Hello,
the Guernsey Mountaineering Club are organising a climbing festival of sorts on the August bank holiday weekend this year. As it's our first crack it's going to be fairly low key - we will be renting a farmers field about 10 minutes walk from the main crags and providing a fire, mess tent or two to shelter in if the weather's naff and toilet tent. There's a small hotel down the road which does good value bar meals, restaurant food, B&B and has two bars. We can offer you cheap/free camping, climbing partners/guides, boulder mats, ab ropes, transport to and from the crag and harbour/airport and other helpful stuff I can't think of right now. Basically we want people to come over and enjoy a day's climbing on good rock & have a swim in the sea before sharing experiences and stories round the fire or in the pub afterwards. Repeat. Go home sunburnt and happy.
Climbing-wise, everything is sea cliff trad on gneiss & granite. Mostly single pitch up to 90feet, but there are longer pitches and multi-pitches too. Plenty of bouldering. Friction is usually excellent/aggressive, polish is non-existent. Rock quality varies as you'd expect on seacliffs. Grades go up to E7 & V9 with a couple of harder projects. There's about 1100 or so routes to go at. Walk-ins are normally in the region of 10 minutes max from the nearest carpark. Martin Crocker liked it so much he kept coming back for holidays and put up a hundred routes.
Anybody interested? It's also the Vale Earth Fair music festival that weekend amongst other events. It takes ~20/30 minutes to get from one end of the island to the other. Gettign to the island - fly from Gatwick/Stansted/Soton/Bristol/Manchester/birmingham, ferry from Poole or Weymouth.
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