Due to late nesting sea-birds on the eastern arete area please avoid the routes "Fallout" to Gstelli" inclusive until the end of August . The birds are Fulmars and can be very aggressive and will vomit foul smelling puke over climbers close to the nest ...so it's in our best interest to avoid these routes until the birds have fledged! The routes affected are also pretty poor!
Dates: 1 May to 31 July
Reason: Nesting Birds
In addition to the advice regarding nesting Fulmars above, The BMC has been informed by the NT that they wish to impose a seasonal restriction ".... due to the presence of ‘cavity-nesting’ Common Swifts* using the cracks in this face. As a minimum the routes ‘Reptiles and Samurai’, ‘Isis’, ‘Horus’, and ‘Rhea’ need to close until 1st August".
The BMC does not normally agree to seasonal restrictions for nesting Swifts but crag nesting Swifts are very scarce and the species has seen significant decline in populations in recent years. We have been infomed by the NT that they "want the routes listed below at Lewes Castle closed until 1st August. The decline in breeding population of Common Swifts is very worrying".
No climbing on the routes "Reptiles and Samurai" to "Rhea" inclusive fro May 1st until August 1st.
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Tall Oak | 11 Jul, 2022 |
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βeta: Love the swallowing of loads of chunky gear. Nice way to finish too. | βeta? | |
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βeta: Love the swallowing of loads of chunky gear. Nice way to finish too. |
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brownhenley | 25 Jul, 2019 |
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βeta: We climbed this route in Scotch mist and found some holds near the roof to be slippery. The rest of the route had wonderful friction and maybe the tufa-like holds under the roof would be fine in dry weather. | βeta? | |
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βeta: We climbed this route in Scotch mist and found some holds near the roof to be slippery. The rest of the route had wonderful friction and maybe the tufa-like holds under the roof would be fine in dry weather. |
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