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SCOTTISH CLIMBING GUIDE BOOKS | | |
 Scotland is well covered by climbing guides, thanks mainly to the tireless efforts of the Scottish Mountaineering Club. Some recent developments in Scotland can be found on their website, and new routes and comments should be emailed to Andy Nisbet. There are also a handful of other climbing guide producers: as far as we know we stock all of these, but when it comes to walking guides there are innumerable possibilities, only a fraction of which are listed here. Photo: Ian Grimshaw on the crux pitch of Astral Highway (V), Ben Nevis, Scotland. NB Postage!: Due to the low mark up on books, maps, videos and DVDs we have had to charge a contribution towards UK postage on most of these items. This charge is 50p on very light books, £1 on most club style guides and DVDs, £2 on Rockfax and similar size guides and £3 for bigger books. These charges are waived for orders totalling over £60 and for Priority Orders. Overseas orders will be charged at cost. | |
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Selected Guides: These guides offer a selection of the best routes in the area covered. | | |
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Definitive Guides: With the exception of the Highlands and Northeast Outcrops Guides, the excellent SMC series describes both winter and summer routes within the same volume. Other guides listed are almost, if not completely, definitive. | | |
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Galloway Climbing gives details and pictures of all the Galloway Mountain Crags together with descriptions of new routes done since the last Lowland Outcrops guide. | |
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Climbing in Galloway Climbing gives details and pictures of many Galloway and Dumfries-shire crags and routes and is the work of local activist John Biggar. | |
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| | Scottish Climbs has on-line guides to various crags, quarries, and bouldering areas, including the Thirlstane, Sandhills Bay, and Garheugh. | |
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| | Glen Croe Bouldering - near the base of the Rest and be Thankful Pass (A83) about one mile past Ardgartan. | |
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| | Glen Nevis Bouldering details a limited amount of the extensive bouldering in Glen Nevis. | |
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| | The Trossach Boulders. John Read's Topo Guide. | |
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| | Newtyle Quarry near Birnham, Dukeld (north of Perth) is home to such famous dry tooling routes as Too Fast, Too Furious (D12). | |
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| | Abroath Sports Climbs details loads of bolted crags on and around the coast at Arbroath, east of Perth. | |
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| | A Glen Torridon Bouldering Guide is available available at Torridon Youth Hostel and Torridon Visitor Centre. | |
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| | Wild West Topos produce attractive laminated photo topos of various Scottish Northern Highlands Crags, including Mungasdale, Jetty Crag, Raven's Crag and others, Lochan Dubh Crag and others, and Loch Tollaidh Crags. Their website has new route info and topo updates. | | |
| Climb Shetland publishes small miniguides to climbing on the Shetland Isles off the coast of the far north of Scotland. Each mini-guide guide is an A5 pamphlet with a laminated outer cover. Each contains around 10 pages with colour photo topos and route descriptions. They are a home produced desktop published guide, but a pretty good quality one.
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New routes and further information (including a map) are available at Climb Shetland. | |
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| | Climbing in Orkney is an on line guide to the many stacks and cliffs around the Orkney Isles. | |
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| | PDFs of the new routes pages covering Scotalnd from the SMC Journal can be found on the SMC Site. Email new routes to Andy Nisbet | |
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Also of Interest: | | |
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Scrambling Guides & The Cuillin Ridge: | | |
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| | Rockfax also produce a downloadable Mini-Guide to the Skye Ridge. | |
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| | There is also a lot of useful info in our Cuillin Ridge section. | |
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| Walking (and Ski-ing) Guides: | | |
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| Pocket Mountains Beautifully produced mini-guidebooks (15cm x 10.5cm) to Scotland with excellent maps and colour illustrations. All the books are round about 95 pages and all are by Nick Williams. Card covers. | |
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Canoeing Guides: Nothing at all to do with climbing, but can be more fun than the wall on a wet day!: | | |
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| Mountaineers of every period share a common frailty (I too being guilty in past days): we start humbly enough in acquiring new skills - hardly dare to hope to match our exemplars - but humility wanes when the skills are ours. We end up in the belief that our fellows of an earlier age could not have been as bold and skilful as we. From one century to the next, our self-flattering hearts offer up that much beloved toast, "Here's tae us! Wha's like us? Gey few and they're a' deid. | | WH Murray |
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