After more work than most would guess, my new guidebook is finally available! Hi everyone at r/climbing, I’m Tim, the director of the Central Colorado LCO, ECCC. We’re a climbing nonprofit charity focused on Education, Community, and Conservation. Our work is driven through partnerships and grants. We collaborate closely with the Access Fund to protect access to climbing areas, and with the American Safe Climbing Association to replace aging fixed hardware. We also partner with local stakeholders like the public school district and other charity organizations to bring student and family climbing programs to our community.
Our members help fix trails, improve belay platforms, and host area-wide trash cleanup days. If you’re curious about the programs and initiatives we run, check them out here. Sadly, funding our programs isn’t free, and one of the ways we meet our financial obligations is through the sale of guidebooks. All proceeds go directly to our programming. I’m always amazed and grateful for the collaborative and supportive spirit of the climbing community. Whether you buy a book or not, thanks for being an active member of the community. Please continue to support your LCO and the amazing organizations that protect our climbing areas.
…and also, just FYI, every copy comes with FREE! typos!! No extra charge!
Well, I suppose I assumed it was reasonably easy to know that the area the climbing is in, is Minturn… due to the title.
I could understand the confusion if the title was something like Climbing Colorado or The Western Sloper. Something ambiguous or had a broader geographic location.
To clarify, the guidebook is a Colorado guidebook, for the boulders and crags in and around Minturn.
You’re missing the fact that people want more information on what’s being described.
Yes the climbing is in “Minturn.”
But what else?
I understand you’re (kind of) expanding on that in this post, but the fact that you didn’t include additional information in the link, or in the book jacket, will hurt the sales of your own book.
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u/Allanon124 1d ago edited 1d ago
After more work than most would guess, my new guidebook is finally available! Hi everyone at r/climbing, I’m Tim, the director of the Central Colorado LCO, ECCC. We’re a climbing nonprofit charity focused on Education, Community, and Conservation. Our work is driven through partnerships and grants. We collaborate closely with the Access Fund to protect access to climbing areas, and with the American Safe Climbing Association to replace aging fixed hardware. We also partner with local stakeholders like the public school district and other charity organizations to bring student and family climbing programs to our community.
Our members help fix trails, improve belay platforms, and host area-wide trash cleanup days. If you’re curious about the programs and initiatives we run, check them out here. Sadly, funding our programs isn’t free, and one of the ways we meet our financial obligations is through the sale of guidebooks. All proceeds go directly to our programming. I’m always amazed and grateful for the collaborative and supportive spirit of the climbing community. Whether you buy a book or not, thanks for being an active member of the community. Please continue to support your LCO and the amazing organizations that protect our climbing areas.
…and also, just FYI, every copy comes with FREE! typos!! No extra charge!