[SA Chris]

Choices aside, wondering how may the regular chuffers on here have actually climbed on. I reckon leading and completing at least one route qualifies.

1. St. Govan’s
2. Stanage
3. Landing Craft Bay, Lundy
4. Scafell
5. Dinas Cromlech
6. Gogarth Bay
7. Malham Cove
8. Roaches
9. Bosigran
10. Froggatt
11. Huntsman’s Leap
12. High Tor
13. Clogwyn Du’r Arddu
14. Mother Carey’s Kitchen
15. Portland
16. Tremadog
17. Almscliff
18. Lower Sharpnose
19. Pen Trwyn
20. Llanberis Slate

Ones in italics are the only ones I have never go to. Not bad, I suppose, seeing I climbed regularly in England and Wales for 6 years.

Apologies if this offends any of the dyed in the wool boulderers.

[Bonjoy]

Have done a route at all except Bosigran and Scafell

[Andy B]

Have done a route at all but High tor and Lower Sharpnose.

[Rice Boy]

Have done a route at Stanage (Twisting Crack, High Neb) . . .  and seconded a few things on Scafell and Froggatt.

If they included Wimberry and Southern Sandstone, I'd be able to claim at least one other crag.

Awfully poor show what.

[AndiT]

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[Paz]

Have done a route at all but High tor and Lower Sharpnose.

They're stamina pumpy Andy, but really quality.

Need Malham and Scafell and Birch Quarry.

[SA Chris]

GOT

Does the GOT in capitals for Roaches mean ticked every route, or just spent in excess of a year of your life there, cumulatively.

[Fiend]

Ugh, just being reminded of this farce makes the despair sink into my bones. The top 10 crags are on that list, but nowhere near in the right order. St fucking Govans for fucks sake grumble grumble.

Climbed all except:

Scafell - you must be joking, I'd need a helicopter up.

Malham - not got round to it yet.

Huntsmans Leap - only seconded a route there, yet.

[webbo]

lundy,huntsmans and lower sharpnose to do.i guess they will wait for my old age.

[Gus]

I need two, Lundy and Cloggy!!
Hopefully this will be the summer for getting to them!

[dave]

i only got 9. landing craft bay in lundy is a strange choice, its only got 2 routes that anyone does.

[IanP]

Climbed all except:

Malham - not got round to it yet.

Can't believe that you haven't been to Malham!

All except:

Lundy - never been not that likely to in all honesty
Scafell - should have done the walk in at least once, maybe one day if I return to trad climbing
Amscliff - bouldered only, not really that tempted by the routes given that the whole of peak grit is much closer for gritstone routing.
Portland - Spain or France always seemed a more attractive option for sport climbing 5 or 6 hours travelling away.

[cofe]

13. lucky for some.

[Will Hunt]

Ive only been to two of them 

Loved both the Roaches and Llanberis Slate. Must get out more.

[Teaboy]

Full house! Do I win a prize?

 

[Fiend]

i guess they will wait for my old age.

What do you mean, "wait"?


Malham, well, I'm not a huge fan of inland limestone, not enough to drive 2 hours anyway. But still keen to go. Have been to Kilnsey, Gordale, Giggleswick, Robin Proctor and Pot Scar tho...

[IanP]

Malham, well, I'm not a huge fan of inland limestone, not enough to drive 2 hours anyway. But still keen to go. Have been to Kilnsey, Gordale, Giggleswick, Robin Proctor and Pot Scar tho...

I'll give you Kilnsey and Gordale - though for quality trad lines at a reasonable(ish) grade (I guess that's what you'd be after) I would say Malham is the best of the big 3 - but having been to Gigglewick, Robin Proctor and Pot Scar and not Malham is not really forgiveable 

[Somebody's Fool]

Eleven.  Unfortunately one of these is Malham.

[AndyR]

Haven't done cloggy and scafell - do you spot a theme?

[SA Chris]

i only got 9. landing craft bay in lundy is a strange choice, its only got 2 routes that anyone does.

Got a dozen or so classics? Probably not the best crag on the island (that would probably be the Diamond), but as an "area" there is a good spread of great routes.

I think Lundy is one of the most special places to climb in Britain, and spending a week there with a bunch onf mates is a great experience. Feels like you are on a different planet.

And Sloper will i ever see my Lundy guide again?

[BenF]

1. St. Govan’s
2. Stanage
7. Malham Cove
8. Roaches
10. Froggatt
15. Portland
16. Tremadog
17. Almscliff
19. Pen Trwyn
20. Llanberis Slate

I've climbed a lot at all of these crags but was utterly shocked to realise just how many of the others I haven't been to yet or have done very little at so far.  Does spending probably half my life at Pen Trwyn and the slate mean I can get a few extra ticks?  Or more likely, do I lose the right to have any ticks for wasting so much of my youth in a huge quarry?

Next should be a top 20 esoteric crag list (you know, like Taylor Park, Goblin Coombe, Churchill Slabs or Humphrey Head etc etc).  Any takers on starting a list?

[SA Chris]

Next should be a top 20 esoteric crag list (you know, like Taylor Park, Goblin Coombe, Churchill Slabs or Humphrey Head etc etc).  Any takers on starting a list?

Fiend? He seems to love that stuff.

[BenF]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking too.  Maybe there's a guidebook waiting to be written there... gather together all the minor, loose and dirty crags that get single paragraph descriptions at the back of normal guidebooks and put them into one bumper annual to sell to visiting foreigners making their first forays onto UK rock.  Should ensure we don't get any more foreign visitors burning us off on our own overgraded testpieces.

[Fiend]

LOL, it's a fine idea!

(P.S. Have done Goblin Combe and Churchill Rocks)

[BenF]

(P.S. Have done Churchill Rocks)

That makes two of us then.  How about Sand Point?