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Hot Links for Climbers

Climbing Organizations and Clubs

• Los Alpinistas of San Diego
• Angeles Chapter
  • Sierra Peaks Section
  • Hundred Peaks Section
  • Desert Peaks Section
  • Ski Mountaineering Section
  • Palos Verdes Group
• Loma Prieta Chapter
  • Day Hiking Section
  • Rock Climbing Section
• Mother Lode Chapter Peak and Gorge Section
• Colorado Mountaineering Club and their Trail and Timberline publication
• California Mountaineering Club
• Outward Bound
• The National Outdoor Leadership School
• Mountaineering Club of Alaska
• c.o.n.f.u.s.e.d. - Commonwealth of Nature Fanatics - Unofficial San Francisco Excursion Division
• Bay Area Hikingegroup
• Bay Area Hiking web site
• Sierra Orienteering egroup
• Outdoors Club
• Ptarmigans, a Vancouver, WA outdoors club
• Las Vegas Mountaineers Club
• Mountaineering Club of Alaska
• Alpine Club of the United Kingdom, and their Himalaya expedition data base
• Mazamas, a climbing, hiking and outdoors club in Portland, OR
• Snowlands Network, a backcountry ski advocacy group
• Club Tread, a Pacific Northwest online outdoors community
• County High Pointers
• Hribi.net - hiking, walking and climbing in Slovenian, Italian, Austrian and Croatian mountains

Climbing Schools in the Sierra Nevada

• Mountain Adventure Seminars , Bear Valley
• Sierra Mountain Center , Bishop
• Nidever Mountain Guides , June Lake
• Alpine Skills International , Donner Summit
• Moving Over Stone
• Sierra Wilderness Seminars
• Southern Yosemite Mountain Guides
• Pinecrest Nordic Ski Patrol
• Himalayan Explorers Club
• American Alpine Club
• American Safe Climbing Assn
• Matt Buckle site on climbing BC and the Canadian Rockies

Useful Trip Planning Information

• Peakware peak encyclopedia
• Sierra Wilderness page
• Scanned topo maps of the high sierra
• Scanned topo maps of the whole United States
• TOPO! from National Geographic
• Wildfire status in California
• Multilingual Climbing Dictionary
• Accidents in North American Mountaineering
• Great Outdoor Recreation Pages (GORP)
• GORP national park index
• California Virtual Tourist Total Escape; California off the beaten path
• Pacific Crest Trail
• National Park Service Sequoia Kings Canyon pages
• Sunrise/Sunset/Twilight and Moonrise/Moonset/Phase
• USGS Volcano Observatory
• Rocky Mountain National Park
• Sierra Trails zine
• Mike Brinkley's Tahoe Mountains page
• TerraServer; satellite photos of the whole earth
• lat/long coordinates of peaks listed on USGS maps
• lat/long/elev coordinates of peaks, organized by state and county
• lat/long coordinates of any address with geocode or the US Census gazeteer
• Earth's magnetic field parameters, including declination
• Erik Goetze's quick time / virtual reality panoramic views of parks
• ePeakRegister, a virtual summit register
• National Parks maps
  • National Park Service archive
  • Univ of Texas archive
• National Forests
  • Inyo
  • Sierra
  • Sequoia
• Forest Service employees directory
• California State Parks
• Alpenglow Gallery
• TrailPeak
• Web Cameras
  • Mt Hood
  • Mt Shasta
  • Yosemite Valley
  • Popocatapetl
  • Popocatapetl
• Transportation to the trailhead
  • Florence Lake Ferry
  • YARTS Yosemite and Mammoth bus service
  • Caltrans highway conditions
  • Road closure dates for Sierra Nevada mountain passes
• Cartographic Digital Data
  • USGS digital data
  • Another view of USGS digital data
  • Digital geologic maps
  • Federal Geographic Data Committee
  • AVHRR & Global Land Cover
  • About the SDTS format
  • Matches place name with coords
  • USGS water-related data or software
  • Data user's guides & standards
  • Cartographic mapping freeware
  • Mapping software
  • Mapping software
  • Mapping software
  • Links to free digital cartographic data
  • A measure of GPS accuracy
  • Shuttle Radar Topography - a NASA mission
  • Map of the Sierra Nevada made from 1 degree DEMs
  • Travel by GPS , including archives, shareware comparison, hardware comparison
  • Waypoint software
  • GIS Data Depot - free USGS maps in digital raster graphics
• Avoid hiking where the deer hunters shoot
  • Deer zones in California
  • Season dates for each zone
• California's 13ers
• Marin and Alameda hiker trailheads
• Ventana Wild
• 42 Brighton knot tying instruction
• Sierra Nevada Peak Photos by Ron Karpel
• High Altitude Health and Medicine
  • Altitude Sickness
  • Research on HAPE
  • HACE: Drugs which enlarge blood vessels
  • High Altitude Medicine Guide by Thomas E. Dietz, MD
  • High Altitude Illness(Hackett & Roach, New England Journal of Medicine, July, 2001)
  • US Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition data on parasite Giardia lamblia
• California Sno-Park permit vendors (from Snowlands Network)
• Ski Huts (from Snowlands Network)

