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Review
An excellent selected guide to Rock Climbing in Scotland, due now for a re-print - this edition might be hard to come across.
Covers all of the popular areas in Scotland.
Details transport, accomodation, restrictions, history, geology and each crag has a midge rating!
Clear diagrams and good route descriptions make this the
perfect book for those discovering Scotish Rock for the first time, or not wanting to spend a fortune on many definitive guides.
Aberdeenshire crags | # climbs | Rocktype | Faces |
---|---|---|---|
Ben Macdui - Creagan a' Choire Etchachan | 91 | Granite | all |
Fulmar Wall | 30 | Granite | SE |
Graymare Slabs (Grey Mare) | 33 | Granite | E |
Lochnagar | 329 | Granite | all |
Pass of Ballater | 297 | Granite | S |
Angus crags | # climbs | Rocktype | Faces |
Red Craig (Glen Clova) | 215 | Diorites | W |
Argyll and Bute crags | # climbs | Rocktype | Faces |
Creag a' Bhancair | 38 | Rhyolite | W |
Glen Croe | 65 | Mica schist | S |
The Brack | 41 | Mica schist | E |
The Cobbler | 163 | Mica schist | all |
Arran crags | # climbs | Rocktype | Faces |
A'Chir | 43 | Granite | all |
Beinn Nuis | 13 | Granite | all |
Rosa Slabs | 24 | Granite | W |
Hebrides crags | # climbs | Rocktype | Faces |
Sròn Uladail (Strone Ulladale) | 54 | Gneiss | W |
Uig Sea Cliffs Central - Mhangarstaidh | 317 | Gneiss | all |
Highland crags | # climbs | Rocktype | Faces |
Aonach Eagach - Sgorr nam Fiannaidh | 26 | Rhyolite | all |
Ben Nevis | 523 | Andesite | all |
Bidean nam Bian | 92 | Rhyolite | all |
Bidean nam Bian - Stob Coire nan Lochan | 105 | Andesite | all |
Binnein Shuas | 61 | Microgranite | all |
Buachaille Etive Mor | 316 | Rhyolite | all |
Carnmore Crag | 100 | Gneiss | S |
Diabaig | 106 | Gneiss | W |
Sgurr a' Chaorachain | 42 | Sandstone (hard) | all |
Isle of Skye crags | # climbs | Rocktype | Faces |
---|---|---|---|
Bla Bheinn | 49 | Gabbro | all |
Neist | 555 | Dolerite | SW |
Sron na Ciche | 149 | Gabbro | NW |
Moray crags | # climbs | Rocktype | Faces |
Hell's Lum | 102 | Granite | SE |
Shelterstone Crag | 84 | Granite | NE |
Orkney Islands crags | # climbs | Rocktype | Faces |
(Old Man of) Hoy | 10 | Sandstone (hard) | ? |
Perthshire crags | # climbs | Rocktype | Faces |
Dunkeld, Cave Crag | 137 | Schist | SW |
Polney Crag (Craig a Barns) | 117 | Schist | SW |
Ross & Cromarty crags | # climbs | Rocktype | Faces |
Old Man of Stoer | 7 | Sandstone (hard) | ? |
Stac Pollaidh | 91 | Sandstone (hard) | all |
Sutherland crags | # climbs | Rocktype | Faces |
Am Buachaille | 5 | Sandstone (soft) | all |
Foinaven - Ganu Mor | 122 | Quartzite | all |
West Dunbartonshire crags | # climbs | Rocktype | Faces |
Dumbarton Rock | 444 | Basalt | NW |