Selected Climbs in the Cascades

by Jim Nelson, Peter Potterfield

For ambitious newbies and hardcore climbers alike, this revised guide includes 12 new climbs in the Cascades.



* Details more than 75 of the most popular climbs in the Cascades

* 200 black and white photographs, half with route overlays

* Thirty maps



Fun and challenging, this edition contains a mix of walk-ups, snow climbs, scrambles, wilderness alpine routes, hard rock climbs, ice climbs, and strenuous mixed climbs. The idea of a qualitative climbing guide-one that rates climbs by appeal, not by difficulty or type of climbing, was new to the Cascades when Selected Climbs in the Cascades was first published, and climbers loved it.

Genres: Climbing, Reference, Nonfiction

Paperback

First published October 1, 1993

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Reviews

[Steve Heikkila · Rating 5 out of 5]

I absolutely love both volumes of Nelson and Potterfield's Selected Climbs in the Cascades. In the minds of these authors, the Cascades begin at Mt. Hood and go north (cutting out the southern Cascades from California to northern Oregon), which is really spot on. Once you've ticked off the trade routes in Oregon (The three sisters, Mt. Washington, Three Fingered Jack, Mt. Jefferson), there is really no reason to go south of Hood (with the exception of Mt. Jefferson, which I think is awesome).

The book doesn't list the dog routes or extreme hardman routes exclusively. There really is no objective criteria for how they selected the climbs other than their own taste. And that's great, because there is a mix of everything here.

The route descriptions, details, and photos are excellent. Whenever I climb a route listed in one of these volumes, it ends up being the best resource available. And trust me, if you are an alpinist in the Cascades, you want to climb most of the stuff in these volumes at some point. There are a lot of classics.