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06-02-2012, 14:38 #1Senior Member
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Decent climbing location
Ok, so my boy has decided he really likes climbing (as opposed to mountaineering, which may come later).
All the good places I used to go when I was younger are a fair drive North from leafy Hampshire where I now live.
Does anyone know any decent sites, accessable/open to the general public in the Hampshire/Wiltshire area or surrounding Counties? I am looking for single pitches maybe up to VS in difficulty and preferably that I could set up with a top-rope rather than lead climbing (it has been a while and my strength to weight ratio isnt what it once was).
Grateful for any good leads as I would like to encourage my boy to continue with a sport at which he is moderately talented and actually interested.Guests are requested not to feed the vampires.
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06-02-2012, 15:30 #2Senior Member
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Now Then! Now Then! Owz about : Harrison's Rocks in Groombridge, Kent or nearby High Rocks just outside Tunbridge Wells?
Plenty of camping sites and cheapish B&Bs in the area. The Spa Valley railway runs by both those spots, great countryside, bit olde worlde, pubs a-plenty, climbing totty about at times and a short drive from you.
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06-02-2012, 15:32 #3Senior Member
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I used to boulder at Cheddar Gorge a while back, is that near enough?
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06-02-2012, 16:01 #4Senior Member
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Thanks for both the hints, I'll look them up. I didnt know there was bouldering to be had at Cheddar Gorge, its probably worth a day out any way just for the gorge!
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06-02-2012, 16:09 #5Junior Member
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Climbing walls also worth considering many moons ago we went to Calshot for school trip and there's a couple of students in the pub who go to one at Alton a lot
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06-02-2012, 16:18 #7Senior Member
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WS, thanks but he already has a number of climbing walls he can use to train on. I want to get him out on real rocks!
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06-02-2012, 16:25 #8Senior Member
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Get info from the local instructors, I got a number or routes and places to climb from them. All North East based.
Originally Posted by Blokeonabike
If you are able,
save them a place
inside of you
and save one backward glance
when you are leaving
for the places they can
no longer go.
Be not ashamed to say
you loved them,
though you may
or may not have always.
Take what they have left
and what they have taught you
with their dying
and keep it with your own.
And in that time
when men decide and feel safe
to call the war insane,
take one moment to embrace
those gentle heroes
you left behind.
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06-02-2012, 16:29 #9Senior Member
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His sister is quite good at climbing too so it may well be something we do as a family weekend sort of thing in the near future (I could use the extra exercise). They are quite young still but in a few years I could see us doing some proper mountaineering. I havn't done Chamonix for a couple of decades but probably best to start them out in Wales.
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06-02-2012, 16:31 #10Junior Member
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Don't blame you, I did some bouldering whilst at Templar, must be Harrisons rocks, remember it being good fun and quite challenging.
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