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Climb Quality - how do you rate it? 13-Sep-2012 At 1:00:12 PM Nick Clow

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Peter
> Mid to late 90s (when the comprehensive UBM guide was the latest & greatest guide) those crags were much more crowded

I actually disagree with that - not necessarily that the crags weren't more crowded. Climbing (full stop) probably got more popular in that period resulting in more people at crags like Piddo.

That is hardly the fault of the UBM though. In fact I am pretty sure that one of the reasons Bede did the UBM was to provide a guide encompassing many areas of the mountains, thereby making more crags available to people and creating less of a concentration at the popular crags.

In many ways it is still the most comprehensive and accurate guidebook for the mountains.
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