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looking to buy a new up to date guide for the gower but torn between guides, whats peoples views and recommendations/ preference?

In reply to andrew(willy)wilson: The new guide by Matt Woodfield and another chap who's name I can't remember without looking at my book. Anyway beats the Gower and S, E, Wales book hands down. Also look on the South Wales mountaineering club wiki.

In reply to andrew(willy)wilson: pretty much what he said, most of the old guide is on the wiki anyhow if you want to visit somewhere which isn't in the new guide.

http://www.southwalesmountaineering.org.uk/g_book/index.php/South_Wales_Mou...

In reply to andrew(willy)wilson:

This be the one:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gower-Rock-Selected-Climbs/dp/1906095361

Stuart Llewelyn and Matt Woodfield

Cracking guide

In reply to andrew(willy)wilson: Yeah definitely Gower Rock [ Matt Woodfield's and Stuart Llewelyns one] if your only visiting now and then - the topos just makes route finding much easier compared to the Gower and S. E Wales guide.

In reply to Matt88:

Nothing beats a little bit of harmless self-promotion!

Seriously though, Gower Rock is a very good selective guide. Matt and Stuart are local lads and they've done a cracking job. http://www.ukclimbing.com/gear/review.php?id=5153
I would also second the advice to only buy the definitive guide (which is a good read in itself if you like dry-as-dust humour) if you're intending to climb there a lot.

Dave

In reply to Dave Williams:
I have the definitive guide and its ok as long as you have a map to locoate the crags, but yeah I much prefer more modern photo topo guides

Its funny how easily you forget but with most the old style guides it used to take a couple of visits to many crags before you got your bearings. Everything was left of something else!

In reply to CurlyStevo:

The new Gower guide looks great, but what does one do if one wants to climb at Ogmore too?

In reply to andrew(willy)wilson:

the person with matt in his name isnt one of the authors, different matt. I am one of them though. thanks for the kind words chaps on our book.

For ogmore buy the swmc guide. Its unlikely youll climb both venues on the same day?

In reply to seankenny:

If you want to climb at Ogmore, you can buy the SWMC guide (and as I'm on the SWMC committee, I guess I should push it, especially as we've only got a few hundered copies left) or you could go to the SWMC wiki and look at the excellent topos for Ogmore:

http://www.southwalesmountaineering.org.uk/g_book/index.php/Ogmore

In reply to gramee: Agreed, just been for 2 weeks with the family and it was a great guide to use.