[joe dobson]

lashed it down in preston yesterday and had a heavy shower today, very much doubt anything round this way will be dry tomorrow. Especially with more rain forecast.

[Omar15]

Assume anston will be mostly wet now...anyone been?

[dave]

Anyone been this week?

[moose]

Anyone know if anything is dry at Anston? Forecast for the weekend looks bloody horrible - wet and windy - so I'd be willing to drive a fair way for a bit of steep and sheltered rock... providing it's not seeping. 

[abarro81]

No idea on conditions, but if it's actually raining hard Anston isn't that sheltered - it aint like the tor.

[moose]

'true - come to think of it I have vague memories of getting soaking wet whilst climbing dry rock (like at Craig-y-L: the climbing might stay dry but the climber generally doesn't!).  Still, it's possibly an option if the forecast is for light / intermittent rain, I wouldn't mind the odd break to shelter from rain, so long as the rock isn't being wetted out.  It's the wind I'm mainly trying to avoid - forecast is pretty fierce.  In Yorkshire everything is either incredibly exposed to the wind (Almscliff, Slipstones) or needs days to dry out (Caley) or both (most of Earl), with the main exception being Brimham (though that tends to be damp and the parking cost makes me reluctant to commit except when a full day's entertainment is certain).  Got a horrible feeling it might be another Depot double header!

[tomtom]

Widdop?

[Nike Air]

scout crag opposite widdop maybe but you will have to be quick....
http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

[Gallant]

Anyone been recently with news of dampness or lack thereof?

[moose]

Bump... any chance of dry rock?

[JK]

On Sat the 'main' area (Wave, Ebola, Bullet Roof etc.) was pretty much bone dry. The starts of Alpha and Ebola were a little damp but climable (no worse than usual). The pocket hold in the roof on bullet was wet, but other than that everything else was dry. It was sheltered and sunny as well, bonus!   

Didn't go to any other areas so can't comment on them.

[T_B]

Good info. So was Black Crow dry do ya reckon?

[dod]

It was all soaked on sunday. Condensation rather than seepage i would say though

[JK]

T_B - for what it's worth after the last post, Black Crow was dry.

[BenF]

Overall pretty wet today. Hidden buttress the best we found with almost everything dry there but most crags gopping, especially the south side ones. Didn't go to the wave but I expect it was ok to climb on given how decent Hidden Buttress was. Seems the higher, northern side crags were freer of much of the condensation, although there was a fair bit of drainage coming down the obvious damp streaks.

[James Malloch]

Didn't go to the wave but I expect it was ok to climb on given how decent Hidden Buttress was.

The wave was good yesterday (if you can gain anything from that after the rain). Not sure how seepage/runoff is there...

[masonwoods101]

Pretty damned dry this morning.... Felt grippy!

[James Malloch]

Pretty damned dry this morning.... Felt grippy!

Awesome! Which area were you at? We're heading over in a few hours.

[peewee]

any chance the dark art / black crow area would be dry tomorrow?

[Gallant]

Both dryable but some holds damp to touch (though I'm not strong enough to get on either!) Most things in and around that area are in roughly the same nick. The less steep bit to the right hand side of this is pretty much dry. Alpha (I think that's what it was anyway) starting hold a bit moist, though that may be my rubbish skin.

Frodo and that lot reasonably condensed and generally a bit grim, I'd probably give it a miss for another wee while.

Woody's was drying reasonably well about a week and a bit ago, the tufas on the start of the unnamed 7a were dripping but useable with drying between attempts, the rest was probably a bit hard for me to be getting on / have enough of a clue about to tell you what was a hold and what was a random bit of rock you might be able to crimp vaguely.

[peewee]

Cheers for the update, ill hold off for another day.

[blacky]

What's the jizz?

Any chance it will be dry this weekend?

[Gallant]

Given dry weather and the fact it was pretty much bone dry last weekend, almost definitely. (Depending on what you're wanting to get on.) Haven't actually been back since Saturday though.

[Seb]

Plus anstons annoyingly random conditions.

[James Malloch]

^^^

That's about the wave area. Frodo was pretty horrible. we didn't check the other butresses.  Apprentice prow was soaked last wednesday though.