The Stronghold is a new bouldering area just past Handsome Crag found by Jon Nermut and Dave Humphries. It has has about a dozen beautiful free standing boulders and some great rock. After 5 weekends there are now about 35 problems in a relatively small area, including several absolute classics. Come prepared with brushes - price of entry is hard labour brushing new problems!

Check out the guide: Handsome Crag bouldering

Here's a video of a couple of the new problems done today: (hi-res version is on the Videos page)

And some photos:

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  1. Jon Nermut AUTHOR

    Another vid by Dave Humphries, me on the FA of the very classic Vitriol (V2 or 3)

  2. Jon Nermut AUTHOR

    Plenty more activity out at the Stronghold, there have been people there every weekend over winter. There are now about 65 problems, with several obvious lines yet to be done.

    Here's a quick vid of James Scarborough doing a couple of cool new problems yesterday.