[andy popp]

Anyone got their sweaty mitts on the new Moorland guide yet? Expecting a copy in the post any day and really looking forward to seeing what the team has come up with.

[Bonjoy]

Yes, got it last week. Fantastic and very inspiring. Some great short essays in between the functional bits (especially liked Tetler and De Gay's pieces). Am very psyched to get to some of the crags, many of which I haven't been to.

[Grubes]

Absolutely brilliant guide

worth a read is the death trap section piss funny.

Also the climbing photos are excellent not found an photo that has not made me want to climb the route, after reading the book slightly obsessively for the last week.

[cheque]

  It really is stunning. So many venues I'd never even heard of, let alone visited, documented with an almost worrying attention to detail. The work that's evidently gone into it is amazing and the 'let's go there!' factor is very high indeed.

If I ran a DEET manufacturing plant I'd be stepping up production immediately.

[Neil F]

Like Andy, I've not seen it yet...

...but I'm definitely looking forward to getting that opportunity!

Neil

[grimer]

Hey yeah, isn't it sweet. Big up to Kocsis and his team of gnomes on their momumental task: "And I walked out a wiser, weaker man."

Have a lookee here http://issuu.com/bmcguidebooks/docs/sample_chapter_issuu

Buy it here http://www.bmcshop.co.uk/product_info.php?cPath=327_209&products_id=6506

Andy, did you get an invite to the launch on 14th?

G

[andy popp]

I did G, not sure I can make it ... guide is in the post so hoping it comes in time for perusing this evening.

By the way folks, Cheshire really genuinely is getting there now (I await Grimer's contradiction).

[andy_e]

Just got mine in the post. Must do work and not read guidebook...

[andy popp]

Mine came yesterday too. Just a fantastic job. I've always loved the moors and have done a fair fbit across Bleaklow, Kinder and the Chew (especially) but I've realized just how many great looking crags there are I've never been too. Places like Shooters Nab would be an easy hit from here - just the thing to kickstart my seriously depleted motivation.

[Muenchener]

Not an area I'm ever likely to climb in again (I went to Running Hill Pits once in summer and nearly died of hayfever), so my interest is only very peripheral, but ...

... the title is a quote from the Smiths' Suffer Little Children, and if this is intentional I find it in very bad taste.

[Oldmanmatt]

Not an area I'm ever likely to climb in again (I went to Running Hill Pits once in summer and nearly died of hayfever), so my interest is only very peripheral, but ...

... the title is a quote from the Smiths' Suffer Little Children, and if this is intentional I find it in very bad taste.

Not being a Smiths fan, I didn't know the song or the lyrics...

So I Looked them up and read about the controversy.

As a poem (not knowing the tune) it seems respectfully sorrowful and perhaps something that should be remembered.

I suspect, though, it's unintentional.

"Over the moor" seems like a fairly logical title and could also be draw from the traditional Reel "Over the moor to Maggie"...

And a few others, to boot, I'll bet...

[Bonjoy]

Over the Moors is also the name of a classic E5 at one of the crags (Ravenstones I think).

[dave]

Is there a route up there called blouse?

Brass Eye - Blouse

[Grubes]

Places like Shooters Nab would be an easy hit from here - just the thing to kickstart my seriously depleted motivation.

I rave on about shooters nab being my local crag. it is was on the eastern edges it would be rammed all the time, but due to the location and access issues normally you have the crag to yourself. Ricochet wall is an absolute classic. Still a few FA's to be had ...
It even has an open LGP with the roof still to be freed roughly E8 6c according to kevin thaw who had an hour cleaning and working on a shunt till the rain came in.

Plus you can see the stallions house from the crag what more could you want?

[nik at work]

Him to pull the curtains before doing naked yoga.

[tomtom]

Him to pull the curtains before doing naked yoga.

Its the only reason I go there