Does anyone have, or know of any topos or information on the bouldering on the North Devon coast, Hartland area etc please?
Topos for Hartland, Northcott, Sandymouth etc.. can be found in Simon (not so) Young's articles in back issues of OTE. There is a little bit of info. in the North Devon and Cornwall CC guide. Also worth watching Gone West (bouldering video). Apart from that info. is fairly limited. Most stuff is tidal so head out around low tide.
Hartland Quay - Head NE of 'The Wreckers Retreat' walk along beach, you'll first reach 'The Trench' good up problems, a little further on is a large cave which contains Acheball (7c/+/8a) and an unclimbed roof crack. A little further on is a small freestanding block with the sit start arete 'Clinical Edge' 7b and other bits and bobs.
Head SW scramble down to beach from car park and rock hop across. Opposite the route Canard you'll find and overhanging wall containing classics Carnage 7b and Supercede 8a. Next beach SW contains a boulder called the Rhino and what once was Hartland Roof but that has caved in!
Other areas are quite complex but would recomend these problems at Northcott - Red Quinnie, Red Quinnie Traverse, Ulterior Motive, Soul Structures, The Pinch.
Noticed there are some pics of Upton Roof in the threads r-man posted... unfortunately the roof was burried by rock fall and is well and truly stuffed which is a shame.
It ain't Devon, but Exmoor isn't that far away in terms of distance so perhaps the Exmoor Coast Traverse would be of interest.
Tis' Devon, traverse starts in Somerset and ends in Devon, it is also a proper adventerous mission, that'll take most a few days and not been repeated for time.
There is plently of bouldering at Lynmouth.
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