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Re: [ilikerock13] Guide book to Frankenjura in the USA:
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adatesman
Jun 23, 2008, 1:14 AM
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I'm not aware of one, and given that we had a royal PITA finding one over there I have my doubts that you'll find one here. But hopefully you'll be able to prove me wrong....
We were in Nurnburg last summer and did some climbing in the Frankenjura, but unfortunately I forget the place we got the guidebook at. A climbing gym on the northeast side of town pointed us at a gear shop close to the old city center, and the name was that of the owner of the shop (just FYI, we tried 2 or 3 climbing gyms and several outdoor shops before finding one that knew of a climbing guide... seems fitness gyms frequently have climbing walls but no knowledge of outdoor climbing). I apparently left a receipt in the book that's from "Bat Jura West", 92355 Velburg, A3 Nurnberg Richtung Regensburg, Telephone: 09182-9306-0. That's not the name I remember (the very nice woman at the last gym we went to {whose 'little bit of English' was far better than my 'conversational German'} gave me a guy's name and an address), but I don't recall buying anything else in the area so I suspect that's the correct receipt and contact info. In case you're not expecting it, the guidebooks are wicked expensive (we paid something like 51 Euros for ours). That said, its probably the best guidebook I've ever seen and puts all others to shame. Absolutely worth it.
One of the problems we ran into was that we didn't know the name or author of any of the guidebooks. From what we could tell, the best one(s) (for non-German speaking people) were a 2 volume set called Franken 1 and Franken 2 by Ulrich and Harald Roker (wish I knew how to so umlauts on an American keyboard.... put one over the 'u' in Nurnburg and the 'o' in Roker). I believe Franken 1 covered the northern part of the Frankenjura and Franken 2 covered the southern part.
One other bit that might help if you can't find one until you get there is that 'climbing guide' in German is 'kletterfuhrer'. Not exactly a term you'll find in the dictionary.....
Good luck and have fun!
-aric.
(This post was edited by adatesman on Jun 23, 2008, 1:18 AM)
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