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the shizzle => bouldering => Topic started by: ziggytang on June 19, 2015, 11:38:41 am
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Anyone got any recommendations for decent summertime UK bouldering areas? I went to the Pit in Milestone yesterday evening and forgot how much my skin hates small sharp crimps when it's warm...bad idea.
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lime
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Anyone tried Dumbarton?
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In general, or in Summertime?
Trick question, Scotland doesn't get a summertime!!
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Well both - looks like there is some really good stuff there, guessing its still climbable in the summer?
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I've been in midsummer and it's never been roasting hot, but I think it would be too warm to try the harder stuff. Personally I wasn't crazy about the rock, but I think it's a place where you need to put the time in to get them most out of it.
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Give us a bit more to go on ZT - which bit of the UK?
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Around the North West really. I'm North Wales based but just wondering if there are any go to locations around when it's a bit warm!
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Around the North West really. I'm North Wales based but just wondering if there are any go to locations around when it's a bit warm!
Coast if theres a decent breeze and overcast (Ysgo?) - high up is normally cooler - or head to the Lime... Also the sandstone in Cheshire (Harmers/Helsby/Frodsham etc..)...
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Angel bay and the little buttresses on the top of the little Orme are good in hot weather. Normal wisdom can be good and pillbox with the right breeze.
I'd recommend swerving the plas y brenin boulder and Pete's new prowess line up in the undergrowth... Midge nightmare today! Same with elephantitus and bustach obv.
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New Plas-y-Brenin stuff any good?
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Yeah Prowess was good and well worth popping up to (spoiled a tad by the rock to the right but climbs well). Didn't look at the other bits as I was getting eaten alive despite copious amounts of smidge repellent.
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Dumby can be quite good in the summer as many of the boulder faces get the shade and if there is a West-to-Northerly breeze it rakes across the crag and boulders, plus the rock is not coarse.
Generally I'd be looking for conditions (shade / cloud / breeze / low humidity) and rock type (big holds, big moves, not too rough) rather than specific venues.
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Angel bay and the little buttresses on the top of the little Orme are good in hot weather. Normal wisdom can be good and pillbox with the right breeze.
I'd recommend swerving the plas y brenin boulder and Pete's new prowess line up in the undergrowth... Midge nightmare today! Same with elephantitus and bustach obv.
Went to Angel Bay on Monday, it was so humid and greasy. Nice to repeat a few of the easier problems though. Pebble level was so low though, could hardly reach the first hold on the Limpet.
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Angel Bay is definitely not a hot weather crag. Need fresh conditions.
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The Indy mate.
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Get some midge repellent, citronella candles and some lanterns and go nocturnal, that's my plan anyway.
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Plenty of places in the county. Queens, callerhues, simonside, ravensheugh all good 90% of the time, as long as its not raining obviously. Even bowden and kyloe stay ok other than in full sun.
Being near the coast usually keeps the humidity down.
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Churnet Valley innit!
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It was mint in the hills yesterday. It's so changeable in the UK you can get good conditions any time.