The rock climbing uk blog of Gareth Hanson (and brother David)
From the category archives:
Crags that I have climbed at, what they’re like and how to find them.
Wharncliffe is a bit of a dark horse.
With it’s lowly aspect overlooking the steel rolling mills of Stocksbridge, and the fact that most of its routes are only between 8 and 14 metres you might be forgiven for overlooking it as a decent rock climbing venue. I urge you to take another look, I climbed there last Sunday and I have to say I thought it was actually really rather good. [click to continue…]
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I think I would have enjoyed my day rock climbing at Birchen Edge if it hadn’t been the consolation prize for what should have been a full weekend’s climbing in North Wales. David and I had driven over to the Llanberis Pass on the Friday night, only to leave on Saturday morning after a night of torrential rain and gale-force winds. The weather was OK on Sunday morning so we opted for a trip to the Peak District.
We decided to call off at Hathersage and visit the Outside climbing shop as we needed some new kit, so we looked in our climbing book for routes nearby. We had already climbed at Millstone and Lawrencefield, so we elected to give the fairly nearby Birchen Edge a try. [click to continue…]
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My brother David and I had planned to go to Scotland and climb Tower Ridge on Ben Nevis this weekend. Unfortunately, the Met Office told us that the weather was set to be pretty poor.
We sat down and looked for a crag that we could climb in Yorkshire which has routes 20m and over. David has a book by ROCKFAX called Northern England, in which we found the perfect candidate, Ilkley.
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Lawrencefield is a fantastic crag. It has what I consider to be the most important attributes of a good climbing venue:
If you can lead up to HS standard, you will absolutely love this venue as there are some really pleasurable and rewarding climbs in the lower grades.
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