There is some decent limestone bouldering in the Furness area, although it is hardly worth making a special trip for. If you are in the region, or in the South West Lakes and looking for a bad weather escape, give it a try. The four venues covered here are very traditional and have been used by Barrow and South Lakes based climbers as evening training venues for aeons. All of the bouldering is on limestone, some of it quarried and some natural, and the bouldering is generally fingery stuff on vertical walls.
Order | Climb | Buttress | Stars | Grade |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
The Traverse | Humphrey Head Bouldering | 2 | f5+ |
2 |
The Corner Crack | Humphrey Head Bouldering | f3 | |
3 |
The Layback Corner | Humphrey Head Bouldering | f4 5a | |
4 |
The Diagonal Crack | Humphrey Head Bouldering | f4+ 5b | |
5 |
The Low Traverse | Humphrey Head Bouldering | f6B | |
6 |
Roof Corner | Humphrey Head Bouldering | 1 | f5+ 6a |
7 |
Pocket Problem | Humphrey Head Bouldering | 1 | f6A |
8 |
Trad Crack | Humphrey Head Bouldering | 1 | f5+ 6a |
9 |
Crinkle Wall | Humphrey Head Bouldering | f6A | |
10 |
End Wall | Humphrey Head Bouldering | f4 5a | |
1 |
Intro 1 | Dunnerholme | f3+ 4c | |
2 |
Intro 2 | Dunnerholme | f3+ 4c | |
3 |
1st Wall | Dunnerholme | f5+ 6a | |
4 |
1st Crack | Dunnerholme | f5 5b | |
5 |
Problem 5 | Dunnerholme | 1 | f6B |
6 |
2nd Crack | Dunnerholme | f5 5b | |
7 |
Problem 7 | Dunnerholme | f5 5b | |
8 |
The Traverse | Dunnerholme | 1 | f6A |
9 |
Thin Wall | Dunnerholme | f6A | |
10 |
Hairline Crack | Dunnerholme | f5+ 6a | |
11 |
The Arete | Dunnerholme | 2 | f4+ 5b |
12 |
Double Dyno | Dunnerholme | f6A | |
13 |
The Wall | Dunnerholme | f4+ 5b | |
14 |
Wide Crack Left-hand | Dunnerholme | f5+ 6a | |
15 |
Wide Crack Right-hand | Dunnerholme | f5+ 6a | |
16 |
Little Arete | Dunnerholme | f5 5b | |
17 |
The Full Traverse | Dunnerholme | 2 | f6C |
18 |
Green Dot Traverse | Dunnerholme | 2 | f7A+ |
19 |
The Sloper Traverse | Dunnerholme | 2 | f6B |
20 |
Overhang Left | Dunnerholme | f4+ 5b | |
21 |
Overhang Right | Dunnerholme | f6C | |
22 |
Wall End Middle | Dunnerholme | f5 5c | |
23 |
Wall End Left | Dunnerholme | f5 5c | |
1 |
North Slab | Birkrigg | f3 | |
2 |
High Traverse | Birkrigg | f5+ 5c | |
3 |
Low Traverse | Birkrigg | 1 | f5+ 5c |
4 |
North Wall | Birkrigg | f4+ 5b | |
5 |
Problem 5 | Birkrigg | f4 5a | |
6 |
North Crack | Birkrigg | f4 5a | |
7 |
North Buttress | Birkrigg | 1 | f5 5c |
8 |
Birks Corner | Birkrigg | f4 5a |
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