On the same subject, the main agenda item at the next BMC Peak Area meeting, is the definitive BMC Peak Limestone guidebook, on which work is currently underway.
Guidebook supremo Grimer has promised to attend, along with Ian Carr, current Guidebook Committee chair.
I know that there have been mutterings that several people have wanted to get involved in this guide, either as authors for specific crags, as route or script checkers, or whatever, but that to date there has been little opportunity to even register that interest.
In the meantime, the other guidebook agencies are circling, and the classic 2 buses scenario seems more than likely - ie. you wait 15 years for a Peak Limestone guide, and then 3 come at once...
Well, for one, I think that the BMC is quite capable of producing the Peak Limestone guide, but this will only happen if the true activists - or at least those willing and able to deliver the goods - are encouraged to write scripts and get involved.
The meeting, at The Maynard in Grindleford, at 7.30 on 23rd November, is your chance to come along and make your voice heard on this important matter. And I hope many of you will do just that!
And, if you have wondered if BMC area meetings are really for you, let me reassure you that here in the Peak we have had the best attended meetings of any BMC area this year, with some excellent debates. We provide free chips and butties. And if you are still not sure, this particular meeting is one of the more entertaining ones on the annual calendar, and this year will feature an impressive quiz of gritstone obscurity and superior ethics by someone called Johnny Brown.
Hope to see you there...
Neil (BMC Peak Area Chair)
