[Monolith]

I wholeheartedly agree. I paid £16.80 + £2.40 bus fare to climb on the box today. I wouldn't pay that to go to Rubicon if I could fly there by jet.

[Paul B]

how inspiring British limestone could be IF it didn't mostly look like the cave at a less steep angle). It actually looked really good for limestone and Pill Box Original is the first lime thing ever to feature on my semi-vague ticklist.[/size]

I'd like to point out that there are plenty of bloody inspring lines on British Limestone, to say otherwise is frankly daft.

[BenF]

I'd like to point out that there are plenty of bloody inspring lines on British Limestone, to say otherwise is frankly daft.

Absolutely right, and fair few of them are on the Orme.  It is a shame that the Orme is overlooked by so many route climbers these days, when Yorkshire, the Peak, Portland and even Cheddar are all busy.  Each time I've been out routing on the Orme in the past couple of years we've been either the only team or one of only maybe two or three teams out with ropes.  It's obviously nice to have the whole of the upper tier to choose from, but it seems a shame that it's not getting used as much as say ten years ago.

[Stubbs]

I'd like to point out that there are plenty of bloody inspring lines on British Limestone, to say otherwise is frankly daft.

Absolutely right, and fair few of them are on the Orme.  It is a shame that the Orme is overlooked by so many route climbers these days

I always assumed this was because when it was dry in the mountains that's were the locals were, climbing trad, and the Ormes were a second choice for when it was raining in the mountains?

[BenF]

I always assumed this was because when it was dry in the mountains that's were the locals were, climbing trad, and the Ormes were a second choice for when it was raining in the mountains?

Yup, that's right. 

I know that plenty of locals are climbing on the Orme (as opposed to hanging out in the cave), I guess I'm surprised that few people appear to travel to the Orme these days.  Maybe the Clwyds are getting the visiting climbers attention at the moment.

[nash1]

The Ormes are just plain ace. One of me favourites.
Still have Bearded Clam to do (amongst other things, cough) and I feel I am kind of saving it, but not sure what for?

[superfurrymonkey]

I/have/spilled/bovril/on/my/keyboard/hence/the/slashes :wall:can/I/have/a/new/link/for/dust/kick/into/pillar/start/high?

[Doylo]

As much as i vowed never to publicly jibe the cave theres no getting away from the fact that Dustkick should be sent to the bad boulder problem heaven up in the sky, sorry Si 

[Pantontino]

I/have/spilled/bovril/on/my/keyboard/hence/the/slashes :wall:can/I/have/a/new/link/for/dust/kick/into/pillar/start/high?

Yes, as I suppose it is (slightly) different to:

http://www.northwalesbouldering.com/newsitem.asp?nsid=97

Doylo: You speak with forked tongue - I did Dustkick the other week (first time in years), and was pleasantly surprised at the flowing technical quality of the moves. Class like that doesn't come along very often.

[Doylo]

hmm, tell it to the judge Si. Theres no shame in climbing a bad problem, i will now put it on record that Les Bos is a terrible problem! Les Bos last orders is good though.

[Pantontino]

Les Bos last orders is good though.

Yeah, whoever put that beauty together must be some sort of visionary...

[superfurrymonkey]

Dust kicks not a bad little problem I thought the moves to gain the flake were nice, climbs better than it looks but over graded in my opinion it`s a lot easier than right wall traverse. As for the link a bit tenuous maybe