Nova Scotia Second Edition Ice Guidebook Online for Free

East Coast climber Roger Fage has put his Nova Scotia ice climbing guidebook online. Nova Scotia has dozens of high-quality routes, some that forms above the Atlantic Ocean and other more inland. The following is the introduction of Fage’s guidebook, which you can find for free here.

“In the winter of 2010, I put together a first edition of an ice guide to Nova Scotia. It was produced in very limited quantities for the winter of 2010. It was rushed, lacked appropriate research, and desperately needed more. This is a subsequent more satisfying end product. With considerable updates and additional original route information from the original ice guide to Nova Scotia put together by A.Parson in 1994. The A.Parsons guide (or the Allan Parson’s Project as I’ve come to call it) is referred to extensively and often quoted directly in this guide.

“Considerable information on various areas comes directly from his guide, and relies exclusively on the information his guide provides, these areas include; Henry Creek, Jeffer’s Brook, Harrington River, Soley Cove, Mason’s Point and Red Bridge Crag. This guide will hopefully help you find the some 200 routes in Nova Scotia, and is the most extensive and accurate ice guide to date. However, this guide is merely an attempt to catalogue some of the ice routes in Nova Scotia, and document some of Nova Scotia’s rich ice climbing history.

“I haven’t really written a guidebook, so much as compiled/stolen information from various invaluable sources. I hope that if I have stolen/compiled some of your information without the proper permission, you will forgive me and merely take it as a compliment. This may include original text, information and photos.

“The folks may or may not include; Chris Globe, Dave Globe, Andrew Parson (a huge debt of gratitude, and hope you forgive me for co-opting much of your old guide for information in this new guide), Sean Drohan, Chuck Sutton, Darrel Steele, Joe Kennedy, Matt Peck, Peter McVey, Chris Eager, Conan Baker, Luke Marshall, Jeremy Howe, Seth Cleveland, Rich Lapaix, Benoit Lalonde, Jamie Simpson, Seb Launcellot, Mick Levin, Andrew Nette, Nate Smith, Aidas Rygelis, Jeff
McCrossin, Ghislain Loisier, Tony Kinsman, Max Fisher, Marty Theriault, Luc Gallant and Holly Gordon.

“This list is likely still short of all those who have contributed directly to this book and the Nova Scotia climbing community knowingly or not. I owe these people a great debt or at least a few beers. An additional thanks to my editor and climbing/partner Samantha Peverill. Too many thanks for translating my dyslexified non-sensical wordage into something for the common climber.”