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Title: Dumfries and Galloway bouldering topos
Post by: Three Nine on August 06, 2010, 11:24:17 am
Anyone know of any topos online to crags like Thirlstane? Im going up in a couple of weeks and would love to do stuff like shrinking violet, but need to be able to identify them! Cheers
Title: Re: Dumfries and Galloway bouldering topos
Post by: Dirty Lion on August 06, 2010, 11:47:07 am
Scottishclimbs.com has a basic description topo to Thirlstane in the guides section
Title: Re: Dumfries and Galloway bouldering topos
Post by: SA Chris on August 06, 2010, 12:06:01 pm
.....which now seems to have disappeared!

You might be able to find it in an archive site somewhere.

http://www.scottishclimbs.com/wiki/Garheugh_Point (http://www.scottishclimbs.com/wiki/Garheugh_Point)

is still there, but a lot further away.
Title: Re: Dumfries and Galloway bouldering topos
Post by: SA Chris on August 06, 2010, 12:08:39 pm
odd, it isn't in the list on the main page

http://www.scottishclimbs.com/wiki/The_Thirlstane (http://www.scottishclimbs.com/wiki/The_Thirlstane)

Bit more info here

www.stonecountry.co.uk/Great_Stones_3_-_Dumfries_and_Galloway.pdf (http://www.stonecountry.co.uk/Great_Stones_3_-_Dumfries_and_Galloway.pdf)

with pic of SV

Title: Re: Dumfries and Galloway bouldering topos
Post by: Three Nine on August 06, 2010, 01:15:00 pm
cheers, that's awesome!
Title: Re: Dumfries and Galloway bouldering topos
Post by: Fiend on August 12, 2010, 10:39:51 am
Garheugh is actually good.

Clifton boulders are shite.
Title: Re: Dumfries and Galloway bouldering topos
Post by: GCW on August 12, 2010, 11:05:00 am
Clifton boulders have a couple of good problems with poor landings that don't get done very often.  Not much for a visit of its own but combined with the classic  E1/2s it's good.  The Criffel boulders are limited and involve a bit of a stomp here and there.  Sandy Hills nice location but care with the tides and don't expect extensive bouldering.

Thirlstane is OK, fair bit more there than in any topos- Coolboy and I climbed there a fair bit late 90s.  But the lines are quite obvious anyway and Jihad is good.
Title: Re: Dumfries and Galloway bouldering topos
Post by: Fiend on August 12, 2010, 12:28:27 pm
Oh yeah, sorry, my mistake, I meant Criffel is proper shite. Clifton, never bouldered there, nice mid-grade routes tho.
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