Outcrop Films have released another trailer for their hotly anticipated UK Bouldering film "Life on Hold". Following the best of British and visiting bouldering talent around the UK, climbing the hardest and highest problems it promises to be a fantastic film capturing a really exciting time in the UK bouldering scene
This web site holds local climbing information for the area around Huddersfield, in Kirklees West Yorkshire, currently it covers 2 of the major venues and 4 smaller ones. The ongoing aim is to expand this coverage to all the other crags in the area.
Constructive comment is always welcome.
Any additional information on existing and new venues will be gratefully received and can be added to the site, see the Contact button at the top right of this page or click here
Parking at Holmfirth Cliff
At the recent meeting with the owners of the crag, local residents and climbers the issue of parking on Cliff Road was raised again.
Climbers were asked to be more careful when parking not to block drive ways or park in front of people houses.
When visiting Cliff please park away from the houses at the foot of the track as the residents there have problems parking.
There is plenty of parking back up Cliff Road towards its junction with Cliff Lane, which is better, away from any houses and also provides a little warm up walk in.
The BMC
The British Mountaineering Council have a great website with load of useful information and advice.
Every climber should seriously consider being a member and contributing to the great work they do:
Click on the logo above or the link below for more information.
Woodhead MRT
When you have an accident or get into trouble on the hill or at the crag it's mountain rescue that come to your aid.
Woodhead Mountain Rescue Team relies on donations from the public for the upkeep of vehicles, equipment and vital medicines.
All donations are gratefully received. There are various ways to donate, see the website for more details.
Grades
On this site we are moving over to the Font system of bouldering grades. This is being done for a number of reasons, the main one being that for venues with the majority of problems in the low grades the Font system works better and is clearer than the V grade system. Previously we've used a combination of the V grade and the UK tech grade which can be confusing. The forthcoming Yorkshire Mountaineering Club Gritstone guidebook, which features some crags in the area, will also be using Font grades.
Any routes on the guides will be graded using the UK adjective grade and technical grade as before. Using Font grades for boulder problems and UK adjective & Tech for routes also distinguishes between the 2 types of climbs more clearly
Site Sponsorship
Kirklees Climbing has been lucky enough to acquire some site sponsorship from Beyond Hope http://www.beyondhope.co.uk/ the UK distributor for Evolv, Metolius and Prana, amongst others.
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Look out in the New Year for more exciting developments on this front as we start running some great competitions with climbing gear and clothing prizes!
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Outcrop Films - Life On Hold - Trailer 2
Monday, 23 January, 2012 - 14:48
Easy Problems at Holmfirth Cliff
A nice little video from Luke while he was testing out his new camera and video editing skills.
Shows some of the easier problems on Cliff
Monday, 19 December, 2011 - 09:42
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