Kilnsey conditions (Read 216604 times)

Steve Crowe · October 08, 2012, 02:55:39 pm

About half a dozen dry routes on sunday, didn't stop, pushed on to Malham!

tim palmer · April 11, 2013, 03:37:07 pm

Anyone been? I imagine it is dry but wondered if the snow melting has soaked through...

turnipturned · April 11, 2013, 03:38:39 pm

Bone dry has been for ages!

Wood FT · April 13, 2013, 06:44:04 pm

Any report from today? Cheers.

P.s what aspect is kilnsey?

scottygillery · April 13, 2013, 07:28:05 pm

Quote from: GuyVG on April 13, 2013, 06:44:04 pm

Any report from today? Cheers.

P.s what aspect is kilnsey?

opposite of malham. In shade all day from about 11. tends to get the wind. will be cold.

willackers · April 13, 2013, 07:34:20 pm

Was at Kilnsey this morning. Pretty much bone dry everywhere, odd damp pocket. There hasn't been much traffic so it's all a bit dirty.

Wood FT · April 13, 2013, 09:45:00 pm

Cheers lads

geoffg · April 14, 2013, 08:42:46 pm

Not as dry as I was expecting today. Lots of damp in bottom breaks and N Buttress had many seeping pockets. Would agree with state of the crag. Needs a good brushing.

willackers · April 14, 2013, 09:32:12 pm

Must have been the rain we had yesterday evening. It was all pretty good when we were there in the morning. We were on full tilt and grooved arête.

andyd · April 15, 2013, 08:44:28 am

I was messing about at the bottom yesterday afternoon during the rain and the water was starting to come through the pockets at a faster rate as time went by.

leeroy · April 19, 2013, 07:48:23 pm

has anyone been today/yesterday? any info on comedy/the bulge would be much appreciated.

turnipturned · April 19, 2013, 09:10:13 pm

Some one was on comedy this eve. Bit streaky on the North Butress. Mainly dry I think. (Beware I am a boulderer)

Fiend · April 26, 2013, 11:35:48 am

Dunno if this is visible or not but it looks pretty dry at the moment:

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nik at work · May 03, 2013, 08:23:36 am

Most things dry and mint conditions yesterday. I predict a busy weekend...

abarro81 · May 05, 2013, 10:37:47 pm

True north and urgent both quite wet today - not even that workable, though were fine for working on Sat. Brief encouter looked soaked, think Indian summer was affected by a wet streak but not sure, couple of streaks right of cold steal. Otherwise think all dry.

If anyone goes midweek could you please post up how TN looks?

nik at work · May 06, 2013, 06:56:20 am

I was amazed how much wetter it was yesterday than on Thursday. Still lots of climbable/workable stuff but in addition to Barrows list:
Biological wet at second clip (rh side pull/pinch), you could work the route but a RP prob not on the cards
Soft Option had a couple of wet pockets near the start, again workable but might make the RP a bit tricky.
I didn't look at Dalliance but I'd guess that it would also probably have damp pockets at the start.

The crag as a whole is really quite dry, but still dust/dirt on a lot of routes from over the winter (and last years washout season I guess) so pack a brush.

nik at work · May 06, 2013, 06:59:39 am

I'm pretty desperate to get up mid-week if at all possible (can't think why...) so I'll let you know how TN looks if I manage to get there. However it was pretty much completely dry last Thursday (slight bit of dampness in the back of the always seeping bit) and yet still wet again at the weekend

. Could be the same story this week, mind you I guess knowledge is power and all that...

Davo · May 11, 2013, 04:16:54 pm

Anybody have a look at North Buttress today?

Cheers Dave

nik at work · May 11, 2013, 04:21:09 pm

Sorry, I meant to post here yesterday.
From Thursday morning, where things were looking pretty good generally, it's got progressively wetter. Whilst I didn't massively check out North Buttress yesterday I know that WYSIWYG was getting more seepy through the day and I certainly looked a full tilt and thought it had probably gone beyond the point of being worth getting on.
Smarter Martyr/Massala Martyr had a pretty good river running down it, and the various options to the left left looked wet in places (I'd guess that ripper and biological would be similar?)
The stuff under the main overhang seemed OK, people were certainly on the usual things (ashes, 50 for 5 etc) and someone was working Mandella (but they said it was in a workable rather than redpointable state).

Davo · May 11, 2013, 07:44:08 pm

Thanks - doesn't sound overly great.

Cheers Dave

Teaboy · May 11, 2013, 08:21:37 pm

North Buttress was soaked, most stuff further right was dry

flyguy · May 14, 2013, 09:08:09 am

Did anyone go yesterday thinking of an evening hit? Is the left side still holding out, directissima, metal guru etc went on Saturday and it was still holding strong just been a lot of rain since?

i_a_coops · May 14, 2013, 09:30:11 am

As of yesterday evening: Metal Guru fine, Directissima fine to L1, Bullet, Cold Steal, MWAG all dry, Sticky Wicket dry, think there was someone on the Ashes in the afternoon so presumably dry.

Wetness on Dreamtime, top of Directissima, the top of Hardy Annual.

North Buttress very wet.

flyguy · May 14, 2013, 12:02:00 pm

Good comprehensive report cheers appreciate that sounds like its worth a punt.

nik at work · May 18, 2013, 12:03:49 am

Today everything from Biological onwards had at least some wetness, and most stuff was gopping.

The stuff at the left hand side of main overhang looked to have a fair few wet streaks (although I didn't look closely) Sticky Wicket and 50 for 5 looked dry, the Ashes was probably mostly dry, I pressume Comedy would be climbable but I didn't look at it. Some of the stuff between main overhang and Biological was probably OK but again I didn't look very closely but off the top of my head some things around optional extra were probably OK, Witches Brew and maybe Frankie were climbable I think. I left at about 1:30 and things were drying back ehile I was there but:
1) There was a lot of wet streaks to begin with and still a lot of slightly shorter wet streaks when I left.
2) If the weather there has been anything like here it's rained a fair bit tonight which won't help.

If you have a NOrth Buttress project then it's probably time to come up with a new plan for the weekend...