Favorite Places

• Inyo National Forest
  • Inyo National Forest Wilderness Reservation Service and Inyo NF, including trailhead quotas, year 2000 wilderness permits, more on the same topic
• Colorado
  • Colorado backcountry
  • Colorado trip reports
  • Colorado 14ers
  • Ouray Ice Park
  • Ouray Ice Festival
  • Waterfall Ice Roundup, Cody, WY
  • AdAmAn Club, climbs Pikes Peak every New Years Eve
  • Pikes Peak sky runners Saturday morning running club
  • Pikes Peak Cam
  • San Juan Mountains Association and their Chicago Basin Trip Planning Guide
• Shasta
  • http://www.wunderground.com/forecasts/MHS.html
  • http://www.r5.pswfs.gov/shastatrinity/climb_mt_shasta.htm
  • http://www.r5.fs.fed.us/shastatrinity/mtshasta/
  • http://www.snowcrest.net/camera/
  • http://www.thefifthseason.com/
  • Siskiyous Library Shasta pages
  • USGS Shasta pages
• Denali
  • Denali in a 360 degree online view
  • Denali climbers guide
  • Denali National Park
• Aconcagua
  • Provincial Park official site
  • aconcagua.com
  • aconcagua.net
  • Adrian's Aconcagua
  • Mazur's Aconcagua
  • Marcelo H. Acosta, Aconcagua support services and guided climbs
  • Aventuras Patagonicas Aconcagua expeditions and mountain guides
  • Aconcagua Expeditions, led by Miguel Zubeldia
  • Hotel Nutibara, Mendoza, near Aconcagua, recommended by Monty Smith
  • Hotel Balbi, Mendoza, near Aconcagua, recommended by Mark Elliot, +54-261-423-3500
• Climbers' Think Tank
• Elbrus pages

Indices of Climbing Resources

• climber.org archive of trip reports
• errata to RJ Secor's classic guide book, The High Sierra: Peaks, Passes and Trails
• The Climbing Archive!
• Fourteener World
• The Backcountry Home Page
• Wikiverse - a world of knowledge - Sierra Nevada page
• State High Points
  • America's Roof including a highpointers email list
  • Highpointers Club
  • M Fedor's High Point view
• California Climber's Network
• The WebClimber's Clubhouse
• Mountaineering Resource and Information Guide
• Kings Canyon and Sequoia Wilderness Hikes, by Bill Finch
• Princeton Outdoor Adventures page
• Free Climbing resource index
• Hikenet
• Bishop, California
• Explore Mexico mountaineering trip reports
• Web Climbing , entertainment and information about bouldering and climbing, featuring news, slide shows, forums, screensavers, cartoons and more.
• The Backpacker resource site
• Backcountry Resource Center
• Escape Plan adventures in Europe and the Antipodes
• Bay Area Climbers
• The Outdoor Directory
• Rock Climber - Canada

Commercial Outfits

• Backcountry Equipment
• Nunatak Gear
• Shasta Mountain Guides
• Supplier's Directory
• Mountain Gear
• Wildflower Productions topographic maps on disk
• Eastern Sierra Avalanche Bulletin
• GeoGraphic Data Systems 3D maps of Colorado peaks
• Mountain Hardware
• Mountain Bookshop
• Mountaineers Books
• Lone Pine chamber of commerce
• Adventure Expeditions, a Mexico based guide service
• Eco Tours in Puebla, Mexico
• Jay Philbrick, climbing guide
• Shikhar, India Himalaya guide
• Karakoram Treks & Tours with Anchan Ali Mirza
• Mountain Light, Galen Rowell's photographic agency
• Colorado Mountain Photo Library
• Walking Connection
• Crag Shop at Smith Rock
• Squamish Rock Guides (British Columbia)
• Westcoast Mountain Guides, Whistler and Squamish, British Columbia, 604 831 4388
• Adventure Video
• Travel Russia Nikolai Savine, (095)487-5713
• Diego Zurita, Ecuador climbing guide, 5932-504-773
• Adventure Travel Kyrghyzstan
• Freeclimbing
• Beartooth Outdoor Supply
• Cloudveil outdoor clothing
• Whitney Portal Store
• Mountain Experience Nepal trekking
• Outdoor Network recreationalist portal
• Adventures in Travel Expo - Trekking Pavilion
• Up Z Mountain Resorts, Hotels and Lodging

Climbers' home pages

• Mark Moran
• Gerry Roach
• Ken Barz Colorado 14er page
• Bob Burd's peak bagging site
• Richard Carey's peak bagging index
• Edward Earl's peaks page
• Michael Gordon's Sierra Nevada resource page
• Bruce K. Powell Grand Slam of Northern California
• Pete Yamagata's mountain page

Conservation Groups

• Sierra Club
• Sierra Club catalog of mailing lists
• Sierra Club Book Store
• The Access Fund
• High Sierra Hikers
• The Wilderness Society
• League of Conservation Voters
• San Gorgonio Wilderness Association
• 2000 Everest Environmental Expedition
• Mineral King Historic Preservation
• Pacific Crest Trail Association
• Sonoran Desert National Park promoters (a proposed new park)
• Sequoia Natural History Assn
• High Sierra Hikers Assn

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