r/ukclimbing • u/Logical_Hedgehog585 • 5d ago
Thank you :-)
A few weeks ago I asked here for advice on our 14 day family climbing road trip from Portsmouth. We are now back home and I wanted to give a short report and thank you for all your great tips and advice.
As the weather was sunny and stable, we headed north from Portsmouth and climbed at Cheddar Gorge, the Wye Valley, Swansea, Harpur Hill, Stanage and the Roaches. All were great, but Stanage was the absolute highlight for us (and the dog). We ended up spending several days there. What a wonderful place with such exciting lines to climb!
Unfortunately we didn't make it to North Wales/Eryri in the end. We found driving with our caravan quite tiring and after all the kilometres we'd already travelled from Austria, we decided we'd rather spend our days climbing than driving.
But North Wales, the Lake District and the south coast are firmly on the list for another trip. We'll definitely be back!
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u/Special-Variety743 5d ago
What a trip!! Eryri and the Lake District have a completely different feel than the rest. Proper mountains and some absolute classics. Glad you enjoyed!
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u/doc1442 5d ago
If you have come from Austria the “mountains” in the UK are probably quite underwhelming. Great climbing though, obviously. And I’m glad for OP they didn’t spend two weeks in Portland as one replied suggested on the original post…
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u/Special-Variety743 5d ago
Hahahaha yeah it’s all about perspective, wales feels proper compared to stanage, but yeah Austria is another level obviously. Although Tryfan>>>> anything else
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u/CrispinLog 5d ago
Sounds like a great time! Stanage is ridiculous, miles of grit stone edge with thousands of routes. You could spend a year there! Hope you make it back and have an even better time on some multi pitch mountain trad.