Scrambles in the Dark Peak (eBook)

Easy summer scrambles and winter climbs

Terry Sleaford, Tom Corker (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024 | 2. Auflage
192 Seiten
Cicerone Press (Verlag)
978-1-78362-664-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Guidebook to 41 graded scrambles in the Dark Peak and Roaches areas of the Peak District, most of which can be done year round. Includes areas such as Kinder Scout, the Wilderness Gullies and Bleaklow, and features both classic (Wilderness Gully East and Wildboar Clough) and lesser known routes. Link routes, variants and extensions also described.

Autor

Born, bred and still living in Nottingham, Terry Sleaford gained significant British climbing experience in his 20s, including on snow and ice. Later in life his passion became mountain walking and scrambling. He has spent many days on these crags and moors over the last 45 years. Tom Corker has been walking and climbing in the Peak District for over 50 years. He has extensive experience of British and Alpine mountaineering in both summer and winter. He has developed a great affection for the Peak District moorland at all times of the year and in all weathers.

Inhalt

OS key

Overview map

Preface

Introduction

Scrambling in the Dark Peak

Warnings and precautions

Equipment

Maps

About the routes

Access

Conservation



The Chew Valley area

1 Rimmon Pit Clough/Trinnacle/Holme Clough

2 Alderman's Rocks

3 Dovestone Quarry Central Gully

4 Charnel Clough



The Wilderness Gullies

5 Wilderness Gully West

6 Wilderness Gully East

7 Wilderness Gully Far East

8 Wilderness Gully Far Far East

9 Wilderness Gully Far Far Far East

10 Chew Brook



The Crowden area

11 Oaken Clough

12 Coombes Clough



Bleaklow

13 Shining Clough

14 Deer Knowl

15 Lawrence Edge No 1

16 Lawrence Edge No 2

17 Wildboar Clough

18 Torside Clough

19 Torside Gully

20 Yellowslacks Brook/Dowstone Clough

21 Ashton Clough

22 Alport Castles Tower

23 Alport Castles Gully



Kinder Scout

24 Blackden Brook

25 Fair Brook

26 Fair Brook Gully

27 Nether Red Brook

28 Upper Red Brook

29 Far Upper Red Brook

30 Square Chimney Exit

31 Kinder Downfall Climb

32 Arpeggio Gully

33 Red Brook

34 Crowden Clough

35 Grindsbrook Clough

36 Ringing Roger



Outlying areas

37 Back Tor Gully

38 Mam Tor Gully

39 Elbow Ridge

40 Roaches Lower and Upper Tier Ridges

41 Chrome Hill/Parkhouse Hill



Appendix A Index of routes

Appendix B Further reading

Appendix C Useful contacts

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.11.2024
• Zusatzinfo: Over 50 maps and topos and 60 colour photos
• Verlagsort: Kendal
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Schlagworte: Bleaklow • Chew • Kinder Scout • Peak District • roaches • Walk • Wildboar Clough • Wilderness Gullies
• ISBN-10: 1-78362-664-X / 178362664X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78362-664-9 / 9781783626649