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The new Blue Mountains guidebook 11-Apr-2007 At 12:32:17 PM Onsight

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As is the tradition on this site, I'd just like to announce the release of a new guidebook by saying the all new Blue Mountains Climbing 2007 Edition guidebook is available now.

Yay!

In the end it weighted in at 2372 routes detailed at 38 different climbing areas, 352 pages, A5, printed in full colour throughout, and with extensive use of cliff-photo topos. Features professional user-friendly design and lots of great action photos. It covers several areas not covered in guidebooks before or not in years (including Narrow Neck, The Egg, Kangaroo Corner, Gateway). The book has been fully rewritten from scratch and many areas route descriptions are far more detailed and comprehensive than in any previous guidebook. RRP is $54.95 which I think is pretty good considering it is 352 pages in full-colour.

Many thanks indeed to the many climbers who helped out! It was a massive production and many climbers were extraordinarily generous helping out authoring, editing, fact-checking and helping with numerous sections.

On my web site I've detailed some of the acknowledgements, given a bit more info about the project and posted some more sample pages. Check that out here.

The guidebook is available now from us by mail-order here. And it will be finding its way into the shops over the next few days.

I’m now committed to updating the guidebook on a regular basis in the future. I welcome constructive criticism and corrections and have set up an email address:

guidebook “at” onsight.com.au

so that if anyone has corrections or new info then please use this address to let us know so that we can include it in the next edition. If the info is emailed to us directly then we will definitely have it and we can get in touch if we have queries and need to clarify any details etc.

Thanks again to those who helped!