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Largest bouldering walls in London
November 06, 2013, 04:57:17 pm
I'm trying to compile a list of the largest bouldering walls in London. Don't have to be dedicated bouldering centres but should have extensive bouldering and a shop to qualify.

So far I have

Arch
Castle
Mile End
West 1
Urban Ascent
Westway

Any other big ones I'm missing?

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#1 Re: Largest bouldering walls in London
November 06, 2013, 05:13:07 pm
Looks like your spoilt for choice in London!!

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#2 Re: Largest bouldering walls in London
November 06, 2013, 08:29:32 pm
Largest?  Hmm not sure about this but there's white spider in Kingston and a bit more out is craggy2. 

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#3 Re: Largest bouldering walls in London
November 07, 2013, 09:48:01 am
The Reach out in Woolwich has decent bouldering, not sure if it would qualify as 'extensive' but apparently it's expanded since I was last there.

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#4 Re: Largest bouldering walls in London
November 07, 2013, 10:54:52 am
Craggy 2 doesn't have a shop (and it's not in London, no matter how much they claim it is).

New one opening in Vauxhall soon too.

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#5 Re: Largest bouldering walls in London
November 07, 2013, 11:35:21 am
Craggy 2 doesn't have a shop (and it's not in London, no matter how much they claim it is).

Aye but its a damned fine boulder wall and is within the m25 ;)

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#6 Re: Largest bouldering walls in London
November 07, 2013, 11:58:07 am
Agreed - love the place. It's 10 mintes from me (and I don't live in London).

Just Highlighted as the OP requested walls in London with shops.

Are you a C2 regular?

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#7 Re: Largest bouldering walls in London
November 07, 2013, 12:28:12 pm

Just Highlighted as the OP requested walls in London with shops.


To be fair it's got as much 'shop' as some others on the OP's list i.e. they sell brushes & chalk ( as well as being   damn fine)

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#8 Re: Largest bouldering walls in London
November 07, 2013, 01:33:47 pm
Agreed - love the place. It's 10 mintes from me (and I don't live in London).

Just Highlighted as the OP requested walls in London with shops.

Are you a C2 regular?
irregular - -  since white spider opened, as spider is ten mins from me and Craggy2 is an hour plus in rush hour.  I wish it was the other way around.  I might get there tomorrow afternoon as have the afternoon off. 

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#9 Re: Largest bouldering walls in London
November 20, 2013, 12:39:53 pm

 Craggy2 is an hour plus in rush hour.  I wish it was the other way around. 

I wonder which is the chicken & which the egg? 
Is Craggy2 so good because it has to be to survive, given how inaccessible it is, or is it that a wall that good anywhere more convenient would
just be unuseably crowded?

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#10 Re: Largest bouldering walls in London
November 20, 2013, 07:44:36 pm
I'm trying to compile a list of the largest bouldering walls in London. Don't have to be dedicated bouldering centres but should have extensive bouldering and a shop to qualify.

So far I have

Arch
Castle
Mile End
West 1
Urban Ascent
Westway

Any other big ones I'm missing?

There'll be some new place opening near vauxhall next year I think.

Define London?

Define "large"?  (Largest would reduce your list to one... which would be the castle I think, esp with the new area they opened recently, plus the outside boulders.)


 

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