Touch the Sky by Paul Piana (1983) Yosemite

Touch the Sky by Paul Piana (1983) YosemiteOne of the rarest and most sought after climbing guidebooks in existence. If you are looking to buy this you probably already know this, but the Needles in the Black Hills of South Dakota is a huge maze of pinnacles with an obscure climbing history and poor documentation. This thorough book includes many useful diagrams, maps, and descriptions which are invaluable for the dedicated Needles local. Traveling climbers can find the classics but those

signed by Dingus McGee: "What fun it was knowing that all the sides had not been mapped with routes

A couple photographs up front but otherwise illustrated with plentiful sketches

short-term vacationers

Alpine Journal

back in the day

Harvard Mountaineering

but no topos or specific crag diagrams

describing 282 routes

but inner reading pages are clean and undamaged

and many more

The first rule of Montana rock climbing is you don't talk about Montana rock climbing

Besides the introduction