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Indoor and Outdoor Venues.

This page will hopefully contain details of a variety of venues for drytooling. Please get in touch via the form below if you know of any climbing walls, facilities or crags where drytooling takes place, and we will try to make it as complete as possible. Note that NO RESPONSIBILITY is taken by us for either the reporting of venues, access issues or anything that may cause injury or worse to participants.

CLIMBING WALLS

Blackpool: Blackpool climbing towers.
climbingtowers@blackpool.gov.uk 01253 349749
Awesome structure that has set-aside drytooling sessions.

The Beacon, Llanberis.
info@beaconclimbing.com 0845 450 8222
Great indoor wall that now offers drytooling sessions on Fridays.

High Sports centres:
Redhill, Reigate etc. 01293 822884    
Very helpful staff, offering dedicated areas at some of their centres in the south of England.

The Ice factor, Kinlochleven
. info@ice-factor.co.uk 01855 831100
Dry tooling available in bouldering room on vertical & 45 degree overhanging wall. Dedicated tooling route on outdoor tower subject to availability, please enquire
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Awesome Walls Liverpool. liverpool@awesomewalls.co.uk  0151 2982422
Dedicated dry tooling room with 8 lines 7m high. Open at all times.

Big Rock, Milton Keynes

Big Rock climbing centre in Milton Keynes is now offering Dry Tooling sessions. Full info here http://
www.bigrockclimbing.co.uk/section.php/180/1/dry-tooling-sessions

Keswick Climbing wall
We have a permanent dry tooling wall set up for the winter. There are 6 lines, netted off, chains, logs and plenty of routes to try. Ideal for keeping fit for winter.
www.keswickclimbingwall.co.uk



CRAGS

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE INCLUSION OF ANY VENUE BELOW DOES NOT INDICATE A RIGHT OF ACCESS NOR OF TOLERATION OF DRYTOOLING. ALL CRAGS ARE INCLUDED WITH THE BEST OF INTENTIONS FROM INFORMATION SUPPLIED BY THIRD PARTIES.

Birnam (north of Perth), Newtyle Quarry.

An established drytooling venue with routes from M4 to M12. Details of how to get there and some of the routes are available from Scottish Climbs.com


White Goods, North Wales.

A drytooling venue with quite a number of routes on that reportedly change 'character' quite often. Full details from UKclimbing.com


Telscombe beach cliffs.

Description (as submitted): Loads of sport-style routes have been put up here over the past ten years or so. It's still chalk so it's still pretty dodgy but there are warthogs, bits of fence post and even the occasional bolt in-situ so it's not as wild & dangerous as you might otherwise think. Routes graded C3 - C10 (chalk grades), where Cx is roughly equivalent to Mx or, in some cases, WIx. Very good low-level traverses too. Details in the new edition of Southern Sandstone guide. Non tidal to the west of the path. Park in the Badger's Watch pub car park at BN10 7BE and follow the tarmaced path down to the beach - past the nudists sign!

Ballachulish Bridge, Glencoe
A tiny granite buttress sitting directly underneath the south side of the A82 bridge, it offers a handful of short (10-15m) routes for trad or dry-tooling practise, which stay dry even in the rain.
30 seconds walk from outside the Ballachulish hotel on the A828, situated directly underneath the A82 bridge. http://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/crag.php?id=9956

Ravelston/ Blackhall quarry
Still very much a work in progress, lots of loose rock removed. As yet still unbolted and really completely unprotectable. Good trees at the top of belays though. Its hard sand stone covered in lichen. No posibility of rock climbing on the lines we are working on and no one has climbed this quarry or is likely to want to. Lots of potential as a great tooling venue. Routes 10-15 m Good range on difficulties, no confirmed grades as yet poss D4-D8?

Edinburgh Blackhall/ Ravelston Woods. Quarry is easiest to access from North, through the woods at Craigcrook Road at the park there is a path on the far right hand corner of the park that leads up into the woods, as you enter the woods the quarry is easily visable as is access to the top further to the right.


If you know of any suitable venues, please drop us a line using the form below and we will get it up on the website as soon as possible.

 







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