Dry Tooling of Great Britain Guidebook

Description

This is a comprehensive guidebook covering 26 dry-tooling crags throughout the Scotland, Wales, and England. Dry Tooling has become a popular form of climbing in its own right, and in recent years has seen a huge surge of new dry tooling crags across the UK.  This dry-tooling guidebook describes more than 350 routes, with grades ranging from D2 to D13.

The crags covered in this guidebook offer an incredible variety of climbing, from natural slabs to soaring roofs, and from powerful traverses to delicate overlaps.  The climbing is on a wide variety of different rock types across the full length and breadth of the country.

All the routes are shown on colour photo topos, along with detailed access maps for all the crags.

The 26 different crags are as follows:

WEST SCOTLAND: Leacanashie Woods Crag, Shiel Ring Quarry, Creag Dubh na Caillich, Dubh-Ghlac (Onich Slabs)
EAST SCOTLAND: Aviemore Quarry, Newtonhill Cave, Newtyle Quarry, Ravelston Quarry
NORTHEAST ENGLAND: The Cove
CUMBRIA: The Works, Bakestone Quarry
PEAK DISTRICT: Digley Quarry, Masson Lees
NORTH WALES: Penmon Point (Trwyn Penmon), Gideon Quarries, Never Never Land, Clogwyn Mannod, Clogwyn y Fuwch
CLWYD: White Goods, Llanymynech Quarry
SOUTH WALES: Nash Point
EAST ANGLIA: Fen Ditton Railway Bridge (The Wa’s)
DEVON & DORSET: Sugary Cove, Winspit
SOUTHEAST ENGLAND: Saltdean, Newhaven (Fort Chalk)

Published in December 2023 by the Oxford Alpine Club it is packed with many stunning action shots.

Number of pages is 192.
Size is 150mm x 210mm (A5).
ISBN is 9781913167158.