August 2018
Anchor Buttress (Giggleswick South)
The popular Giggleswick South crags offer a wide variety of climbing with plenty of worthwhile sport routes on the Lower Crag with grades ranging from 4 to 7b and they provide vertical wall climbing that is often technical but never too strenuous. Anchor Buttress is over to the left of the crag beyond Wilderness Walls and is pleasant and open section of the escarpment that has a number of good pitches easily accessed from the well-trodden path below it. The rock…
Find out more »Deer Gallows
Deer Gallows, the baby sister crag to Crookrise, offers a pleasant evening of short, lower grade cragging on its right hand wall, while on the left is a series of classic VSs and HVSs. Approach: Park at Embsay Reservoir, SD 999544, then walk along the side of the reservoir to the access point onto Barden Moor. Cross the stile onto the moor, then turn E for approximately 50m to a path which leads directly up the hillside. Follow this until…
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Witches Quarry
Witches' Quarry is cut into the lower slopes of Pendle Hill and is home to a good selection of low and mid-grade trad climbs on excellent rock with some fine climbing. The majority of the lines are technical and sustained, up walls and cracks, with good protection available. Park within the quarry - ten cars maximum as stated by signs from the BMC. Make sure the gate is closed. There have been historical problems, so the access rights are very…
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