Wolverine Publishing

11/08/2024

10 years today, Dave. We're still climbing at your crags, working on your books, remembering your voice and psyche.

05/23/2024

We are crushed to hear of the sudden passing of Lee Hansche, a pillar of the New Hampshire climbing community. Our deepest condolences to all who were close to him, and to the many who benefited from his community works, charisma, and energy. Photo of Lee in Pawtuckaway by Time Kemple.

04/01/2024

Our new brand manager wanted us to get ahead of the curve for 2024. Mission accomplished!

03/29/2024

Three years in the making — we're super-proud of this one! Beautiful job, James Lucas. Thanks to the big team of locals who helped immensely with photography, beta, and inspiration. You can pre-order it now and save some cash. $1 from each book sold goes to the Bishop Area Climbers' Coalition.

This comprehensive guidebook is fully updated and corrected, a step up from all previous editions, featuring new problems, new schematics, and spectacular aerial imagery, covering over 2200 problems in the Buttermilks, Happy and Sad boulders, Druid Stones, Rock Creek, and Sherwin Plateau.

11/08/2023

We're thinking of you, boss.

08/15/2023

Our hearts are with those on Maui experiencing the devastation of the fires. Our friend and Maui climber Jeff Jackson's local gym's is reaching out and raising funds to help. This isn't for the climbers or the climbing areas, it's just climbers trying to help those in need:

CALL TO ACTION: Are you looking for a way to support the… Maui climbing community led by Aloha Rock Gym needs your support for Global Climbing Community Fund - Maui Fire Victims

06/28/2023

Attention climbers of the Roaring Fork Valley and thereabouts! We're having a little signing party for the new Independence Pass guidebook at the Ute Mountaineer in Aspen this Thursday evening. Refreshments will be served, and a few local celebrities are expected to attend. Ute Mountaineer, 210 S Galena Street, Thursday June 29, 5-6 PM. Come see and be seen!

06/07/2023

Y'all can now stop practice climbing and get real ... !

05/19/2023

Heads up! Your project is still wet!

Rifle Creek, which runs through the park, is overflowing its banks and running extremely fast, the city said. These conditions are expected to worsen as more precipitation is anticipated for the area.

05/15/2023

We've been working on the new edition of our local guidebook, Western Sloper, so there have been lots of excuses to get out in the western Colorado hills during this beautiful wet spring. In all my years in the valley I've never seen this 200-foot waterfall form before. Amazing! If you're thinking of climbing Kryptonite anytime soon, bring an umbrella!

03/17/2023

Five years in the making! That’s a record for us, but this one is close to our hearts, chock full of new routes and beta, and we wanted to get it right. And then we kept improving it. And adding to it. Independence Pass has the finest high-country cragging in the Rockies, period, and this is its first full-color guidebook. Almost 1000 routes, from 5.4 slabs to overhanging 5.14s, sport, trad, multi-pitch — all in beautiful subalpine forest below snow-covered peaks. Gold Butte? Check. Monitor Rock and the Dump Wall? Yes, the full treatment. Great camping, swimming, 14ers to climb, then hit the glitzy bars of the legendary town of Aspen right down the road. Or don’t! Just hang out at camp and read the essays by a cast of characters including Lou Dawson, Henry Barber, Molly Bruce, Josh Wharton, and Mark Anderson. This book has been printed and is on the way. If you order it ahead of time you get a special presale price.

About The Pass The Pass - Independence Pass - offers the finest high-country cragging in the Colorado Rockies. Even though climbing has been documented here since the 1950s, this is the area’s first full-color guidebook. The highly featured granitic rock of the Pass offers almost 1000 routes, from...

12/09/2022

For decades, climbers in the know have hit the limestone of Trinity Arêtes and pulled pockets at the seaside Promontory in Northwest California, two of the best sport crags in the state. Now, Evan Wisheropp’s new book REDWOOD BURL gives you the full-color scoop on these and over 50 other crags in the region. Between the coastal cliffs and the inland hills, the season is virtually year-round.

