[Pebblespanker]

Folks

We dropped into Heckley near Alnwick on Saturday on our way north to Scotland as it was convenient and the NMC Bouldering Guide said worth a visit and no mention of specific access probems just be sensible and follow the instructions in the guide, which we did. Nice little venue, Heckley arete is excellent. The confusion arose when I looked at the place on UKC that night and it stated 'CLIMBING BANNED @ THIS CRAG' in the access notes 

Given is mega convenient (3-4mins off the A1) if travelling north or south for a quick visit and is fairly rain proof I just wondered if anyone knows what the current situation is as we are likely to want to drop in again sometime and do not want to ruin future access for others or inflame a delicate situation???? 

Cheers

[slackline]

I'd be inclined to always check the BMC Regional Access Database as they are the ones who do the work on the ground representing climbers and arranging access.  UKC don't.

There is an application version of the BMC RAD available for Android.

[SA Chris]

Maybe the situation has changed since the Guide was published?

The NMC is probably the place with its ear closest to the ground, ad they say it's a no go unless you fancy picking shot out your bum.

http://thenmc.org.uk/onlineguide/index.php?v=4&s=3&id=43&sid=1

[punkpunk]

There was some incident with a guy with a gun if I remember right....

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[punkpunk]

http://thenmc.org.uk/onlineguide/index.php?v=4&s=2&id=43

Not especially obvious but in the access small print.

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[SA Chris]

Can you not switch off that signature btw?

[punkpunk]

Like that..

[punkpunk]

Just like that.....have to delete it every time though?

[slackline]

Just like that.....have to delete it every time though?

Others have signatures, do what you want.

[tomtom]

Just like that.....have to delete it every time though?

Its in the tapatalk settings..

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[punkpunk]

Nice cheers

[tomtom]

Nice cheers

(sorry - had my early morning facetious head on..)

[Pebblespanker]

Thanks for the responses guys, looks like a return visit is a no-no which is a real shame.

Quite happy to miss the chance to be accidentally shot, I had an idiot induced very near miss with a shotgun whilst innocently carp fishing a few years ago and am quite happy to forego the pleasure of lead flying past inches from my head again

Oddly though we were definitely not the only ones there recently as the traverses were all well chalked as well as all the harder up problems at the LH end, hopefully access could be regained sometime as its a nice little venue for a couple of hours