A good turnout today and lots lopped at the crag section. Some boulderers, mostly easy slabby ones, that won't have been climbed for years were unearthed from thick quilts of moss. Should dry out and give lots more easy sport. The creme egg boulder and stuff in that vicinity is now a lot more open.
Somebody did some work at the top of crystal method so thep should stay a bit nicer.
I did a lot of digging at Terry and took the earth of right to the back of the shelf on the right hand side. The slanting rib should hopefully stay cleaner now. I think the digging work that had already gone on has had an effect as the slab seemed to dry reasonably quickly in the wind.
If anybody is local please could you wait for a few storms to pass over and then, maybe after a dry day, take a yard brush and sweep the remaining loose soil off the top (impossible to make it perfect today). Once that's done it would be good to ab the face with a stiff brush and give everything (not just the holds) a once over. If this is done then there's no reason why this slab shouldn't dry quickly. The optimist in me thinks that the problem may be much much easier to get in nick now.
