This stunning guide gives detailed coverage of all the worthwhile 'sport' climbing venues in the Lake District together with comprehensive and updated information for 'trad' slate, including the dry-tooling venue of The Works. It also sneaks over the border into North Lancashire!
The guide covers the limestone crags in the South Lakes, including the magnificent Chapel Head Scar, the sandstone at St Bees Head and Coudy Rocks in Appleby, plus the recent developments on micro-granite at the immensely popular Bramcrag Quarry, and of course all of the slate.
Coverage:
Limestone: Chapel Head Scar, Mill Side Scar, Scout Scar, Humphrey Head, Warton Main Quarry, Barrow Scout Cove.
Slate: Saddlestone Quarry, High Blue Quarry, Hodge Close Quarry, Parrock Quarry, Bakestone Quarry, Moss Rigg Quarry, Tilberthwaite Quarry, Runestone Quarry, Cathedral Quarry, Common Wood Quarry, Thrang Quarry, Dalt Quarry.
Microgranite: Bramcrag Quarry.
Sandstone: St Bees Head, Coudy Rocks.
Dry tooling: The Works.
With state of the art imagery from professional photographers including David Simmonite, Keith Sanders and Dom Bush the book is lavish in presentation and inspirational in style.
A Wired guide, this title adds to the stylish, best selling, award winning series of guides and is the second Wired guide published by the FRCC.
Written by members of the FRCC guidebook team and edited by Steve Scott.
Card cover, 21cm x 15cm, 288 pages.
ISBN: 978-0-85028-063-0.