Technical Slot Canyon Guide to the Colorado Plateau
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List Price: $19.95
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9780944510230
ISBN: 094451023X
Label: Brigham Distributing
Manufacturer: Brigham Distributing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: 2008-07-24
Publisher: Brigham Distributing
Studio: Brigham Distributing
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Summary: Frustrating and Necessary
Comment: This book encourages poor-form techniques that damage the environment, gives inaccurate information that will at some point get you lost and frustrated, is presented in a block-text format that is incredibly difficult to wade through, uses bizarre terminology and sometimes presents deceiving impressions of canyons. This book is a constant source of amusement and hair-tearing frustration for myself and my canyoneering companions. However, I have decided that it is a necessary resource with which to corroborate online sources. I use it as little as possible.
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Summary: What I Expected
Comment: The book was in great shape and I received it when I expected. Good experience with this seller.
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Summary: Another good Kelsey guide book
Comment: This book has tons of beta on some of the best canyons around Utah. It gives accurate descriptions on where the canyons are and how to access them. One downside is the lack of GPS coords.
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Summary: OK Canyon Descriptions
Comment: Kelsey has expanded his first book with a ton of additional canyons to be explored. As always, the initial part is informative of gear to bring, strategies for dealing with difficult obstacles (for example, keeper potholes), etc.
But, the text is really compressed and is generally not edited well. In a lot of cases, multiple canyons lumped into the same description, which is a little annoying.
Moreover, Kelsey doesn't use the current ACA rating system, but has developed his own system that is only sort of coherent. Also, many canyons haven't been updated since the last printing. Heaps and Imlay are still stated in the book as the most challenging canyons. Many of the canyons in the book are at least as challenging.
The most irritating thing about the book is Kelsey's refusal to use the common names of the canyons accepted in the Canyoneering community. The result may be some unfortunate souls finding themselves in a Sandtrax-type canyon because it had a different name in the book.
All the complaints aside, however, this is really the biggest and only repository to find descriptions of all these canyons lumped together. For that, we should be thanking (cursing for the added traffic??) Kelsey.
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Summary: Trusting this book is a bad idea
Comment: The information we found on the internet for E Fork Leprechaun was much better than the information found in this book. After we completed the E Fork, we re-read the hike description in this book and decided it would have been difficult to even find the canyon had we been using only the book's hike description. We'll use this book for supplemental information, but I would certainly not trust it as a sole source of information going into a canyon. I'm accustomed to good guidebooks which tell you all you need to know to navigate and be as safe as possible on a hike. I expect to be able to photocopy the book pages, get a TOPO and then have enough information to do the hike. After the E Fork, I would not do that with this book, I would gather more information before entering a canyon.
On the bright side, the book is interesting and I enjoyed looking through it. Just don't trust your life to the information contained in it.
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Editorial Reviews:
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The Colorado Plateau is a large physiographis region covering roughly the southeastern half of Utah, the northern half of Arizona, the western fifth of Colorado and a small area in the northwestern corner of New Mexico. It basicalkly includes the middle third of the Colorado River drainage. Almost all the canyons in this book are in Utah but with a few --some of the best, in northern Arizona near the town of Page and on Navajo Nation lands.
This is a technical slot canyon guide the the Colorado Plateau. As defined here, Technical Slot means a very narrow canyon often a meter wide or less, usually requireing ropes & rappelling, and/or high-stemming and difficult up/down climbing to get all the way through.
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