UKC

New FRCC Buttermere & St Bees Guidebook

© FRCC
Mick Ryan UKC

This has been read 27,849 times
The new FRCC guide Buttermere & St Bees is now available. This is the second guidebook in the FRCC series to Lake District climbing to get a major makeover, the first was Gable & Pillar; although 'makeover' is probably the wrong word to describe the hard work that has gone into this publication by authors Colin Read and Paul Jennings, and the rest of the FRCC guidebook team, in particular Phil Rigby who produced the photodiagrams and Al Phizacklea who created the beautiful 3-D maps.

This guide is in full colour with a plastic cover, a marker ribbon and 356 pages in the standard handy pocket format

From the FRCC: "This guide covers Buttermere, including its main venues of High Crag, Eagle Crag and Grey Crag, the newly developed Raven Crag on the Ennerdale face of High Stile, the less known venue of the Newlands Valley, and the sunny sandstone cliffs of St Bees with their modern bolted routes and trad adventure horrors. A selection of boulder problems, both in Buttermere and at St Bees, is also included. Also features some great action photography and many historical pictures from the FRCC archives."

The colour and beautiful photodiagrams alone will do more to popularise these often remote crags or at least open the eyes of those interested in climbing in the Lakes to go beyond the popular hot spots of Langdale and Borrowdale.


You can see the cover of the guidebook: here
Topo example: Grey Crag: Oxford and Cambridge Buttress: here

More details of FRCC guidebooks: www.frcc.co.uk

This post has been read 27,849 times

Return to Latest News

Comments

Michael Ryan
16 May, 2008
Stephen Reid - Needle Sports
16 May, 2008
PS it costs £16 - a bargain price for a plastic covered guide with a marker ribbon!
Lemony
16 May, 2008
Looks cool, like the topo style.
johncoxmysteriously
16 May, 2008
Utterly loath the topo style, but the FRCC have made good guidebooks in the past and I'm sure this'll be another. What's the cover photo? jcm
Tom Ripley Mountain Guide
16 May, 2008
Have you seen either of the guide books in the flesh? They are superb, ten times more useable and asethetically pleasing than a traditionally FRCC guide. The FRCC is really leading the feild in mordern guidebooks in my opinon. Al's coloured in topos that were featured in Lake District Rock are amazing, but photo topos are even better. The cover Photo is Oxford and Cambridge Direct, Grey Crag Buttermere.
More Comments
Add Comment
Loading Notifications...
Facebook Twitter Copy Email