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Centeral Montana Rock,

Jake Mergenthaler

Alpine Ice & Rock Guide,

Ron Brunckhorst

Paradise Valley:

A Rock Climbers Guide,

Kevin Hutchison

The Rock Climbers Guide to Montana,

edited by Randall Green

Winter Dance:  Select Ice Climbs in Southern Montana and Northern Wyoming,

Joe Josephson

Butte's Climbing Guide - 3rd Edition -
Montana's premier rock climbing area.

Published posthumously, Butte's Climbing Guide is a tribute to the author, the Butte native and Montana climbing legend Dwight Bishop. This is the definitive guide to the rock climbing and bouldering of the famous and unique "Boulder Batholith."

Spread out across the Continental Divide, the areas covered offer a wealth of climbing opportunities with everything from roadside crags, to the best back country spires in the state, to vast and largely untapped bouldering fields.

Long popular with locals from Butte, Missoula, Bozeman and Helena, the Boulder Batholith is scattered near the arteries of Interstate 90 and Interstate 15; offering an easily accessible "stop-over" for road-tripping climbers from Alberta or from across the US headed south to the desert, north to Canada, east to Devil's Tower, or west to the Cascades.

Whiskey Gulch Bouldering
by Alek Tkach.

Butte's Climbing Guide, 3rd edition features "Whiskey Gulch Bouldering" by Alek Tkach. Long the secret haunt of the hard core Bozeman and Missoula bouldering set, Whiskey has developed into one of America's premier bouldering venues, featuring multiple problems off all grades up to V11 including boulders with short sandy landings to the nastiest highballs you can imagine.

Central Montana Rock by Jake Mergenthaler
Volume 2 : Big Sky Rock Series of Montana Climbing Guides

Montana climbing legend Bill Dockins claims, "Per capita, the number of routes the Helenaclimbers are putting up makes the rest of us look like we are sleeping."

Indeed, the spectacular canyons of the Big Belt Mountains and along the Rocky Mountain Front contain the highest concentration of quality limestone in the state. Throw in the lovely granite spires of the Elk Horn mountains west of Helena and Central Montana presents of the finest cragging areas anywhere. There are year-round crags, free camping near every venue, and a crowded day means three other parties somewhere within earshot.

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