New ROCKFAX Western Grit
by Nick Smith Tuesday 6th January
Due for publication in April 2009 is the new ROCKFAX guidebook to Western Grit. A major upgrade to the award-winning 2003 edition, it ranges from the popular Staffordshire gritstone edges of the Roaches, Hen Cloud and Ramshaw up onto the remote Kinder and Bleaklow moorland crags. Also contained are the superb Chew Valley edges, the best of the Lancashire crags and the fine sandstone buttresses on Merseyside of Helsby, Pex Hill and Frodsham.
The big news for me is that one of my photographs is being used on the front cover 
The shot is of Meilee Rafe on the excellent Commander Energy (E2) on the Roaches Lower Tier.
No word as yet on which other photos will be in the guidebook, but I'll create a gallery of them on this site once the book is published.
You can read more about the guide at the ROCKFAX website.
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