The peregrines are nesting on Hen Cloud again. Please don’t climb between Nutted by Reality to Easy Gully, page 82 to 85 Western Grit. The Peak District National Park Authority will monitor the nest and lift the restriction early if the chicks fledge early.

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• Sample chapter – Ravensdale

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We have produced a PDF catalogue of all current Rockfax print publications. This lists all our current books as well as forthcoming publications. It also includes a map of our books – see image to the right.

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We have produced a couple of free posters to support the book which use Sophie Mitchell’s excellent drawings. These can be freely downloaded and printed off for display at climbing walls or anywhere else.

• Download Poster 1 – Pre-climb Check
• Download Poster 2 – The Belay Sequence

Two free posters from the Beginners' Guide for Climbers

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In December 2010 we launched UKBoltFund.org with a view to increasing the profile of the various small bolt funds set up around the country by keen local climbers. The idea was to try and bring together these funds into a central location that can then be easily promoted across UKClimbing.com, Rockfax and anywhere else that wishes to. We included a click tracker on the donations to give us a rough idea of how many people actually clicked on ‘Donate’ once they had reached the site. Obviously this doesn’t mean that the person necessarily went through with the donation but it is an indication and with over 600 clicks I suspect that a fair bit of money has been raised as well as plenty more awareness of the funds. We also received some good feedback from some of the climbers who run the funds that there had been a spike in donations.

A year and a half on and I thought I’d check up on what the state was with the funds. You can read the replies in this article on UKClimbing.com.

To further enhance the coverage of  UKBoltFund.org we have added links to all the pages on the Rockfax site pointing at the relevant bolt fund for the areas they cover, we are running banners on UKC and Rockfax web sites and including information about bolt funds in the books.

Despite the fact that the web address is UKBoltFund, I would welcome approaches from climbers in Spain or France who run a bolt fund that we can start supporting and promoting to people who use UKClimbing.com, the Rockfax web site and Rockfax guidebooks.

The second addition is the ability to search on Route Name direct from the home page using the search box on the right. This is a quick way to go straight to any route you have climbed to find comments, give feedback or vote on stars and grades. The search on the main database pages is also no longer limited to a specific region.

Peak Limestone - due May 2012

The new edition of Peak Limestone is now available for pre-order from this web site at a special offer price of £21.95 (RRP £24.95).

Offer now finished.

Pre-order your copy now to take advantage of this special offer and to ensure that you receive the book as soon as possible after it is published. This will be the fastest way to get hold of a copy of the book, in fact you might even get it before we do since the main delivery goes straight to the warehouse before being moved on to Rockfax base in Sheffield.

• Buy now 
• More about the book here
• Read the book Introduction Pages
• Sample chapter – Ravensdale

Some numbers about the book:

• Pages – 408 (Peak section of Northern Limestone 2004 – 237)
• Crags – 32 (Northern Limestone 2004 – 24)
• Routes – 2381 (NL 2004 – 1619)

“Follow the road for 3.8 km as it winds up into the urbanisation to reach a large supermarket on the left.”
The 3.8km doesn’t start until you actually enter the complex, by the information centre. Shortly after the entrance is a 3-way fork, take the middle road.

To go to the West and South Faces
Description corrected/clarified as follows (the map is correct):
Turn left about 100m past the supermarket, just after a pharmacy. Turn right at the second junction – a roundabout marked “Pueblo de la Paz”. Follow this street; at a 4-way junction, take the 2nd road from the right (ie roughly straight on). At a sharp (hairpin) left bend, drive straight on down a short cul-de-sac between two houses, with open land at the end. Park here. From the parking, take a narrow track but leave this after 10m and head right, parallel to the back wall of the houses, heading for the right of a small knoll. Follow the path that becomes visible as soon as you start going downhill.

- The Rockfax page on Wolverine web site

When the France : Languedoc Roussillon book was published, quite a lot of the climbing in the Gorges du Tarn was closed due to an incident involving a bolt failing on a route on the Tennessee sector. A number of routes were subsequently de-bolted to avoid further accidents and a plan was put in place to replace these bolts with more suitable fittings during the winter and spring of 2012.

Olivier has told us that this work is about to restart and he estimates that it should be finished by June 2012. He said the most popular sectors will be rebolted first.

He also said that the path work at Gorges du Jonte (reported here) has now been completed and the access path is open again, however, climbers should not stray from the path since there is still a lot of unstable rock around this area.