[AndyR]

That'd be the bhogaidhe mhain.....

[Yossarian]

oooh, oooh - can we have a ukb xmas competition?  

The 2005 UKBouldering Photoshop Challenge in association with Sypeland Outdoors. Come up with amusing Photoshopped images and win prizes! Submit a photo and see yourself transformed into an 8a.nu legend overnight.  Prizes include a week on the Isle of Skye, a tripod, and a 50p gift voucher for Sypeland Outdoors*.

*Voucher valid only for purchases of Kendal Mint Cake.  Disclaimer - The weight of FH may go down as well as up.

[SA Chris]

Disclaimer - The weight of FH may go down as well as up.

I've yet to hear of this happening. Should be "The weight of FH may go up as well as up"

[Fiend]

ROFL @ you both!

[Sypeland]

Andy R has just been into the shop and shown me this, It actualy looks more like my Mother.

[Yossarian]

like mother, like son...

[SA Chris]

You mean in a Norman Bates kind of way?

[Sypeland]

You mean in a Norman Bates kind of way?

Carefull, she is leathal with her 12 inch chopper!

[Jim]

there was a lot of talk about trialing stabalizers on soft grit a while back, eg the arete at higgar sandy footholds. did anything come of it?

[Bonjoy]

I got in some an off the shelf product called Stoneseal, which is designed for stabilising eroding sandstone on walls/buildings. Applied some to said arete at Higgar in summer when the rock was dry and took some before and after photos. I need to go back and check how it is doing and take some more pics to see if the hold has changed. Have been somewhat slack about it really. If it has been of some use I will use some on other probs next summer. I don't think it's a good idea to put it on in winter when the rock is damp.

[Paul B]

I think eagle tor must be very soft:

http://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?n=158898