Ben Hubbard's long-awaited new guide to Index is off to the printer. We expect the book to be on shelves mid-July. In the meantime, you can pre-order the guide and receive a 3-month subscription to the Digital Edition to start using it before the print version arrives. (Digital editions can take a business day to process).
The town of Index has a population of 250 people, a general store with homemade kimchi, a campground next to train tracks, a 50–50 shot at rain on any given day and the single best climbing area on the planet that anyone’s never heard of. The locals will sandbag you, the moss and banana slugs will reclaim any route you skip for a season, and when it’s raining, you’ll find yourself at the Wagon Wheel playing hacky sack and complaining about the weather with people who are somehow having the time of their lives.
And then it clears, and you remember why you came.
The granite climbs here are 34 million years in the making: dense, featured, and brutally honest. There is no finer rock on earth, and this is the most complete Index guide ever written. Nearly 1,000 routes, hundreds unpublished, with updated topos, history, and way more geology than you asked for.
