406 pp, topos, photos. For more than 70 years, Pinnacles National Monument has been a popular rock climbing destination. The Monument is near the San Francisco Bay Area, the San Joaquin Valley, and several central coast communities, attracting many climbers from each area and from more distant locations. This book details climbing at Pinnacles, using a combination of maps, topos and photographs to locate and describe over 800 climbing routes. Many of these routes are well known and popular. Others are recently established or newly discovered or reported. The book also covers local traditions, first ascent information and Pinnacles climbing history.