Vertical Heartland: A Rock Climber's Guide to Southern IL

[Eric Ulner]

Features:
~ 328 pages
~ Giant City State Park (52 routes)
~ Ferne Clyffe State Park (24 routes)
~ Draper’s Bluff (71 routes and boulder problems)
~ Cedar Bluff (33 routes)
~ Jackson Falls (over 315 routes and boulder problems) and the Promised Land (43 routes)
~ PlastiCoil binding
~ 80# glossy paper
~ grayscale interior
~ color cover (full bleed)
~ detailed top-view cliff maps
~ many hundreds of images
- cliff wall images for guiding the reader
- climbing images for eye candy, including several images courtesy
of Mike Landkroon
~ 71 pages of a comprehensive history with accompanying images: History section includes a look at the climbing clubs that were producing 99% of the climbers who were at the cliffs of Southern Illinois pre-1980, such as St. Louis Mountain Club (images dating from 1949 forward, courtesy Drs. John Dietschy and Tom Hornbein), Southern Illinois University (SIU) Speleological Society, SIU Shawnee Mountaineers, Evansville Climbing Club, and the Memphis Mountaineers. Much emphasis is placed on the Carbondale scene (images from 1962 forward).

This book is currently at the printer and should be available for shipment to you by late February. It is available for retail exclusively through this site, where orders (paypal, visa, mc) can be made starting Monday, January 17. And when the weather gets nice, Lukas (my 6-year-old son) may open a lemonade and guidebook stand here at Draper’s Bluff.

Price: $35.95
Available at http://www.verticalheartland.com