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One of my mates has been blathering on at me all year about this guide, and now even I'm starting to dribble with anticipation.
So can someone please give me a date,when can I walk into outside and buy a copy?How much will it be?
Or is it still just over the horizon?
It'll be like a pint of Guinness, good things come to those
who wait.
Bring it on!

In reply to The Flying Giraffe:

Funnily enough I was going to post exactly the same topic!! Just did a spot of boulderage over there and I am impressed and seeing a lot of potential, particularly because there area has so much variety i.e. not just slopey grit or polished limestone but all sorts of styles.

Definitely looking forward to this one...

In reply to Fiend: Tiz true boyo, loads of stuff to do, and even more thats yet to be done.
The guide is supposed to be quite fat, full of esoteric gems, me hopes.
So does anyone know anything or what?

In reply to The Flying Giraffe:
Sounds like this guide will be worth purchasing.

In reply to Billy De Kid: Yep,just thought i'd send this link to the forums latest, in hope that someone online knows anything?

In reply to The Flying Giraffe:

HELP. I just said the flying giraffe wanted to find out about bouldering in Wales. Ten minutes later there are men in white coats hammering on the door. Please phone an announcement to the BBC to show I am not mad and that you really exist.

In reply to sutty: Its true, I do exist, and im bumping this thread up the forum list once more in the hope that someone online knows anything?
Well at least im persistent...

In reply to The Flying Giraffe:

In a previous thread Simon Panton said it should be in the shops by August.

This could mean that it is in fact very imminent. However if that date was a prediction without a date booked at the printers then it was probably an optimistic guess (I have made many of them myself in the past; until you have a booking at the printers it is difficult to predict when you will be able to get everything together). Usually one books the printers at least a month before printing, then the printers usually take about a month.

This doesn't help you much but it might point out the fact that this is a very inexact process, especially for those who haven't done it many times before.

I am sure the end result will be worth waiting for though.

Alan

In reply to Alan James, ROCKFAX:
si told me today (on another forum) that all he cold say was "soon", which sounds good to me. Bo.

Nice one chaps!
Some vague yet helpful info
I'm off back to Wales on monday, im getting withdrawals with all this work and no climbing, hope the rain stays away...

In reply to daveP:

Be wary of believing any guidebook publisher who says "soon"

... me included

In reply to The Flying Giraffe: I should have replied to this earlier, but I'm getting tired of hearing myself apologise again and again (and no doubt you lot are too). Broken promise, after broken promise doesn't really help anybody - like Dave said, 'soon'.

Its been a steep learning curve and I was very naive and no doubt there are still unforeseen problems waiting to trip me up in the final furlong.

If its any consolation, the final proofs look amazing.

I liked the Guinness analogy - I can see those mighty horses charging the beach on the crest of a vast and powerful wave, nostrils flaring, manic eyes bulging and each with a copy of the book clamped firmly between rows of tomb stone teeth. As the waves break and the mythical horses vanish into the ether, a hail of mythical books rain down upon the beach. Flying Giraffe steps forward, grabs his very own personal copy and runs for the hills...or something like that.

In reply to Simon Panton:

Straight from the horses mouth! hehe!

Look what you've done everyone! Are you happy now?! You've put so much pressure on the poor man that he's actually cracked! he's lost it! White horses, Tombstone teeth! Crikey!

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In reply to Simon Panton:

Panto, I for one am not bothered about the release date as I never knew there was one. I'm just looking forward to it and we all know you are da man for the job.

In reply to Simon Panton: Im sure it'll be ace, like Fiend says, you the man.
In light of your previous section of prose;

"I can see those mighty horses charging the beach on the crest of a vast and powerful wave, nostrils flaring, manic eyes bulging and each with a copy of the book clamped firmly between rows of tomb stone teeth. As the waves break and the mythical horses vanish into the ether, a hail of mythical books rain down upon the beach. Flying Giraffe steps forward, grabs his very own personal copy and runs for the hills...or something like that"

perhaps you should consider branching out from guidebooks to novels!

In reply to The Flying Giraffe:

Or perhaps he could become JCT the second!

In reply to Anonymous: What?!?

In reply to Simon Panton: any developments on this yet? off up there this weekend in the hope of dry rock.

In reply to The Flying Giraffe:

Let's give this one some phat BUMP action, having been over there recently and using Panto's Northern Soul #2 to find some very tasty problems, it's highlighted more than ever the quality of NW bouldering...

In reply to Fiend: Couldn't agree more.

A couple of weeks ago Ray Wood showed Neil Pearson (OTE editor) around the Pass, and Neil was apparently overwhelmed by what he saw - I think he was expecting a load of shite eliminates.

Unfortunately the guide is still in the 'coming soon' category.