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The Book
The pace of development and the continued rise of the popularity of climbing
at both Portland and Swanage have meant that this latest Dorset Rockfax
guidebook is on the shelves only a little over six years since the publication
of the previous Rockfax in late 2005. The sport climbing at Portland and
Swanage has been extended with many new routes being added across
both areas. The trad climbing at Swanage has also seen a rise in popularity
and, as a result, more routes and even a few new crags have been added
this time. On Portland, most of the trad routes on the cliffs covered are
mentioned in the text, but no lines are presented on the topos. For detailed
descriptions refer to the Climbers' Club guidebook - Portland.
This edition of the Dorset Rockfax is presented in the latest award-winning
format, with full-page colour topos and action photography along with many
new and updated features such as GPS, a Top 50, new maps and clearer
topo lines and annotation.
In order to make space for the larger topos and increased coverage,
we have dropped most of the bouldering. The most popular area -
The
Cuttings Boulderfield
- is available in a 2012 PDF MiniGuide by Ben
Stokes. Devon sport climbing has also been omitted but does feature in
the Rockfax book
West Country Climbs,
published in 2010. There is still
reasonable coverage of the deep water soloing but for a full picture track
down Mike Robertson's superb guidebook
Deep Water
.
All these books are available from
www.rockfax.com
Swanage Lulworth Portland
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The Isle of Portland and its west coast crags are picked out in evening light. In the foreground is the arc of Chesil Beach, St.
Catherine's Chapel and hundreds of swans from Abbotsbury paddling in the Fleet - the body of enclosed water behind Chesil
Beach.
Introduction
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