Gerry Roach's Book - Fourth Edition

[XterraRob]

My Higher Power, in a very 12 Step way, is Green Mountain.

Doesn't she hold a lot of Rattlesnakes?

[cedica]

Doesn't she hold a lot of Rattlesnakes?

Aren't you supposed to enjoy complete package until death do you part? Venomous blossoms, choleric fruit, violet nightshades included?

[Mtnman200]

Mountains can't love you back.

Wait, what???

[justiner]

Doesn't she hold a lot of Rattlesnakes?

Aren't you supposed to enjoy complete package until death do you part? Venomous blossoms, choleric fruit, violet nightshades included?

You don't date your Higher Power. I don't believe in God, so a mountain it is! Find your Surfer Girl, but don't find her in the mountains.

[cedica]

You don't date your Higher Power.

Nor your therapist. Now I see the error of my ways.

Maybe we are almost ready to debate #8: "Never bivouac"? That one always looked controversial to me. I would understand "Never deliberately", but we have to plan for unplanned, right? So if it happens accidentally and we are ready to survive it, would that break the commandment?

[Old Hickory]

Surfer Girl is a song from the Beach Boys about pining for the perfect love. Don't fall in love with the mountains more than a real love.

Mountains can't love you back.

Thank you sir! That makes perfect sense. . . . Apparently, I'm not quite old enough to have Surfer Girl in my mental pop-culture catalog, but Jerry is (disclosure: I'm 64; so Jerry was old enough to go to Beach Boys concerts when I was a child.)

[peter303]

14ers.com is a better source and the app is useful when you are actually on the trail. Who wants to bring an entire book on the hike? Roach has some routes Bill doesn’t have, but that might be on purpose. Bill’s site is aimed at non-technical climbers which is a good way to go for safety reasons. I used Roach for years before joining 14ers.com in 2010 or 2011. I did get a kick out of Roach’s lack of detail as if he was bored, “... at tree line, pick your route.” This was in the old days when there weren’t always established trails. I remember those days.

I just xeroxed the relevant 3-4 pages from Roach. Those pages dont disappear when battery runs low. The more backup information, the merrier,

[madbuck]

I just xeroxed the relevant 3-4 pages from Roach. Those pages dont disappear when battery runs low. The more backup information, the merrier,

Exactly -- this used to be the way when working at an office with a copy machine, and/or having a scanner+printer ("all-in-one") at home.
But "OK Boomer" (or "OK Gen Xer") is a fair response

[two lunches]

i stumbled across gerry’s “classic routes” list on p. 310-311 of the 2nd edition of his thirteeners book, but i don’t see one in the 3rd edition of the fourteeners book.

before i spend the time to put one together (because all the routes are denoted in the descriptions already), does anyone have the 14ers version of this?

[Cygnus X1]

I have the 3rd edition of 14ers. In the appendix, the lists are by elevation, prominence, quadrangle, and R points. No separate list of classics.

[HikerGuy]

i stumbled across gerry’s “classic routes” list on p. 310-311 of the 2nd edition of his thirteeners book, but i don’t see one in the 3rd edition of the fourteeners book.

before i spend the time to put one together (because all the routes are denoted in the descriptions already), does anyone have the 14ers version of this?

It's in the second edition:

14er_classics_pg1.jpg

14er_classics_pg2.jpg

[two lunches]

THANK YOU!!! i can't believe he dropped that from the 3rd edition!

i'll get these on one of my ever-expanding to-do lists