In reply to Rick Sewards:
Hi all
In advance of the bank holiday weekend I want to reiterate the reminder not to park on the pavement anywhere in Woodcroft. In addition, it’s also become clear in recent weekends that the sheer number of climbers’ cars parking in Woodcroft at weekends is causing a lot of inconvenience and ill-feeling even when done legally. The problem is that there ends up being a very long stretch of effectively single-track road with no passing places (other than a couple of side road entrances), resulting in something approaching gridlock. While climbers have parked near the old Rising Sun for many years without problems, the “perfect storm” of understandable wariness about car-sharing, restrictions at climbing walls and a lot of new lower grade sport routes in the quarry (and a new guide to them) have made this year exceptional.
I would therefore ask that – at weekends – climbers firstly always use the Lancaut Lane parking places if there are spaces available (for those who don’t know, it’s the turning on the left heading north, about 200 yards north of the village, with a big carved peregrine falcon at the first parking bay). If this is full, and the roadside in the village is already filling with cars, please consider driving south towards Tutshill where there are fewer houses and less pressure (see my last posting above), and make a slightly longer walk-in, or choose another crag. Finally, those of us lucky enough to live reasonably nearby could consider walking or cycling to the crag rather than adding to the problem.
Cheers
Rick