An evening climbing at Wilton quarry

The gritstone quarries at Wilton have quality single-pitch climbing routes to go at throughout the grades and are easily accessible for an evening climbing from Manchester, Liverpool, Preston and Blackburn.  There are several quarries (numbered 1 - 4), and they are generally reasonably sheltered from the wind.  For this event we plan to climb at Wilton 3.  An overview of the routes at the crag is available at ukclimbing here:  https://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/crags/wilton_3-330/

We will meet at 6pm at the car parking, and the crag is a short walk from there.  The event end time is 20:30 but if it is warm and we feel like it some of us may decide to climb later into the evening.  If you have one, bring a torch for the walk back to the road in case some attendees decide to push the limits of daylight hours :-)  But in any case we will have some spare torches with us.  Any attendee who wishes to join us afterwards for a drink at the nearby Wilton Arms pub is welcome.

Members should understand that rock climbing is weather dependant – more so than some other outdoor activities.  If the weather forecast is poor it may be necessary to reschedule, move or cancel the event.  I will message all participants as early as possible in this case to keep people informed.

Required experience

To attend this event you must have climbed indoors before (preferably with outdoorlads) and be competent at lead belaying and at tying in with a figure-of-8 knot.

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