[jonP]

I was at Ilkley this afternoon, and I ventured beyond the main bouldering area into the shallow quarry right of the Lost Boots area.  There are a couple good looking problems on a south-facing wall here - a shallow groove and a smooth wall.  I seem to recall reading something about them not long ago, and I have a feeling I might have read it in Pantontino's column in Climber.  Does anyone know what these problems are?  They seemed to be reasonably hard.

Bizarrely for a relatively unknown area the footholds are very polished - I managed to slip off one of them and bruise my toe, which put an end to my climbing day.

[Pantontino]

Here's a couple of quoted pointers from Steve Dunning:

"Through the trees there is a block with a dyno on its left hand end. Reasonable holds with a powerful slap for the top. Name ‘Squeaky pop' v10. It may of course have been done before?"

"Also at Ilkley Neil Sugden has climbed some new problems in the small quarry over the back of the cow. Steven Seagal v8+ takes the the centre of the clean wall at the right hand end of the quarry. Its a cool problem slapping into a groove from two small undercuts and following this to the top. Two problems left of this Neil climbed 'the grooves' at v6."

Hope that helps.

[Synchro]

Ilkley pretty good place to climb then?

[Bubba]

For bouldering, there's better venues such as Caley and Almscliff nearby, though Ilkley is high so would catch the wind well in summer.

Check out yorkshiregrit.com for excellent bouldering information to the area.

[jonP]

Thanks Simon - sounds like I was in the area of Neil Sugden's problems but the descriptions are a bit vague.

[Pantontino]

I should have also added that Squeeky Pop is reached by walking rightwards from Lost Boots. I think CJD saw it last time he was there.