This one was years in the making and reveals a huge amount of previously undocumented climbing — easily accessible to climbers from the Bay Area to southern Oregon, and worthy of a road trip from anywhere. In the mood for some sea cliffs, sea lions, river-polished boulders, limestone caves, towering redwood groves, awesome camping? Check out this book, available for pre-order now. Evan's photos alone will have you planning your visit. https://www.wolverinepublishing.com/store/redwood-burl-pre-order/
.. plus, $1 from every book sold will help support the Northwest California Climbers Coalition.

About the book Redwood Burl is a compact yet comprehensive guide to the extensive climbing in Northwest California. The college town of Arcata is the center of a universe of incredible but little-known cragging and bouldering. Sea cliffs, sea lions, river-polished boulders, towering redwoods, hidden...

11/15/2022

Free shipping, cuz you should get out more.

11/09/2022

Thinking of you, boss. 8 years.

10/05/2022

We got a message yesterday from Kris Walker, who was coming through to celebrate an anniversary of a climb in the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, not far from our headquarters. Kris was a little-known crusher back when he did the climb, and teamed up with another much better-known crusher, Bill Forrest (R.I.P.), to make the FA of the biggest, baddest cliff in Colorado, the Painted Wall. 50 years ago. Happy 50th anniversary, Kris - looking good!

10/04/2022

We are SO PSYCHED to have finally finished this book! Penitente was one of Colorado's very first sport-climbing areas. For a while there in the late 1980s it and Shelf Road had the densest concentrations of hard climbs in the state, and later, some of the first "easy" sport climbs anywhere. Despite a rash of new 5.14s put up in the last few years, the area is no longer "in the news," but it's just as awesome and popular as ever. Yet this is its first "modern" guidebook — and the only one that's not hopelessly out of date. Beautiful action photography by author Nate Liles and others. Great climbing, great camping, new mountain-biking trails, and amazing 60-mile views of the Sangre de Cristo mountains and Great Sand Dunes National Park. Now on pre-order:

Pre-order now and save $5! Books are expected to ship in late October. Multiple-title orders will ship together when Penitente is in. About the book Foot for foot, the gem-like rhyolite of the San Luis Valley offers some of the finest climbing in the state. This guide covers all the most popular are...

09/30/2022

We think this is the most beautiful trail-running book ever published. No brag here. Sure we did our part, but the authors' photos and the evocative art by Ann Piersall Logan are the essence. The beta is superb, and the tone will make you want to up your game. These runs are BIG! If you're in CA, this book will give you a sweet hit list you can get started on right now. If you live somewhere else, watch out — there will be a road trip in your future! Preorder starts today.

About Sierra Trail Runs From introductory tours on gentle trails to full-on backcountry adventures up on the highest peaks, this photo guidebook has runs for everyone. Whether you're looking to go bigger and higher, or just discover a new part of the mountains, there are options here to keep you run...

09/08/2022

So pleased to announce the new 2nd edition of the 2-volume set Whitewater of the Southern Appalachians by Kirk Eddlemon. If you are a paddler - East, West, or anywhere - you will be blown away by the whitewater covered in these books, and equally impressed with the amount and quality of the beta. We got to meet Kirk, Laura, and Alex as they toured through Colorado this summer running everything that looked fun and rad and climbing a few rocks, too. Such great people! This was a meticulous revision, catching all the put-in and take-out changes, adding a bunch of runs, and with all-new action photography that is worth the price of the books all by itself. Pre-order discount applies now, but the books are almost here so it won't last long! The link is to the set, but the individual books are discounted, too. https://www.wolverinepublishing.com/store/whitewater-southern-appalachians-bundle/

Whitewater of the Southern Appalachians 2 Volume Bundle PREORDER Immerse yourself in the South’s best whitewater resource -- buy both and save over the individual prices! Additional pre-order discount savings total $13, with flat rate shipping. Books are expected to ship by the end of September. Y...