Dumbarton Rock Climbing Guidebook
This is a comprehensive guidebook covering the bouldering, traditional climbing and sport climbing at Dumbarton Rock. Known to locals as 'Dumby', this is lowland Scotland's premier rock-climbing venue, with easy access from Glasgow. Dumbarton Rock has a reputation for hard and technical climbing, and is home to famous routes such as Chemin de Fer, Requiem and Rhapsody.
There is also a collection of giant boulders at Dumbarton, which offer over 300 documented problems across a wide range of grades. These range from easy to Fb8ās, with problems such as Pongo, Sabotage, Pressure, Sanction and Gutbuster being amongst Scotland's world-class bouldering test pieces. Detailed are 4 Fontainebleau style bouldering circuits, ranging in difficulty from orange, then blue, red, and then black being the hardest circuit.
The guidebook covers 100+ trad and sport routes, plus 300+ boulder problems. All routes and boulder problems are shown on colour photo topos along with a description.
This Dumbarton rock climbing guidebook was published in July 2020 by Stone Country Press.
Number of pages is 160.
Size is 111mm x 178mm
ISBN is 9780992887629.
Description
This is a comprehensive guidebook covering the bouldering, traditional climbing and sport climbing at Dumbarton Rock. Known to locals as 'Dumby', this is lowland Scotland's premier rock-climbing venue, with easy access from Glasgow. Dumbarton Rock has a reputation for hard and technical climbing, and is home to famous routes such as Chemin de Fer, Requiem and Rhapsody.
There is also a collection of giant boulders at Dumbarton, which offer over 300 documented problems across a wide range of grades. These range from easy to Fb8ās, with problems such as Pongo, Sabotage, Pressure, Sanction and Gutbuster being amongst Scotland's world-class bouldering test pieces. Detailed are 4 Fontainebleau style bouldering circuits, ranging in difficulty from orange, then blue, red, and then black being the hardest circuit.
The guidebook covers 100+ trad and sport routes, plus 300+ boulder problems. All routes and boulder problems are shown on colour photo topos along with a description.
This Dumbarton rock climbing guidebook was published in July 2020 by Stone Country Press.
Number of pages is 160.
Size is 111mm x 178mm
ISBN is 9780992887629.
