Dumby Bloc

A Stone Country Guide to 300 Boulder Problems at Dumbarton Rock

Dumbarton Rock, or ‹Dumby› as it is known to locals, is Scotland’s prime urban
bouldering venue. This is the first guide to document the complete bouldering
at Dumby – the straight-ups, the traverses, the eliminates, the link-ups, the
circuits and the testpieces, as well as the projects… If you’re visiting
Dumby for the first time, or have become smitten with the place as a local
venue, this is the guide for you!

Photo-topos, circuit maps, extended descriptions and historical notes provide
the first complete tick-list for bouldering at Dumbarton – even getting to 100
complete problems will seem like an achievement, whilst ticking all 300 would
be a world-class first.

This notoriously fickle and difficult venue can safely be described as the
spiritual home of Scottish bouldering.

Edited by ‹Stone Country› John Watson, who runs the bouldering news blog
stonecountry.blogspot.com. John is the man behind the guidebook Bouldering
Guide to Scotland, and has been bouldering at Dumbarton for over 20 years,
still without success on many Problems.