North Wales Rock Climbing Guide Books

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selected rock climbing guides to North Wales

North Wales Rock,buy from Amazon

Buy North Wales Rock now

selected climbs in North Wales is available now  from  It documents 676 routes in 544 pages, is chocker full of photos and has all new original descriptions and maps.

Paul Williams  Climbing in Snowdonia-

Excellent, if slightly dated, the grades are often discussed and compared with others but you should read the rock grades comparasion  page of the site ,  Includes all the areas such as Llanberis, Cloggy, Ogwen and Tremadog Llyn, and selected mid wales routes. Also Gogarth and North Wales Limestone , . By Paul Williams. Card cover, 460 pages.

Steve Ashton's

highly readable collection of essays and topo diagrams.  Out of print.

Definitive Guides:

The Climbers Club guides include every climb in the area described. Some of the other guides listed may not be as completely or definitive.

 Cloggy

Fantastic new Cloggy guide by Nick Dixon. Just under 200 pages of awesome routes, anecdotes, photos and an extended and fascinating historical section that takes up almost half the book, great place to visit but watch out for bank holidays it gets busy. Plastic cover, 192 pages. see the cloggy forum for up to date information

New Llanberis guide by Iwan Arfon Jones

- a complete reassessment of the valley, with new routes right up to summer 2003. A nice mix of colour and black and white photographs plus photo topos of the crag locations. 336 pages, plastic cover.

Slate 1999

Everything you need to know about North Wales Slate.... except.grading starred routes... likein  the Tremadog guide ! Means you have to go back to reading the descriptions to get the information you require... or you might check out the Slate forum

North Wales Bouldering

Simon Panton's long awaited block-buster - 300 pages of fantastic looking problems. Clear, easy to follow topos and descriptions for all of north Wales's best bouldering areas - Llanberis Pass, Ogwen Valey, Porth Ysgo and Llandudno. Some more obscure outlying areas are also covered in detail. Good quality b&w photographs throughout the guide. Card cover.

Lliwedd

A great place to climb for those who like to get away from it all yet close to Snowdon. 

Ogwen & Carneddau (2 volume set)

Idwal Slabs & Tryfan plus loads of stuff to the north of the A5, including Craig Yr Ysfa. Two slim volumes in a tough plastic outer case. Lots of clear black and white photo topos and plenty of action photograps of climbers in action, many in colour. By Iwan Arfon Jones and team. 418 pages.

Mynydd Mountaineering Club - Cwm Crafnant (1997)

Excellent routes in this neglected area of the Carneddau.

Cwm Silyn & Cwellyn - Eifionydd (2003)

A slim volume, but beautifully produced, with colour photo-diagrams in place of crag drawings. It covers the area south of Llanberis and North of Tremadog and includes such crags as Castell Cidwm and Craig yr Ogof. By Paul Jenkinson and Bob Wightman. Plastic Cover, Marker Ribbon, 128 pages

Tremadog

Tremadog, Aberglaslyn, Clogwyn y Wenallt, Craig y Llyn, Clogwyn y Bustach but no stars, so you have to read the route descriptions and check out the paths from the roadside to guage whichs ones are popular, try the classic Knight on ther tiles.

By Dave Ferguson, Iwan Arfon Jones & Pat Littlejohn. Plastic cover, marker ribbon, 286 pages.

Meirionnydd (2002)

Yr Aran (Craig Cywarch), Arennig Fawr, Y Berwynion, Y Moelwynion, (Cwm Lledr a Betws-y-coed) Y Rhinogau & Cadair Idris. Replaces the old Mid-Wales guide. By Martin Crocker, Elfyn Jones, Mike Rosser, John Sumner, Terry Taylor & David Wrennall. Plastic cover, 512 pages.

Brilliant area with plenty of scope for new routes mountain bouldering and wild camping. 

Gogarth (reprint)

The most atmospheric sea-cliff climbing in the UK, an adventure playground in the West - home to Dream of White horses and the Light that did not shine !.

New guide long over due ... 

Rockfax - North Wales Limestone Rockfax (1997)

More up to date than, and virtually as comprehensive as the definitive guide. The only crags not included are those such as Craig y Forwen where climbing is currently banned.

Lleyn (2002)

Excellent small guide to this little known but magnificent climbing area. Nicely produced with some inspiring photos. The Liptrip on the cover is a gem of a route and if your off to Doris check out the top belays first. 

By Dave Ferguson, Iwan Arfon Jones & Pat Littlejohn. 176 pages, card cover.

Winter climbing North Wales

 2005 reprint of the 1988 edition. By Malcolm Campbell and Andy Newton. Card cover, black and white diagrams and a few colour photos, 248 pages.

north wales winter climbing forum 

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