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Used to swarm all over this when I lived in Scotforth. Some very nice problems/solos. Also recall some very good, hard (for me!) problems on here http://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/crag.php?id=1393#photos
Lankyman - 07/Jul/16
I made my first trip there the other day, after visiting the boulders on Rigg Lane and Ottergear quarry, and carried on over the road to Little Cragg. This was the best of the bunch, and it was a shame to only have an hour to explore - will definitely be back soon, even though it's a bit of a puffy cycle from Lancaster. Did you ever map out the crag/specific routes, or know anyone who did? I'm hoping to make a bit of a topo, although one of the attractions is precisely its feeling remote and 'less trodden'...
C Witter - 07/Jul/16
Never seemed to me like the kind of place to produce topos for - but I don't have a boulderering 'mentality'. Having said that, I did used to do all kinds of variations and eliminates to add interest to visits. I only ever saw other people occasionally and never much chalk. People have been going here for years though and it's mentioned in the 1975 Lancs guide (as 'Quernmore Crag ..... scarcely worth the 100yd walk ...'!). It is worth it just for the view of Morecambe Bay alone!
Lankyman - 08/Jul/16
I know what you mean - I guess I like the idea of producing a bit of a map more as an enjoyable personal project, and for the bathetic character of such an endeavour, rather than because I'm hoping to attract the beanied masses to the place. Particularly as I'm not a hard climber, being something of a newbie, and so there are some obvious problems - like the overhanging start to the tower - that I might not be able to do anyway.
I'd love to be climbing in the Lakes or the Peak, but, being penniless, car-less and keener than my climbing partners, cycling around the Lancaster area on my own and exploring under-appreciated places like Warton, Fairy Steps, Windy Clough, and so on, is what I mostly end up doing. Somehow I have to turn that into a virtue - not a particularly difficult task when, as you say, places like Baines Cragg are so beautiful.
Thanks for the info!
C Witter - 08/Jul/16
I'd love to be climbing in the Lakes or the Peak, but, being penniless, car-less and keener than my climbing partners, cycling around the Lancaster area on my own and exploring under-appreciated places like Warton, Fairy Steps, Windy Clough, and so on, is what I mostly end up doing. Somehow I have to turn that into a virtue - not a particularly difficult task when, as you say, places like Baines Cragg are so beautiful.
Thanks for the info!