[Moo]

Dang, I’ll have to hit the ibuprofen and try some shizzle on my perma fuck right shoulder then.

[Bradders]

I haven’t got rid of my long running finger injury and think I’ve got a brand new shoulder injury to rehab but we sayin? I’m sensing an earlier call this year.

Tomorrow looks to be one of the best days on grit - plus didn’t we have snow in April last three years?

The lime call has nothing to do with grit connies though, and vice versa.

Been pretty wet recently though and more on the way next week so can't imagine it's imminent.

[Moo]

Whilst your assertion is entirely true bradders it also implies that people climb on grit during limestone season and vice Versa.

This of course could not be true as it would obviously be a great heresy.

[remus]

O caller, caller wherefore art thou caller?

[Wellsy]

It's deffo limetime

[SA Chris]

O caller, caller wherefore art thou caller?

Hasn't the caller migrated north?

[shark]

Is Paint it Black dry?

I didn’t think so

[remus]

Is Paint it Black dry?

I didn’t think so

Might as well wait for the Wye to dry up!

[cheque]

The lime call has nothing to do with grit connies though, and vice versa.

This is only half right as while the lime call seems to be solely based on how psyched the caller is for limestone bouldering the grit call has always been decided on a set of criteria and one of them is that the limestone is wet.

[Johnny Brown]

No it isn't.

[Wellsy]

Oh yes it is!

[Moo]

An absent lime caller?, will the calling of the lime ever give us the consistency we crave ?

[remus]

An absent lime caller?, will the calling of the lime ever give us the consistency we crave ?

I vote we install a weather station at the tor, then after x consecutive days of the correct conditions then the lime is called. I feel this scientific approach is the perfect antidote to the tea leaves, crows with the head of a quail etc. approach taken by the scrittle fettlers.

[Fultonius]

I mean, it's a sign...right?   https://gripped.com/news/will-bosi-climbing-another-new-v15/

[cheque]

No it isn't.

Are you referring to different criteria in posts like this then?

[Moo]

It’s more than simple box ticking cheque. There are criteria but they merely point the way to the “feeling”. 

[Johnny Brown]

No it isn't.

Are you referring to different criteria in posts like this then?

Read your own link. Bonjoy was only guessing, could only guess. The five are never revealed together.

[cheque]

  Can’t believe I just got “read your own link”ed like in those politics threads. I’d always thought Bonjoy came up with the criteria to be honest. Hopefully I won’t be abducted at night by figures in hooded robes for admitting that.

Still, it’s always a good sign when there’s bickering in these Calling threads- usually signals pleasant weather when it’s nice to climb wherever you fancy.

[fatneck]

I suspect that the total lack of a coherent process for Lime calling points to the fact that the lime should never be called and is never "in"... 

[duncan]

I suspect that the total lack of a coherent process for Lime calling points to the fact that the lime should never be called and is never "in"... 

On the contrary, it’s an indication that The Lime is always “in”. It’s the funny brown stuff that needs ‘conditions’. 

[Fiend]

O caller, caller wherefore art thou caller?

Hasn't the caller migrated north?

To the epicentre of Yorkshire scrittle and seems to have had a whale of a time on it.

As usual the whole thing is as disgracefully craptastic as the climbing medium itself. A call is obviously, if reluctantly needed, but where is the fossil-fondler "in charge"?? 

[Moo]

Is a new appointment in order ?

[Duncan Disorderly]

And Lo - it was fortold that a botched call would herald 40 days of rain and the WCJ Cornice being a waterfall until way after midsummer! (remember the Dobbin incident!!).....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2636796

Repent ye sinners!!

For God's sake somebody call it...

I vote Shark be made defacto caller as he's permanetly ensconced under Ben's roof!!

[haydn jones]

Lime beckons us forth,
As spring breathes life to the rocks,
Climbers heed its call.

[User deactivated.]

There's plenty of shady, non-sharp grit to climb in warm weather, just as there's lots of sharp, condensation-prone lime that i'd only want to pull on in winter. I've tried 100% grit winters and 100% lime summers in the past, but now I feel that it's better just going by feel and the particular venue/problem