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A new climbing season has been agreed for Hoghton Quarry. We need your help at a major clean-up day on Sunday 26th June to restore Hoghton to its former glory. Hoghton Quarry is one of the North West’s best gritstone venues. This year we have a reasonable climbing season agreed with the Hoghton Estate (mid-June to end August).It’s still not the year-round climbing we want but it’s a significant improvement.

We need your help
To help restore Hoghton to its former glory, we need your help. A major clean-up day is planned for Sunday 26th June and we hope as many as possible will attend. People will be arriving at the crag from about 9.30 am. Free brews and cakes will be provided.

How to get involved

To give this event a bit more structure we are asking people beforehand if they'll volunteer to restore a single agreed route. We’ve uploaded a list of all the starred routes that we want adopted.

To adopt a route, just email Colin Struthers (NW Area Chairman) at colin@newfoundations.co.uk or Martin Kocsis (BMC Volunteer Co-ordinator) at martin@thebmc.co.uk.

A few things to remember

No visits to the crag (cleaning or routing) will be possible until the peregrines have fledged (anticipated mid-June). As soon as this happens there will be notices on UKC and the BMC websites and all individual BMC members in the NW will be emailed to let them know that Hoghton is open. It is vital people stick to this as the birding interest at this crag is well organised and vociferous.
 
People who are volunteering to restore a route can do so at any time that suits them and don’t have to be there on the 26th of June if they’ve got other arrangements for that day. But we do want you to tell us how you are getting on with cleaning the route so that we can let other climbers know if it is good to go. This initiative is about getting the routes climbed!
 
To view an online guide for the quarry click here
 
A few of the routes rely on belay or protection bolts. Arrangements are in hand to replace these on a like-for-like basis
 
A fair few routes also use pegs. The May NW area meeting agreed that the future of these should be considered on a route-by-route basis. A set of notes to guide people restoring routes is available here.
 


By Colin Struthers

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The peregrines havent fledged the chicks so the planned clean up day on Sunday 26th June is postponed more on UKC

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Hoghton Quarry: July 10th clean-up
 
Hoghton Quarry is now open. We need your help at a major clean-up day on Sunday 10 July to help restore Hoghton to its former glory. Hoghton Quarry is one of the North West’s best gritstone venues. This year we have a reasonable climbing season agreed with the Hoghton Estate (1 July to end August).It’s still not the year-round climbing we want but it’s a significant improvement.

We need your help

To help restore Hoghton to its former glory, we need your help. A major clean-up day is planned for Sunday 10 July and we hope as many as possible will attend. People will be arriving at the crag from about 10.00 am. Free brews and cakes will be provided.

How to get involved

To give this event a bit more structure we are asking people beforehand if they'll volunteer to restore a single agreed route. We’ve uploaded a list of all the starred routes that we want adopted.

To adopt a route, just email Colin Struthers (NW Area Chairman) at colin@newfoundations.co.uk or Martin Kocsis (BMC Volunteer Co-ordinator) at martin@thebmc.co.uk.

A few things to remember

People who are volunteering to restore a route can do so at any time that suits them and don’t have to be there on the 10 July if they’ve got other arrangements for that day. But we do want you to tell us how you are getting on with cleaning the route so that we can let other climbers know if it is good to go. This initiative is about getting the routes climbed!
 
To view an online guide for the quarry click here
 
A few of the routes rely on belay or protection bolts. Arrangements are in hand to replace these on a like-for-like basis
 
A fair few routes also use pegs. The May NW area meeting agreed that the future of these should be considered on a route-by-route basis. A set of notes to guide people restoring routes is available here.
 
Please follow the approach and parking advice - this is still a sensitive site.