This page is still being developed. If you would like to see any particular pages here, please use the feedback link on the homepage. I've tried to keep it to sites having local interest or relevance.
- Climbing Websites
- Magazines
- Guidebooks
- Lake District bouldering
- Local climbing clubs
- Climbing walls
- Gear shops
- Learn to Climb
- Local Instructors
- Learn to climb
- Gear
- Weather
- General outdoors stuff
Climbing Websites
- UKClimbing - Extensive world-wide crag details, lively forum and extensive databases.
- Rockfax - Up-to-date details of crags from around the world
- UK Crags - not as extensive as UKClimbing, but the original and still widely used.
- ExpeditionQuest - An online community for explorers and adventurers.
Magazines
Guidebooks
- FRCC - Complete guides to climbing in the Lake District
- Rockfax - A wide range of selective climbing guides from around the world.
- Climber's Club - covers all of the South West and Wales
Lakes Bouldering
- Lakes Bloc - Excellent site, loads of downloadable topos for major areas in Cumbria
- Lakes Bouldering - small online guide to three areas in the west lakes
- FRCC Guide to Bouldering in the Lake District
- Lake District Bouldering guide
Guidebooks
Local Climbing Clubs
- Fell and Rock Climbing Club
- Kendal Mountaineering Club
- West Cumbria Mountaineering Club
- Keswick Mountaineering Club
- Eden Valley Mountaineering Club
- Barrow Mountaineering and Ski Club
Climbing walls
- Keswick Climbing Wall, Keswick
- Lakeland Climbing Centre, Kendal
- Penrith Climbing Wall - based in Penrith Lleisure Centre. Usual haunt of the club.
- Keswick Climbing Wall
- St Aidans County High School, Carlisle
- The Sands Centre, Carlisle
Gear shops
- Freetime - Our very own Phil Tinning's shop in Carlisle. Excellent shop, especially for footwear.
- Needlesport - Keswick's biggest and best climbing shop. Stocks everything for summer and winter climbing.
Weather
Winter climbing conditions in Scotland from The Frontpoint. Has links to loads of blogs and other sites. Excellent service.
Learn to Climb
- Plas y Brenin - the national mountain centre at Capel Curig, Wales
- Glenmore Lodge - Scotland's national mountain centre