Dagger Attack
Fed up of those dark evenings when you can’t go climbing outdoors and the exertions on the climbing wall have b***d your joints. Dig out your Pembroke guide and go on the “dagger attack”. No this is not the latest police initiative or a perverted form of winter climbing but an attempt to clear the number of daggers currently in the Pembroke Guide as part of the push towards the next guidebook.

Over the summer Nigel Barry, compiler of the Range West web guide, has collated vast amounts of information on climbing in Pembroke, he now has details of nearly 6,000 routes (compared to about 3,500 in the 1996 guide), as well as DWS and bouldering.

In the 1996 guidebook there were 800 routes with no confirmed grade (aka the “daggers” †). We want to reduce this number and are sure that many of these routes have been climbed and commented upon. Have you done any of these routes, what were your thoughts?

If you have any information on “daggered” routes in the guide, the 2002 supplement, the Range West web guide or the May Cottage log book please email it (Subject PEMBROKE DAGGERS) to:

Second ascents, undergrading, overgrading, dubious description, star rating, all this information is useful.

The new Pembroke Guide will be the prize in a draw for those who have submitted information.

To start you off here are a few questions:

Route Name Area FA Date FA Details Question
Suicide Crack Barcud Pre' 1996   Who and when climbed
Cormorant Corner Superdirect Abereiddy Pre' 1996   The E1 finish in the 1996 guide, who and when climbed
Pen Castell Grooves North 1/9/93 B.Davidson, R.Jones Description, where, grade
Tiles North 1/9/93 B.Davidson, R.Jones Description, where, grade
Me ‘n’ Cap’n Webb South 24/5/86 M.Sheldrake, D.Brown Description, where, grade
Domesday South 30/8/87 C,Waddy, P.Oxley Description, where, grade
Stopping the Horse South 4/10/87 A.Sharp, P.Lewis Description, where, grade
Double or Quits South 6/12/87 H.Lancashire, S.Clegg Description, where, grade
Fickle Heart South 3/4/88 P.Donnithorne, T.Meen, L.Welch Description, where, grade

More will follow.