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The Northern Colorado Climber's Coalition has released a beautiful and free guidebook for climbs in the Poudre Canyon.
A free online guidebook, beautifully edited and illustrated, is available on the Northern Colorado Climber's Coalition website here. This book looks better than any I've seen for sale for other areas.
From the NCCC website:
The Poudre Canyon boasts many worthy crags, but without a doubt,
Greyrock, The Palace area, and Narrows have the highest concentration
of climbing. We have compiled a guide of select routes in the Poudre
canyon, including tons of never before released material. The new book,
Poudre Canyon Routes – Select
By Craig Luebben, Cameron Cross, & Bennett Scott, features over 375 routes (of all grades) and 100+ pages, including full
color maps, topos, action shots, detailed descriptions, and historic
info that exhibit the canyon in a way never before seen.
Building on the Poudre Canyon guidebook by Rodney Ley & Steve
Allen (1972), the Greyrock guides of Pat McGrane (1985) and Craig
Luebben (1991), and the Palace guide by Sam Shannon and Tim Wilhelmi
(2004), our book combines past historical resources with countless
interviews from first ascentionists and local climbers. Our goal with
the project is to provide accurate and well researched information so
climbers may experience the outstanding climbing and history the Poudre
Canyon has to offer. As always, it is a free download, so be sure to
check it out and let us know what you think!
Also, check out their other guides for areas like Horsetooth Reservoir, Poudre Bouldering, and more!
If you haven't already, become a member of the NCCC here and learn more about this grassroots climbing group, that advocates for promotion and protection of climbing in Northern Colorado.
From the NCCC website:
What we do:
The Northern Colorado Climber’s Coalition is a non-profit
corporation dedicated to preserving climbing areas and fostering strong
community awareness through education and activism. We recognize that
access Front Range climbing areas is a privilege and that it comes with
the obligation to act as stewards of the lands we use to preserve their
natural beauty for future generations. In order to accomplish our
goals, we promote positive resource stewardship through regular public
service projects at local climbing areas, in addition to a variety of
community building educational programs.
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