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New Arapiles Select Guide 28-Mar-2006 At 6:50:31 PM sticky

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Some thoughts from this bumbly -

One thing I like about the 2004 Squamish Select guide (Marc Bourdon) was that it would have series of icons next to the route name that indicated info about the route that was noteworthy - eg - the bouldering problems that were a bit highball or had a bad landing would have a ghost symbol next to them, I think similarly, runout roped horror shows had the same icon; there was a symbol to say whether a route dried quickly (I guess in Araps that would have to be an icon to say whether a route was good on a hot day), plus the route description would say what fixed pro there was (if any) eg "Ancient Heart, 25m, .11c, 10 bolts (or whatever the stats were)" etc etc. Obviously some of this stuff is obvious from the ground, and in some cases is in the description, but you may not want to go all the way up to Comic Relief before you decide you have no RPs and the start is a bit scary - the guide will be able to let you know. The Araps guide has much better descriptions, so some of this is not so applicable, but the systematic way it was done there was very user friendly.

Edit - here's a link to a page:
http://www.quickdrawpublications.com/Select_sample.pdf
http://www.quickdrawpublications.com/Quickdraw%20Symbols1.pdf

cheers, Kyle