Sources

Gunks guidebooks

W80 (Williams, Red, 1980)

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

W91 (Williams, Black, 1991)

• Shawangunk Rock Climbs: The Trapps, by Dick Williams (AAC Press, 1991)

• Shawangunk Rock Climbs: The Near Trapps, by Dick Williams (AAC Press, 1991)

• Shawangunk Rock Climbs: Skytop, by Dick Williams (AAC Press, 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

• Rock & Snow’s blog
  https://037200b.netsolhost.com/

• William C. Atkinson
  https://atkinsopht.wordpress.com/tag/gunks/

• Vulgarian Chronicles
  https://www.vulgarianchronicles.net/

• Gunks Campground & Climbing History
  https://americanalpineclub.org/news/2022/2/10/gunks-campground-amp-climbing-history

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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)