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Hello,

Suggestions, please, for crags around Hebden Bridge area with plenty of D's, VD's etc to take kids.

Up that way for half-term next week and don't know the area at all.

Many thanks,


Aaron

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In reply to Aaron75:

The best place is Woodhouse Scar reliable quick drying pretty sheltered a very good winter venue and with the bonus of some great low grade highballs below the crag you can stick a rope on if its a bit windy at the crag top. A nice local venue is the right-hand outcrops of Heptonstall Quarry which has some great routes from Mod upwards and faces west so dries quick in any sun (the best are on p.445 of the YMC guide). Both venues need careful supervision as the way down is a bit exposed and WS can have a bit of broken glass around.

In reply to Offwidth:

Thanks very much. Very helpful.

In reply to Aaron75:

Check out Widdop and Bridestones (Kebs). Lots of bouldering of all grades and nice views at both. Widdop has routes as well. Bridestones has some highball problems but not much in the way of trad. You could try one then the other as they are not that far apart.

In reply to dread-i:

Bridestones is a tricky choice... hard to get info on it these days as people have trashed it so the guidebooks omit detail. Widdop has some nice easier bouldering mentioned for the first time in the new YMC guide... nothing on the routes is kid friendly. For bouldering with kids I'd, recommend Buckstones below the road (roadside on the A640 on the Huddesfield side of Denshaw). Another good venue for bouldering would be Blacktone Edge in the Lancs bouldering guide.

In reply to Aaron75:
Right hand outcrop at Heptonstall. 2 minutes from the car park, 5 minutes from Hebden Bridge itself. Very quick drying, great views over the valley and plenty of nice routes for kids/beginners. Easy tree belays at the top and all the afternoon sun you could want. Also some nice stuff S-HS if they're doing well and fancy a challenge.

From the car park follow the path downhill then turn right to approach the crag from below (first bit of rock on your right). Descent is walking off to the left, but plenty of space at the top for them to hang around for you to supervise.

In reply to jonathandavey:

Have you climbed the newly listed stuff in YMC?

In reply to Offwidth:


I 'd say Woodhouse (Halifax) would be the better of the two. The low grade routes at Heptonstall right hand/natural edge are all steep and hard for the grade. You'll find more kid friendly routes at Woodhouse for certain.

In reply to Rylstone_Cowboy:
That was the case but they have been upgraded where required and a few starred routes added from Mod. Its why I was asking Jonathon if he had done them and if so what he thought of them.

In reply to Offwidth:


Widdop will be green and sopping and a bog around the boulders at this time of year if past experience has been representative! I'd say Woodhouse Scar or Hep Quarry.

Bridestones is great and it's not too hard to get to parts of it if you know the right places, but it's not somewhere to be promoted as the stone is very worn and particularly if not bone dry deteriorates quickly, so it's locals only really.

In reply to Offwidth:

Quite probably. I don't have the new ymc guides (yet), but have climbed all over those buttresses so will probably have done all the lister easy lines.

In reply to Scarab9:
I always found Widdop boulders OK in winter... it can be a bit boggy and it is a cold place as the sun barely hits them. T'other side of valley in any sun is nicer though.