New Crag at Blackwell
Halt
Tales of secret
crags used to be legion. You would ask
someone in the cafe where they were
going and the reply
"Crag X,
and I am not telling you where it
is."
Well now there is
a real Crag X that has recently finished
being developed. The location is not
a closely guarded anymore. Predictably
most of the route names have something
to do with an X.
Blackwell Halt
This is a newly
developed Derbyshire Sport crag with a
rare commodity in the UK -- mid grade
sport routes. The remarkable thing about
the crag is that it is in Cheedale, a
new crag in the hot bed of Derbyshire
climbing, and you can see it looking left
from the lay-by above Topley Pike on the
A6 Buxton Road. There are eighteen routes
from 6a+ to 6c+, and its about time there
were some easier grade sport routes available.
Appropriately enough for an Internet site
to report the routes mainly have a computer
theme. All the climbs have double bolt
lower offs and the crag catches the sun
until mid afternoon.
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