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Rock climbing in the Southeastern USA
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FAQ - Southeast Climbing Guidebooks
Recently released, this book revisits many of the areas described in Kelly's book (below) but in more detail. More info posted at http://www.camp4.com/morebooks.php?newsid=383
This is a new work, with new photos, ratings, LOTS of new routes and details encompassing Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama. Call of the Wild at (770) 992-5400 or e-mail callwild@earthlink.net . Cost is $31.95 + shipping
Two dozen climbing areas are described in the best guide to North Carolina
climbing. The Second edition is especially prized, as it was published when
Rumbling Bald
was open and contains route descriptions that can be useful now that it has
reopened again. (contact me if you
have one) 
Southern Rock A Climber's Guide by Chris Hall. 1985, Published by East Woods Press Books, Fast & McMillan Publishers Inc. 820 East Boulevard, Charlotte, NC. Second Printing. Most likely, currently out of print. This comprehensive pocket sized guidebook can still be found in climbing shops, bookstores, and libraries across the south. It lists routes in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and both North and South Carolina. Though dated, the routes have not changed, and the book remains a useful guide to the classics. 
The Deep South Climbers Companion by Rob Robinson and Chris Watford is currently out of print, unavailable. Until the recent publication of the Dixie Cragger's Atlas, this was the best guide to our southeast climbing areas west of the Appalachians. It's comprehensive covering Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee. Remains useful and accurate. As far as I know, it is completely unavailable. 
Dixie Crystals A Climber's Guide to Stone Mountain North Carolina by Roid Waddle. 1970's (estimate). Unpublished, photocopied. Unavailable. This early guide was a hand produced item distributed among a very limited group. Few copies remain. Despite it's vintage, it remains an excellent description of the routes and climbing even to this day. It also represents an archive of early climbing history in the southeast. As far as I know, it is completely unavailable. |
Selected
Climbs in North Carolina by Yon Lambert and Harrison
Shull. 2002. Published by 
The Climbers Guide to North Carolina by Thomas
Kelley. 1996, Published by Earthbound Sports, Inc. PO Box
3312, Chapel Hill, NC 27515-3312. (919) 929-5999. Third Edition