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Max comments on Bouldering Colorado

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I am sorry to see some of the comments about this impressive new guidebook. Sorry for a couple of reasons. First, I can't help but feel a little defensive. This book, after all, represents my company, and the work of some of the best people associated with book publishing, people I am pleased to call friends. But I am also disappointed by some members of the climbing community in Colorado. Surely this book is an important contribution to the body of information about Bouldering in Colorado. How could it be otherwise? Can we improve upon it? Only if we encourage knowledgeable climbers to take it out for a test drive. At Falcon we have always invited suggestions that will improve our books, and that is certainly the case here. Any guidebook that attempts to describe 4000 problems is likely to admit mistakes, and one can expect some to be unearthed in this book. (I use the future tense because the boxes haven't even been unpacked yet.) As with any book we publish, necessary corrections will be made when we reprint. It would be hard to estimate the numbers of hours of work that have been poured into this volume. I for one would like to celebrate this impressive achievement, and I stand by this book and its author. So as a native of Colorado I feel the need to jump in here to defend this guide, Bob Horan and our opportunity to seve the climbing community. If anyone would like to talk with me in person, my direct line here at the Falcon publishing headquarters is 203.458.4551 --Max Phelps

The Mistakes of Bouldering Colorado

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When you entered this site, you probobaly saw that ad for that book.

This book contains several errors involving access.  When addressed with these issues, Falcon just claimed that it was the authors fault.

Admittably, Horan is not innocent, considering he did write a book that puts people on land that is currently off bounds.  I mean, an error here or there is one thing, but when there are as many errors as this book has, it changes a little bit.

However, Falcon knew the information was wrong.  

A man at the company named Jess (no last name known) openly admitted that  all of the attacks were good because it can be used as a marketing gimic.

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