Two Climbing Books

As a former service member and someone who lives overseas, I realize how difficult it can be to find climbing information when we relocate.

While serving, I was stationed in Hohenfel Germany and had regular access to the excellent sport climbing of Frankenjura. Actually, coming from California and having learned to climb in Yosemite and lake Tahoe, Germany was my first taste of sport climbing. At first I reluctantly climbed sport routes, but soon realized that sport climbing was fun.

My next duty station was Fort Campbell in Clarksville Tennessee. Took my less than 24 hours to find the local cliff, King's Bluff. After leaving the service, I even based myself in Clarksville and managed a climbing gym, owned a climbing guide service, and climb the Bluff every chance I had. While there, I put together the first Edition of Little Crimpers, A Climber's Guide to King's Bluff. This Guide is now on it's third edition and includes a couple other climbing areas of interest to Climbers living or stationed in Clarksville. Little Crimpers is available at Amzon.com

Eventually, I sold my guide service and relocated to Okinawa, Japan. Okinawa has ahuge Marine Corp and Air-force presence and I was very impressed with both branches, but what impressed me the most about Okinawa was the untapped climbing potential. Sure, they were a few routes when I arrived, but they was alot of rock waiting to be climbed too. While there, my various partners and I added a couple hundred routes tot he island, and I took on the task of putting together another climbing guidebook. Aga, A Climber's Guide to Okinawa is also available on Amazon.

Now, I putting up routes in Indonesia, slowly putting together anew guidebook to East Java so climbers passing through can find the cliffs and routes. I have to admit, the rock climbing potential in East Java is immense.

Bouldering on perfect Granite Boulders with soft landing, Climbing Splitter Basalt cracks for 400 meters, scaling 600 meters walls above rice paddies. Who knows, maybe Indonesia will be on the International CLimbing Destination List.