Mountaineers Publishing

Guidebook to hiking, biking, or climbing in the stunning Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

Erupting volcanoes, shifting seas, the icy embrace of giant glaciers, haunts of the dinosaurs: it's all here in Hiking Colorado's Geology. In 50 hikes, you'll see first-hand evidence of the most dramatic geologic events that created and continue to shape

Of the 20 million Colorado summer visitors, hundreds of thousands scramble throughout the Colorado Rockies
* Route descriptions include length, difficulty and main features

* Includes GPS waypoints for critical points (crux moves) and color topos for

Winter athletes don't necessarily want to be snow scientists, but playing in avalanche country does require basicknowledge of the risks in order to stay safe.

This guide will take you from the summit of Twin Sisters Peak, at 11,428 feet—with great walking through fragrant pine forests—to the gently meandering paved trail around Lake Estes, which affords panoramic views of Longs Peak.

Denver sits next to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains and some of the best hiking and snowshoeing in the world.

For visitors and locals, casual walkers and hard-core mountaineers, Boulder has arguably the best "backyard" in the country. More than 60 named trails lie in the foothills within a half-hour of town, and scores of more high-altitude trails are within an h

The quick and easy, packable guide to Colorado's 14,000' mountains.

"If my library was to somehow catch fire and I could only save one book, the long out of print Conquistadors of the Useless, by Lionel Terray, would be it." -- Explore magazine
"The finest mountaineering narrative ever written." -- David Roberts, author

Author–Photographer James Martin has made significant updates to this third edition of the popular Photography: Outdoors, with an emphasis on bringing your skills up to date with the latest hardware and software. Included is instruction on using Lightroom

Quiet winter trails, no snowmobiles allowed * Richly illustrated with four-color photos throughout
* Maps and elevation profiles included

Contains detailed information for reaching 105 named summits, from peaks suitable for beginners to famous, 14,000-foot Capitol Peak.

Includes rides ranging from easy to epic Features rides within easy distance from population centers, plus 2 multiple-day trips and 1 cross-state tour

20 great roadless trails in Colorado's backcountry

The Best Grand Junction Hikes will take you from atop the world's largest flattop mesa to the depths of Black Canyon National Park of the Gunnison.

Surrounded by mountains in southwestern Colorado, Durango is the perfect High Country town with a ski area up the road, the Indian mesa country an hour away, and a gold-medal trout stream running right through town.

The classic story of a notorious climb, a literal race to ascend Europe’s most formidable mountain wall between Brits/Americans versus Germans.

Stories told from a non-Western perspective by one of the most accomplished early climbers.
Sherpas have recently been in the public eye, in part because of the 2013 Everest “brawl,” the 2014 avalanche that took the lives of thirteen climbing Sherpas, a

* A mountaineering classic re-released in the Legends and Lore series* Two new chapters

Colorado Snow Climbs: A Guide for All Season by Dave Cooper. 40 of the finest snow climbs in Colorado.

Cutting-edge information on how to prevent, diagnose, and treat altitude illness and hypoxia in everyday life.

A comprehensive guide to Colorado's wild areas * Includes 74 maps and 90 photographs

The 20 hiking trails in this fit-in-your-pocket guide will help you explore Canyonlands National Park—337,570 acres of high-desert wonderland just southwest of Moab, Utah.

The year-round guide to 20 of the best Vail Valley hikes.