Rock Climbing New England

by Stewart M. Green

For rock climbers, New England is a spectacular arena filled with myriad vertical challengers. This book covers all the famous New England climbing areas such as Cathedral and Whitehorse Ledges, Cannon Cliff, Rumney, Ragged Mountain, and Acadia National Park, while also touching upon many lesser known areas, some of which have never before been covered in a guidebook. This book leads climbers to the best routes in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, providing accurate information through the use of clear maps, topos, and photos. Author Stewart Green has been climbing in New England off and on since the early '70's, and he enlisted many area experts to assist with the writing of this book. Sure to become a classic, this accurate and up-to-date guide is a must for locals and visitors alike.

432 pages, Paperback

Published June 1, 2001

About the author

I've been a freelance photographer and writer since 1977, based in Colorado Springs and traveling all over the great American West as well as the rest of the United States and the world in search of memorable images and experiences to write about and to lead people toward. Since the mid-1980s I've worked as a contract photographer and writer for FalconGuides/Globe Pequot Press, writing 25 books and photographing a few more.

My books include Rock Climbing Colorado, Rock Climbing Europe, Rock Climbing Utah, Rock Climbing Arizona, Rock Climbing New England, Best Hikes Near Colorado Springs, Scenic Routes & Byways Colorado, Scenic Routes & Byways New England, Scenic Routes & Byways California's Pacific Coast, Scenic Driving California, Scenic Driving Arizona, KNACK Rock Climbing, Best Climbs Moab, Best Climbs Denver and Boulder, Rocky Mountain National Park Pocket Guide, and Back Country Byways.

My work has also been published in lots of other national and international publications, books, magazines, catalogs, and advertisements.

Along the way I fathered a couple of amazing kids--Ian and Brett Spencer-Green, climbed and adventured in a lot of places around the world that I never could have imagined, and had loads of fun. I've kept my hands busy and my heart full. I'm grateful for that.

I write and photograph because of what is in front of me, to honor everything beyond in the world which is great, interesting, mysterious, and always changing. To be a writer and photographer is to see newly every day, as if for the first time, the essence that illuminates and lives within the earth. Every subject redefines me and allows me to discover harmony, reconcile disparities and inequities, and to find shape, symmetry, and truth in the chaos of life.

As a writer and photographer I seek to record my life and times, my vision of the world and its natural beauty, its other creatures, and my fellow human beings, and to find affirmation in life through belonging, wholeness, and living. I always think of the reader and the viewer over my shoulder, the person who sees my vision and reinterprets it in his own experience.

Reviews

[Tom]

Many good entries with helpful beta, including write ups pitch by pitch, photos, and drawings. But many routes are almost mentioned in passing with little information given.

[Joe]

Pretty much self explanatory.