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Church Ope bouldering - Portland
May 04, 2010, 08:29:11 pm
Will probably be spending a few weekends down on the island over the summer and have done most of what I can over cuttings way (there was a video of a new problem on the nice tree boulder posted on here some time back, a V8 I think, looked eliminate though so details - and a link - might be nice if anyone knows).

Otherwise I was wondering if anyone knew where the "Church Ope" boulders were. I've wandered around the Church Ope Bay/Valley area a number of times on my way back from the collo boulder etc but never found anything

There's some pictures of Jimbo Kimber on some problems on the other channel
http://www.ukclimbing.com/images/dbpage.html?id=13807
http://www.ukclimbing.com/images/dbpage.html?id=13802
http://www.ukclimbing.com/images/dbpage.html?id=13805

Any info much appreciated

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#1 Re: Church Ope bouldering - Portland
May 04, 2010, 09:30:47 pm
From the Mermaid walk down the steps towards the bay and take a path rising up the other side. I think that it passes behind some small huts rather than actually going across the bay itself. Anyway, up the other side there is a fairly obvious overhanging face to your right, just over a small depression next to the path. The right hand side of this is 'ope in hell' (the second of your photos) which is apparently 7b+ and well worth doing.
If you continue walking away from the bay you'll come across a quarried wall (not the one visible from the ope in hell boulder!) which i think is where the other two problems in those photos are, but i've never tried them so can't comment. There looks to be a fair amount of rock around that stretch of coast.
I emailed Ben off the Dorset climbing website for a bit more info after doing ope in hell to confirm i'd done the right problem (i met a guy at the cuttings who told me that he'd heard rumours of this mythical problem!) and he reckoned there was quite a lot of stuff there that was never documented, so might be worth contacting him if you want to know more. Or pm me and i'll try and help.

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#2 Re: Church Ope bouldering - Portland
May 19, 2010, 06:39:17 pm
mr T

I use ti live on portland for almost 5 years, we developed a lot of things along that part of the island, but nothing was ever recorded as we were all sport climbers, but you just walk down to the steps and half way up the hill there are lots of little bits of rocks with stuff on them some good some not so good, just go expore and you will find

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#3 Re: Church Ope bouldering - Portland
May 19, 2010, 08:13:22 pm
mr T

I use ti live on portland for almost 5 years, we developed a lot of things along that part of the island, but nothing was ever recorded as we were all sport climbers, but you just walk down to the steps and half way up the hill there are lots of little bits of rocks with stuff on them some good some not so good, just go expore and you will find

Ta will do - oh by the way happy birthday :-)

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#4 Re: Church Ope bouldering - Portland
May 19, 2010, 08:36:03 pm
chhers  :beer2:

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#5 Re: Church Ope bouldering - Portland
November 28, 2010, 04:56:01 pm
If anyone's interested....
http://www.youtube.com/user/sircumfrins#p/a/u/2/Q9BV5JiPzHk
can't get youtube to embed  >:( should probably  :rtfm:

 

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