[uptown]

Anyone know of the new Scottish grit crag - Whereabouts? Any good? Winter venue?
5 pages on a new script for Curbar, 3 pages on Baslow - why no mention of this find up north if people are genuinely interested in Gods own rock.  

[cofe]

those two other threads are for the next guide. i doubt scotland is within the catchment area for the new froggatt guide. although most other stuff is so i could be wrong.

[uptown]

Only teasing cofe - good luck with the guide.
I found out from scottishclimbs.com what the grit is, and I don't reckon it'd compare to the Peak anyhow! Crag is called Craigmaddie near Glasgow,and it sounds like hard sandstone.
Hardly worth laughing about really.

[cofe]

you tease. i'll set lovejoy on you. he's well hard.

[a dense loner]

heard from an unidentifiable source today that you haven't climbed for a year uptown, and you're on your way to resembling a goodyear blimp

[SA Chris]

http://stonecountry.blogspot.com/2008/02/craigmaddie-alchemy.html

In resurrecting a zombie, nice sounding new prob have been done here.

[uptown]

heard from an unidentifiable source today that you haven't climbed for a year uptown, and you're on your way to resembling a goodyear blimp

Jab me with needles - I'm going to Scotland...I hear it's the new Yorkshire.

[magpie]

Crag is called Craigmaddie near Glasgow,and it sounds like hard sandstone.
Hardly worth laughing about really.

It's a nice wee crag, Craigmaddie, some good problems.  Not sure what kind of rock it is but it does feel odd for Scotland, the only other place my tips suffered quite so badly was Font.  So you could be spot on with the hard sandstone.

[SA Chris]

http://www.stonecountry.co.uk/html/topos.html

I'm not sure it made it into the new bouldering guide, but there's a downloadable topo here. Looks like it could be worth checking out.

[coolboy]

apparently it's a form of grit of the 'namurian millstone grit series' ???

[SA Chris]

'swot the topo says. I'm sure one of our geological experts will be able to opine better than me. I've not even climbed on it. Yet.

[Mike Lee]

Grit? Do people really think it's Gods own rock??? Schist's is the shit... 

...Seriously though, Torridonian Sandstone or Lewisain Gniess are better than grit... People on this site seem to groan about anything Scottish...

[andy_e]

(checks books first to make sure)

Most of the gritstone in Yorkshire and the peak is Namurian in age- the Namurian being 326-315 Ma and one of the later eopchs of the Carboniferous period.

[Paz]

People on this site seem to groan about anything Scottish...

Well it's a nice place to visit for all of its better aspects.  But as for living there or it being the new Yorkshire, I can see why her people are so pissed off.  The beer's shit, the cricket team's shit, the food's shit, the weather's shit, it takes ages to get there and even once you're there it takes ages to get anywhere in it and you have sectarian undercurrents that make the War of the roses seem like the friendly rivalry it is.  Sea food and climbing I'll grant you, but all in all, Yorkshire's not so bad. 

[coolboy]

A bit harsh!

There's some brilliant bouldering in Scotland that I've done that compares quite favourably

Wouldn't compare it to yorks though as Scotland definitely lacks the concentration

some grim aspects to the north of England too!

tom

[SA Chris]

No crowds of mardy English about complaining that everything's shit either.

[Paz]

That is a problem with most of England, and Wales, admittedly, but not one that Scotand is immune to. 

[SA Chris]

I wasn't a reference to everyone Paz, only you and your moan above.