SPOT THE BOULDER!



September's boulder lies little more than 20 miles (as the crow flies) from Sheffield and from Leeds). It offers a 20m traverse on rough grit slopers; a grand pump!
The views are superb; looking down from (almost) on the Pennine watershed, more than one other gritstone climbing area can be seen below. And yet it's only a 2 second approach from the road.

Where is it?
Buckstones. The boulder lying above the A649 Outlane to Denshaw road (GR 015137) See Climbing and Bouldering Guide to the Huddersfield Area by Paul Perkins (2002)

The route description:

Circumnavigate the great slanting block clockwise.
Start on easy ground behind the boulder.
Swing downhill on slopers in the low break,
feet on the backwall (5c)
Pull through to a rest in the niche at the
downhill point of the boulder.
Traverse left (crux) around the lowest point,
feet on the lip, not on the boulders/backwall beneath (6a/6b).
Finish uphill, along the rising break on the left sidewall.
Pull over the corner of the top overhang to finish.







Grade: V4