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Bonjoy:
Obviously you should all go and do something more appropriate with the snow, snowboarding, ice climbing, frost napping etc. But for the obsessed and the one track minded I thought I’d start a list of probs that might be worth a look either now or once things have settled down a bit. I’ve not tried to take into account how easy it would be to get to the crag or how hideously cold it might be.
I’ve gone through my old east peak 7+8 list and picked out the most likely candidates.
Maybe other folk could suggest stuff for other areas.

The first lot are the most reliably snow/melt proof:

Route 66, Hat Trick, Desert Island Disco, Non Stick Vicar, Smears for Ears, Taxi to the Crag – Black Rocks
Hueco Wall probs – Cratcliffe
No Regrets, Growler, The Kid - Robin Hood Stride
Goose Creature (and Canon), Moo Cow, Liquid Cool – Shining Cliff
Most stuff at eatswood, though a few finish holds will be snowy/wet
Perfect Day Direct, Stump Hole Cavern – Gardoms
Desperot – Chatsworth
Block N Tackle Direct, Witness the Gritness –Higgar
Purist Energy, Skinless Wonder Start– Apparent North
Back in the YMCA – Plantation
Walk on By, Sean’s Arete, Ramboid – Curbar
Probs on Froggatt Pinnacle, Slingshot/Chequer’s Groove – Froggatt
Them, Crème de la Crème Direct – Yarncliffe
Leotard Legend – Burb South
Moontan - Rivelin
Thumb Wars - Rivelin
The Stanton Shuffle - Stanton
Scrapheap Challenge - Harthill Quarry (next door to Clifftop Boulders)
Pleasant Street - Cratcliffe (at base of crag under Requiem)

These lot are all good options but you’ll have to take into account stuff like  frost/melt on northern aspects, snow on the odd hold, topout might need some brushing off, prob might get wet in heavy melt conditions and the presence of any drifting:

Jerry’s Trav, Babu Yagu, RHS Cave probs – Cratcliffe/RHS
Probs on the Cork Stone – Stanton
Most probs on Clifftop boulder
Finger Bang, River of Life, Gibbon Swing – Turning Stone
Most stuff at Birchen
Double Bum, Plan D, Forward Thinking Sound Engineer – Gardom’s South
Attitude Inspector, The Rib, David trav, Pebble Mill probs – Burb South
Small is Beautiful, Banana Finger block, Remergence area, Striker – Burb N
West Side Story – Burb West
Golden Path, Nightsalt, Help the Young, Careless Torque, Courtesy of Jonboy, Green Room Slap – Stanage
Curvaceous, Blunted, Sweet Release – Wharncliffe
Higher Ground(?), Fact Hunt etc(?), Hot Ziggerty wall – Baslow
Great White, Ben’s Wall, Baby Belle – Curbar
Rambeau, Downhill Direct, Sole Power – Froggatt
Most stuff at Millstone
David, Conan – Mother Cap
Green Flag – Carl Wark
Glom Onto, Chimp B, Iain's Dyno, Cheeks N Beaks, Nik's Wall, Sparks - Rivelin
Kappix - Harthill Quarry


Edit: Have modified to include/exclude a few bits mentioned in thread below

uptown:
Would Clifftop be a good spot after a brush of the top Jon?
Also in that area - The Stanton shuffle is reliable bar the starting grips.

Bonjoy:
Aye, Clifftop should be fine bar the topout.

T_B:
Happy Campus at Rivelin takes some drainage. Went up there last winter and it was wet, though Cheeks n Beaks to the right was probably doable.

willackers:
What's it like to get around in the Peak at the moment?

I was supposed to be venturing down from Glasgow this weekend until we got all this snow, do you think I would get much climbing done or would it be a waste of Diesel?

Not climbed outside in ages! Arghhh!  :furious:

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