Huge Outdoors Festival For Sheffield

A quick heads up on CliffHanger, claimed to be the 'UK's largest outdoors-pursuits festival' which takes place in Sheffield on 14-15 July, 2007.

Not to be confused with the terrifyingly bad Silvester Stallone film of the same name, the festival is being held in Graves Park and it looks like being a cracking day out.

There's far too much to list in one small news article, but headlining events include the British Bouldering Championships and an Alpine Beer Festival - sounds like our kind of 'alpine' - plus a lot more besides.

Come-And-Try-It climbing walls will give novices the chance to get a taste for rock, there's a pull-up competition too, a scuba diving pool and some other neat touches like free cycle maintenance and a film and lecture tent.

One idea that's going to appeal to a lot of OMers is the opportunity to download free Peak District audio trails direct to your MP3 player. Neat.

There's a hell of a lot more going on as well, from photo and art exhibitions to iron smelting, yep, really, but the best way to find out more information is via www.cliff-hanger.co.uk.

Admission for adults is a very reasonable £5 including a free programme and parking and accompanied children under 14 get in free of charge. Tickets will only be on sale at the event so no need to pre-book, just make a note in your diary and pray for good weather :-)

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and make a date.