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Climber’s Guide to Devil’s Lake
Third Edition
Sven Olof Swartling and Pete Mayer
“Climbers will appreciate the extra route photography and GPS navigational information.”—Peter Schmitz, owner, Wildside Adventure Sports, Baraboo, Wisconsin
Devil’s Lake State Park in Wisconsin is the most popular rock-climbing area in the Midwest. It features spectacular cliffs and other rock formations where the Ice Age glacier’s terminal moraine meets an ancient landscape of rock.
This third edition of the popular Climber’s Guide to Devil’s Lake has been thoroughly updated for twenty-first-century climbers and hikers and includes information for use with GPS receivers. It provides information for climbers of all abilities and preferences, offering precise directions to help them navigate and climb within the park.
Features include:
• an updated introduction by George J. Pokorny and new photographs by Eric Andre
• a summary of the geologic and natural history of the Baraboo hills by Patricia K. Armstrong
• locations and updated descriptions of nearly 1,800 climbs
• landmark photographs from most major climbing areas
• GPS waypoints, map coordinates, altimeter readings, and approach information
• detailed diagrams locating climbing routes at most major climbing areas
• 6 new diagrams, 5 new climbing areas, and 120 new routes
• More than 19,000 copies sold of earlier editions
“Anything and everything you might want to know about conquering the bluffs at Devil’s Lake.” —The Capital Times
Sven Olof Swartling and Pete Mayer are avid climbers and members of the Chicago Mountaineering Club. Swartling lives in Middleton, Wisconsin, and has climbed at Devil’s Lake for more than fifty years. Mayer is an engineer who lives in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and brings his technological expertise to this edition.
For more information regarding publicity and reviews, contact Chris Caldwell, phone: (608) 263-0734, email: publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu
Of related interest
Along Wisconsin’s Ice Age Trail
Photographs by Bart Smith
Edited by Eric Sherman and Andrew Hanson III
Foreword by Congressman David R. Obey
“The Ice Age Trail is a nationally significant resource, and this appealing book paints a picture of the trail that is both engaging for a general audience and scientifically rich.”—David Lillard, past president of the American Hiking Society
November 2008
LC: 2008013450 GV
424 pp. 4 1/2 x 8
109 b/w photos, 74 diagrams,
1 map
ISBN 978-0-299-22854-5
Paper $19.95 t
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