climbing
oddments

below are various
climbing oddments

not enough to warrant
their own page

but items that
I wanted to add to my site
on the web

Where I chose to Climb

most of the climbs
(outside of the Peak)
are found in the book
Classic Rock

"Classic" rock
or as it is often called
"100 most crowded"
with some of the routes found in
"hard Rock"

ten other routes I recommend
(that I have climbed them all,
I am not just copying
from a book are) 

The Cuillin Ridge
~ Isle of Skye
(see Skye page)

Agag's Grove
~ Buachille Etive Mor
~ Scotland

Bowfell Buttress
~ Bowfel
~ The Lakes

Napes Needle
~ Great gable
~ The Lakes

Main Wall
~ Cyrn Lass
~ Snowdonia

Flying Buttress
~ Dinnas Cromlech
~ Snowdonia

Direct Route
~ Tryfan
Snowdonia climbing

Poor Mans Peutery
~ Tremadoc
~ Snowdonia

Dawn Walk
~ Avon Gorge

Commando Ridge & Ochre Slab II
~ Bosigran ~ Cornwall

Scavenger
~ Three Cliffs
~ The Gower

this is the first known picture
of me climbing
it was taken in the Lake District
and was on a week's
"Outward Bound"
course that my then employer
sent their apprentices on

climbing qualifications

my rock climbing
qualification
is the British
Mountaineering Council,
Single Pitch Supervisor
Award  or SPSA
for short

(its now had the
Supervisor dropped
and is named the SPA
but obviously the
qualification I hold
is still valid)

my training was in
June 1993

my Assessment was in
October 1994

both were held at
Whitehall Outdoor
Education center,
Buxton

I climbed at Burbage North during my SPSA assessment (although this picture of the same crag was taken recently)

Burbage North

mountaineering
qualifications

to find out more about mountaineering qualifications visit the web site

MLTB ~ Mountain Leader Training Board

more climbing pages soon

UK multi-pitch 
climbing pictures
a few examples of
longer UK climbs

Peak District climbing

a few general sots taken in the Peaks

for rock climbing pictures in the Alps see the Alpine index on the main mountaineering index

main climbing menu

more climbing
pages coming soon

climbing in the
South of England
Cornwall, Devon, Dorset
and even Leicestershire & Northamptonshire !!

climbing walls
climbing on
man made rock !!!