Boulder problems for rock-starved students stranded at the University of Warwick. A full list of boulder problems can be found on UKClimbing.com. The best areas are detailed below. Many of the taller buildings have been climbed but these ascents are left unrecorded.
Toil (aka 3B Series I by Bernard Scottlander)
The red sculpture outside Old Rootes. Several problems, the best of which require going barefoot and chalking up your feet. GPS Coordinates.
Engineering Department
A crimpy and pocketed wall and arête with a capped roof such that it stays dry in the rain. The best problems on campus are found here. GPS Coordinates.
The Physical Offwidth
An offwidth in the brick wall outside the Physics Department. f6A using offwidth technique but easier and less good if you crimp up it. GPS Coordinates.
Petroleum Wall
Brick walls on the side of the Modern Records Centre. A f3 easy wall climb, f5 eliminate arête and f7A eliminate dyno. GPS Coordinates.
Toil (aka 3B Series I by Bernard Scottlander)
The red sculpture outside Old Rootes. Several problems, the best of which require going barefoot and chalking up your feet. GPS Coordinates.
Engineering Department
A crimpy and pocketed wall and arête with a capped roof such that it stays dry in the rain. The best problems on campus are found here. GPS Coordinates.
The Physical Offwidth
An offwidth in the brick wall outside the Physics Department. f6A using offwidth technique but easier and less good if you crimp up it. GPS Coordinates.
Petroleum Wall
Brick walls on the side of the Modern Records Centre. A f3 easy wall climb, f5 eliminate arête and f7A eliminate dyno. GPS Coordinates.
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At this very moment there may be a dozen climbers on the buildings of Cambridge. They do not know each other; they are unlikely to meet. In twos and threes they are out in search of adventure, and search of themselves. And inadvertently they will find what we found, a love for the buildings and the climbs upon them, a love for the night and the thrill of the darkness.
- The Night Climbers of Cambridge, Wipplesnaith (1937)
[Buildering] has hallowed roots in cat-burglary and the undergraduate climbing of university buildings. All things decline though, and from a gesture of bravado, buildering - in Britain anyway - has modified itself into a convenient form of training for those trapped far from crags.
- Fawcett on Rock, R. Fawcett and J. Beatty (1987)