Ruby Petch and Solly Kemball Dorey run us through their pick of the Top 10 boulders in the South West, comprising hard boulders (and the occasional one that might be slightly more doable) from Lynmouth all the way down to Boscawen Point.
Be warned though, the approaches to some of these venues are rather adventurous! Nabor Point in particular is unlikely to get crowded, there's also some fine trad climbs here.
Such is the strange nature of bouldering, but then the whole of climbing is quite whacky too. There's a fine VDiff Claire (VD),that goes up the slab just to the left.
At least add all these Top boulders to UKC if'n they're so delectable! They won't be secret crags now there's an article so we needn't keep the logbooks barren. Great pics of the south west! Been lucky enough to sample a few of these by knowing the right people and even snuck up a couple of them.
I'll hassel the boy! The culm problems are already on UKC. The Exmoor stuff there's the website mentioned by Ruby in the article and Tom Bunn and Tom Last should be getting their Cornish bouldering guide out soon...
I’m with you on this! I’ve been hoping for a mega board topo for a while now—doesn’t seem to be online anywhere, and I assume it won’t make it into the Cornwall guide since it’s in Devon.
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