If you want to climb at Range West in Pembrokeshire during 2012, then you need to attend an annual briefing at the Castlemartin Army Camp. Dates for the three briefings to be held in 2012 have just been arranged.
Range West in Pembrokeshire contains some of the most impressive and adventurous sea-cliff trad routes in Wales. However unlike some other areas not all the routes are super hard or desperate and there are very many excellent low to mid grade routes alongside the harder routes.
With a very strong on-sight and ground-up ethic, there is still plenty of scope for new routes. With over 600 routes already recorded here, the new Climbers' Club definitive guidebook to Range West, due out in late 2012, will undoubtedly encourage a surge of activity here.
Unfortunately, access to Range West is a little bit more complicated than to most other areas, as the whole of Range West is a live military firing range. Every person who enters the range must attend a formal briefing, and the BMC together with the National Park and the Castlemartin Army Camp staff and HM Coastguard have agreed on three dates for the 2012 briefings for climbers. The dates for 2012 are slightly different to previous years in order to take advantage of the extra long Bank Holiday in early June, and to make the most of the best tidal conditions for Pembrokeshire.
The dates for 2012 are:
Saturday June 2nd
Saturday June 23rd
Saturday July 28th
All the briefings start promptly at 9am and are held at the Castlemartin Army Camp, some 2 miles form Bosherston, post code SA71 5EB.
It may be possible to arrange additional briefings if there is further demand and sufficient numbers to justify this.
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