High Cademan
Big blocs
Big blocs
Home to plenty of quality problems on good sized blocks, and to the only roof climbing in the Wood. High Cademan is usually quieter than the crags along Turolough Road and is a excellent alternative should you arrive and find these busy. Chockstone Roof f6B+, Prowed f6C and Sacrificial Offering f7A are the classics of this area.
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Parking: Park in the Car Park on Swannymote Road, or in the layby slightly north of it. If these are full you can park on Loughborough Road as for Temple Hill.
Approach: Take the northern footpath out of the car park, turn left at the fork and follow the footpath to the boulders.
Approach: Take the northern footpath out of the car park, turn left at the fork and follow the footpath to the boulders.
High Cademan affords a picture of rugged wilderness rarely to be met in a cultivated district.
- Handbook to Charnwood Forest, R. Allen (1857)
Many of these [blocks] are tons and tones in weight, and half as big as a house. Is not that a very wonderful history for a block of stone? First to have been sent out of a burning mountain as a river of melted rock; then to have cooled down into solid rock; and lastly to have been carried from their cradle by an ice-river, and to have left high and dry upon the shoal and strand of time!
- A Big Block, H. Major (1883)
