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Wetherby Topo
April 14, 2021, 09:42:27 pm
Does anyone know if there’s a topo online for wetherby?

I’ve got what’s in boulder Britain but feel like I used to have something which covered a lot more problems. Though no idea if it was a PDF or as part of another guide.

Either way I can’t find it anymore and I think I’m passing before so it would be great to get my hands on something a bit more definitive if it’s available.

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#1 Re: Wetherby Topo
April 14, 2021, 09:47:40 pm
I've only been once, so YMMV, but my topo would be a sheet of A4 with "PIGEON TOILET" scrawled across it.

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#2 Re: Wetherby Topo
April 14, 2021, 09:50:58 pm
If you can stomach it there are topos on 27crags.

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#3 Re: Wetherby Topo
April 14, 2021, 09:55:41 pm
Its in rockfax yg alan cameron duff in detail. that and ukc will see you up most things.

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#4 Re: Wetherby Topo
April 14, 2021, 09:58:54 pm
Fatuousness aside, I could scan a copy of the ACD topo for you - just PM me an email address.

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#5 Re: Wetherby Topo
April 14, 2021, 10:05:26 pm
Thanks for the replies! I’ve got that guide by back at my parents. Never thought I’d need it with the Yorkshire bouldering 1+2 and the other newer guides.

Thanks Luke, I’ll drop you a PM. Might end up going to almscliff instead but the lime has been called and wetherby is the closest limestone...

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#6 Re: Wetherby Topo
April 14, 2021, 10:24:35 pm
Amateur mistake. The ACD guide is the bible. Enjoy wherever you end up!

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#7 Re: Wetherby Topo
April 14, 2021, 10:25:59 pm
Its a toilet. Go and get some chips from the Whaler instead...

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#8 Re: Wetherby Topo
April 14, 2021, 10:45:08 pm
I've only seen Wetherby on a horrible, wet day when I happened to be there for work anyway, so called in to see what it was about. I haven't been back, but is it really fair to malign it when you consider what people will happily sink day after day into? Church Crag and other mag/Peak lime venues look objectively the same to me - short, steep, ugly walls giving occasionally pleasant moves, which serve the singular purpose of providing something to climb when it's too hot for grit.

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#9 Re: Wetherby Topo
April 14, 2021, 11:35:46 pm
Lime Calling is only advisory, not enforceable. Nicer hiking to a high north facing grit crag than climb here.

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#10 Re: Wetherby Topo
April 15, 2021, 07:42:09 am
I had a good day at wetherby after work once. Tried to do all the problems and I was absolutley ruined after. Better than almscliff for the millionth time (at least once!). Good for an evening do anyway.

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#11 Re: Wetherby Topo
April 15, 2021, 08:03:20 am
I should have been more specific like Moose was. 

It’s a dog toilet 💩 🐶
« Last Edit: April 15, 2021, 08:11:09 am by tomtom »

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#12 Re: Wetherby Topo
April 15, 2021, 08:26:28 am
I will let you off then. I dont remember it being too bad, but maybe I was just lucky!

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#13 Re: Wetherby Topo
April 15, 2021, 08:32:18 am
I've lived 5mins drive from Wetherby for the last year and a half. Walked there once without pads to have a look and never went back to climb. To be honest it didn't look that bad, and I've heard some positive things about the long traverse. Maybe I should make the effort before I move away...

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#14 Re: Wetherby Topo
April 15, 2021, 09:18:39 am
Is Hetchell near ish? Hazy memories of it not being too far away and whilst Sandy - was quite a pleasant place to be...


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#15 Re: Wetherby Topo
April 15, 2021, 09:28:38 am
Is Hetchell near ish? Hazy memories of it not being too far away and whilst Sandy - was quite a pleasant place to be...
Yeh Hetchell is even closer to me atm. Lovely location. Bouldering stays fairly clean but the routes get filthy - at least they were last time I was there (June/July last year), though that may have been due to it being post-lockdown.

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#16 Re: Wetherby Topo
April 15, 2021, 09:57:51 am
Went to Hetchell at the weekend and the crag’s now dry. I’d recommend it over Wetherby every day of the week.

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#17 Re: Wetherby Topo
April 15, 2021, 10:14:21 am
I quite like Hetchell, but do they not appeal to two different moods?

Hetchell: pleasant woodland highballing/micro-routes on quirky rock. Some lowball shuffling. Some straight up bouldering but quite gritty in nature. Lots of things might need a brush to bring them into best nick.

Wetherby: riverside crimp boning/polish skating/crimp stamina traversing. Some nettles, some dog shit. Some steep swinging; crimps a-minging.

Obviously I prefer Hetchell, but it can't scratch a Wetherby itch.

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#18 Re: Wetherby Topo
April 15, 2021, 10:39:03 am
That’s absolutely fair.

If you want to bone down on pigeon shit - Wetherby is your place!

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#19 Re: Wetherby Topo
April 15, 2021, 11:15:36 am
I always used to quite like Wetherby - maybe I’ve got low standards. I thought it worked best as somewhere to get fit for routes rather than focus on individual problems, as there’s holds everywhere so the best stuff was eliminates. Also defining what is the floor and what isn’t is a personal thing as there’s a low shelf along large sections of the crag. I rarely, if ever, bothered with a guide and used to have a ton of eliminates on and around the steep prow bit at the LHS and just do loops of varying lengths back to a rest or traverses into up problems. Be prepared to think it’s shit on first acquaintance, I did but had plenty of good evenings since.

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#20 Re: Wetherby Topo
April 15, 2021, 02:48:04 pm
The lip traverse Liposuction is worth an hour of anyone’s time. Or three visits in my case :-[

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#21 Re: Wetherby Topo
April 15, 2021, 02:57:37 pm
I went there a couple of times while working for a client in Scarcroft in 2015 and I enjoyed my time there.

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#22 Re: Wetherby Topo
April 16, 2021, 11:25:38 am
Unfortunately I didn't manage to fit in a session yesterday, but I'll be back in the area soon and will pop in. Doesn't sound like the best place but okay to kill an hour close to Leeds.

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#23 Re: Wetherby Topo
April 16, 2021, 02:55:49 pm
I like it (but I like Raven Tor too), it is what is .. limestone and eliminate bouldering!

I use ACD guide, UKC logbook, and there are some useful videos, like these:





I find some of the harder stuff (fiddlers 7B+ and imaginate 7C+) rather reachy, and I've not managed them yet but found a way for Fiddlers roof (requires an extra foot move or 2 than the video shows).

 

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