Quote from: Stu Littlefair on May 18, 2020, 05:38:19 pmI think TT has pulled me up for going to Church at the weekend. Even if he’s not talking about me, my Sunday activities fit his description of a knob pretty closely. I’d be interested in people’s opinion.My surprise is people posting where they've been on Insta (not necessarily your post Stu). Isn't this just asking for it to be busy/ier if you return?
I think TT has pulled me up for going to Church at the weekend. Even if he’s not talking about me, my Sunday activities fit his description of a knob pretty closely. I’d be interested in people’s opinion.
Quote from: Stu Littlefair on May 18, 2020, 05:38:19 pmI think TT has pulled me up for going to Church at the weekend. Even if he’s not talking about me, my Sunday activities fit his description of a knob pretty closely. I’d be interested in people’s opinion. Absolutely nothing wrong with going to Church in my opinion. Yes it's in a village but it's not that small and there's plenty of room to keep away from locals, not bother anyone with parking etc. since it's on a main road. Good choice I think.Only issue is if someone else is already there, in which case you'd gave to go elsewhere as there would be no way of distancing.
think it might be deliberate RE putting off climbing?
There’s an unfortunate Catch 22 with the very nature of esoteric crags- not everyone knows about them!In this weeks Power Club there’s my report of no climbers at Rivelin and another of 6 parties at Dovestones. Pretty easy to see that well-meaning people are avoiding places that they think will be busy and going to the most esoteric one they know of (the most obscure in Eastern Grit) which is also the most esoteric that many other people know- Will’s idea of hundreds of equally weird and small venues is great but most people simply don’t have any that catalogue of venues on their radar at all.It’s not really a problem in this case (Dovestone can handle six pairs of climbers as well as Rivelin can) and I don’t have a solution but it is a fly in the ointment of the “don’t go to popular venues” advice.
Dovestones is a big place and could take 60 sensible pairs let alone 6
Rivelin is maybe a bit warm for the current weather but Dovestones Edge and Quarries (if that's what you mean ), would have been in perfect nick... Probably even Shining Clough and Ravenstones would have been good given how dry it's been. Dovestones is a big place and could take 60 sensible pairs let alone 6; the Quarries have the longest straight up low grade classics on grit, which oddly get hardly any traffic.