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Title: New Online Topo - Ladye Bay Bouldering (Bristol)!
Post by: Beastly Squirrel on October 29, 2012, 09:35:49 am: Just finished off an online topo of Ladye Bay in Bristol, hopeing to make a more printer friendly version soon, but feel free to use and print the topo! ;D
http://www.beastlysquirrelblog.com/#/ladye-bay/4569514566 (http://www.beastlysquirrelblog.com/#/ladye-bay/4569514566)
enjoy!
Title: Re: New Online Topo - Ladye Bay Bouldering (Bristol)!
Post by: Duma on October 29, 2012, 09:59:36 pm: Cheers James, how much does the main area suffer from seepage? Might nip over for a look tomorrow.
Title: Re: New Online Topo - Ladye Bay Bouldering (Bristol)!
Post by: andy popp on October 30, 2012, 06:59:14 am: I grew up 5 mins cycle away - this must have been the first place I 'climbed', before I was a climbing. Funny to see it emerge as a bouldering area.
Title: Re: New Online Topo - Ladye Bay Bouldering (Bristol)!
Post by: SA Chris on October 30, 2012, 09:00:33 am: Nice one. This has answered something I have wondered about for a long time; I went for a look using the old Avon and Cheddar guide many years ago, and the little pile of crumbling crap I found was clearly not the right place!
Title: Re: New Online Topo - Ladye Bay Bouldering (Bristol)!
Post by: andy_e on October 30, 2012, 09:09:15 am: I wish this topo existed when my sister lived on Edgehill Road, two minutes from the bay!
Title: Re: New Online Topo - Ladye Bay Bouldering (Bristol)!
Post by: SA Chris on October 30, 2012, 09:17:38 am: And when I lived in Bradley Stoke (Sadly Broke).
Title: Re: New Online Topo - Ladye Bay Bouldering (Bristol)!
Post by: AndyR on October 30, 2012, 04:25:56 pm: Quote from: SA Chris on October 30, 2012, 09:00:33 am
Nice one. This has answered something I have wondered about for a long time; I went for a look using the old Avon and Cheddar guide many years ago, and the little pile of crumbling crap I found was clearly not the right place!
I believe I did exactly the same thing.
Locals should NEVER write the "how to get there" section of a guidebook...
Title: Re: New Online Topo - Ladye Bay Bouldering (Bristol)!
Post by: danski on October 30, 2012, 07:55:45 pm: Good effort for the topo but many of these problems have been done before and are documented with names in an old Climber or OTE magazine (i forget which) Can't remember off hand who did them but will find out. The arete on the boulders is called Seren i think, and goes from a sitter at V9ish.
Title: Re: New Online Topo - Ladye Bay Bouldering (Bristol)!
Post by: Duma on October 31, 2012, 04:03:46 pm: Quote from: AndyR on October 30, 2012, 04:25:56 pm
Quote from: SA Chris on October 30, 2012, 09:00:33 am
Nice one. This has answered something I have wondered about for a long time; I went for a look using the old Avon and Cheddar guide many years ago, and the little pile of crumbling crap I found was clearly not the right place!
I believe I did exactly the same thing.
Locals should NEVER write the "how to get there" section of a guidebook...
I wonder if we all found the same pile of choss?
Title: Re: New Online Topo - Ladye Bay Bouldering (Bristol)!
Post by: SA Chris on November 01, 2012, 09:34:22 am: If we all followed the same directions, probably. It was 10 years ago, but I vaguely recall a low roof and a crumbly looking wall.