FREE GUIDE: Rock + Run Guided Tours #1

As promised earlier in the year we have put together a neat little selected bouldering guide for the excellent climbing in and around Thorn Crag, north Lancashire. This is the first in a collection of routes and bouldering guides we plan to put together (time permitting) and offer as a free download on our in house blog, so keep tabs on the site for more lovely free info.

A crag of superlative weatherworn gritstone tucked away in splendid isolation upon the rugged high moors of the wild and beautiful Trough of Bowland, yet only twenty minutes from the motorway. Despite the ease of access it is easy to feel like you’ve stepped straight into the set of Heartbeat as you leave the modern world behind and slip in to this golden backwater circuit of unique quality. The crag faces South and takes all the sun going; as a result most of the problems, bar some beneath the crag itself, are clean and dry quickly. On a fine day it commands an unrivaled view of the Morecambe Bay area and all the way to Blackpool tower.

Five circuits, of over eighty problems have been well worked out and all contain some intriguing lines on a pale fine grained gritstone, which has a lot fewer crystals and pebbles than its Yorkshire and Peak counterparts. As with most gritstone, winter conditions are essential for the harder problems, but the crag is a great place to climb year round. There is something for everyone here amongst the 80+ problems; from delectably delicate easy slabs to the utmost in desperate sloper-slapping burl...



Read more about the crag and get psyched for a visit with this freely downloadable guide:
Bowland Bloc Sport (PDF Guide)