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Title: Out of Date; but the best of its kind.
Review: I remember when this book first issued, we carped about it then (being too much "the classics of the writers' era", not even contemporary at that time). In the late 1990s this is even more the case. The text should have been at least been updated as some of the route descriptions were wrong originally. Still, this book has inspired more climbing trips than any single climbing book/guide in the United States. People have thronged to these routes in the last two decades, causing them to be dubbed "Fifty Crowded Climbs." I imagine this will not change for a long time. Though I feel the selections are not the best, but until someone does a better job it is a classic book, well worth owning.
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