Sources

Dec 10, 2023

Gunks guidebooks

W80 (Williams, Red, 1980)

Shawangunk Rock Climbs, 2nd ed., by Richard C. Williams (American Alpine Club, 1980)

W91 (Williams, Black, 1991)

W3 (Williams, Grey, 2004, Purple, 2008)

The Climber’s Guide to the Shawangunks: The Trapps, 2nd ed., by Dick Williams (Vulgarian Press, 2001)
The Climber’s Guide to the Shawangunks: The Near Trapps and Millbrook, by Dick Williams (Vulgarian Press, 1991)

GC (Gunks Climbing, 2021)

Gunks Climbing, by Andy Salo, Christian Fracchia, and Eric Ratkowski (Wolverine Publishing, 2021)

Documents

The Eastern Trade (“For the improvement of climbing and the preservation of climbing areas”), a newsletter written, published, and distributed by John Stannard
- Vol. 1 No. 1–4 (1973); Vol. 2 No. 1–4 (1974); Vol. 3 No. 1–4 (1975); Vol. 4 No. 1–4 (1976); Vol. 5 No. 1–4 (1977); Vol. 2 No. 1–3 (1978)
“The Whole Art of Natural Protection,” by Doug Robinson (brochure, with an introduction by Yvon Chouinard and Tom Frost

Biographies

Into the Unknown: The Remarkable Life of Hans Kraus, by Susan E.B. Schwartz (iUniverse: 2005)
Climbing Free: My Life in the Vertical World, by Lynn Hill (and Greg Child; Norton, 2003)
Second Ascent: The Story of Hugh Herr, by Alison Osius (Stackpole Books, 1991)

Websites

Gunks History and Mohonk

The Gunks (Shawangunk Mountains) Ridge and Valley Towns Through Time, by Ronald G. Knapp and Michael Neil O’Donnell (Fonthill Media, 2015)
An Unforgiving Land: Hardscrabble Life in the Trapps, a Vanished Shawangunk Mountain Hamlet, by Robi Josophson and Bob Larsen (Black Dome, 2013)
An Anecdotal History of Mohonk, by A. Keith Smiley (Mohonk Mountain House, revised and edited 1999)
The Huckleberry Pickers: A Raucous History of the Shawangunk Mountains, by Marc B. Fried (Black Dome, 1995)
Reflections of Mohonk, by Ruth H. Smiley (Mohonk Mountain House, 1984)
“Mohonk Lake Mountain House, Albert K. Smiley, Proprietor” (facsimile of sales brochure, 1893)