The Yorkshire Bouldering Site - Homepage


Hello and welcome to the Yorkshire Bouldering Site. The premier site for bouldering in Yorkshire...... and you thought Leeds was just a trendy place to go to uni?


This site is going to be dedecated exclusivly to bouldering in Yorkshire. My main aim is to begin a database for new problems. The main reasons for this are that, until now, bouldering has a past riddled with more myths, legends and folklore than Medieval England. What I would like to do, is to begin to move bouldering out of the dark ages and start to begin an accurate history of who did what, when. The other reason for this is that bouldering is seen as a separate form of climbing, not just as a means of training for routes. With the success of the first two guidebooks and the naming of problems now commonplace it opens up a whole new aspect to an already diverse sport.

J P Hotham February 2001

Oliver Wright doing a concientious bit of spotting on the excellent 'Pickpocket's Wall' ,V3 / F6b+, at Widdop.

Pickpocket's Wall
So far there are four sections to this site, including the frontpage:

The New Problems Database: so you can find out about what's new on the crags.

A New Problems Form: to fill in so you become immortalised in the annals of Yorkshire Bouldering for ever. Seriously, though, I am interested in learning about your new problems, there's a lot to go at out there. I'm also interested to learn about any problems that do not appear in the bouldering guide.

A Graded List: I've only included the harder problems so far, due to time, but I intend to add over time to this to make it more comprehensive so that it covers all the grades.

A 'Featured Crag': I intend to feature a different crag every month, or so, depending which particular crisis is hitting the country at the time. The idea here is to give you what I belive are the top ten, or so, best problems accross a range of grades at a particular crag. Obviously this is completely subjective and you'll all have your're own top ten. The idea, though, is to give people a mini-tour of a crag so that they can sample the better problems across the grades. This is meant to be used in conjunction with one of the local guidebooks.

If you've got any comments, ideas, photos etc. then I'd like to hear from you. E-mail me at: jhotham@cwcom.net.

Links

The Leeds Wall Indoor Climbing Centre