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NEW REVIEW: Froggatt to Black Rocks Reviewed

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 UKC Gear 28 Jun 2010
[BMC New Definitive Froggatt to Black Rocks Guide, 4 kb]"Much anticipated" would be something of an understatement. If anyone was silly enough to have waited with bated breath, they will have expired some years ago. Indeed, it feels like a lifetime since rumours circulated about Ben Heason repeating every route at Froggatt, in a bid to establish new levels of accuracy in the forthcoming 'Froggatt to Black Rocks' Guide.

The editors, Steve Clark and Lynn Robinson, and series editor, Niall Grimes needed to have produced something really special to justify their tardiness. Well, they have.

Read more at http://www.ukclimbing.com/gear/review.php?id=2834

 flaneur 28 Jun 2010
In reply to UKC Gear:

This is a wonderful guidebook.

The validity of definitive guides is increasingly questioned but the love and care evident in the documentation of the smallest and slightest scrap of grit is the perfect riposte to this notion. Buy it and discover gems - whole crags of them - you never knew existed.

I'm going to claim a tiny contribution - recycled joke, p460 - where is my free copy then!?
(Although perhaps it should go to The Guardian sub who came up with this: http://tinyurl.com/29twv7u)
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