CULM AND BAGGY

It has been almost twenty years since the last definitive guide to this area. In that time we have seen the development of a number of new lower grade (S – HVS) venues, the country’s first E11 (quickly downgraded to E9) and an explosion of bouldering including possibly the world’s hardest crack problem. This guide attempts to document all this with detailed phototopos and some fine action shots. The best of the bouldering in the area are included.

Extensively researched by local activists with many years of rock-climbing experience in the region. Lead author Mark Kemball has been climbing in the area since the late 80s.

Contributors: Mark Davies (Baggy Point and Sloo Slabs), Mark Garland (Clovelly Slab, Smoothlands, Damehole Point, Dyer’s Lookout and Screda Point), Stu Bradbury (Exmansworthy, Cow and Calf, Smoothlands Great Slab, Hartland Quay and Lower Sharpnose), Mike Thorpe (Knapps Longpeak, Foxhold Slabs and Hippa Rock), James Mann (Marsland), Joel Perkins senior (Vicarage Cliff), Richard “Mosseee” Moss (The Prom, Maer Cliff, Crooklets, and Millook) and Mark “Macca” McManus (Upton, and Arrowhead Pinnacle area plus help with the Northcott bouldering and Compass Point).