Anyone been up to the Plantation? Is the car park accessible with a FWD car and no snow tyres/chains?
Road to Burbage (Ringinglow Road) was closed about 30 minutes ago when I tried to go up there. Trackside and bit of Curbar in t woods I went to was hot/snow melting off it although I suspect it would have been fine pre 11
Curbar, Burbage, Froggatt, Stanage all dry nice and quickly Birchen too I hear
Sorry, missed the bit about routes. If you're thinking about walking in with a pad and a rack Froggatt might well be a good bet - quick-drying routes and some bouldering that either dries quick (the top boulders) or doesn't get very wet (Tody's Playground). Once you're at the main bit of Froggatt the 'far' end of Curbar is only a five-minute walk too.
Quote from: Wellsy on October 24, 2023, 02:43:12 pmCurbar, Burbage, Froggatt, Stanage all dry nice and quickly Birchen too I hearNot to have a go at you, Wellsy, as I imagine you're well up on your grit ethics, but this always irks me: these are all crags that people describe as 'quick-drying' but that in reality have some problems that dry quickly and some problems that dry slowly. I know that's stupidly obvious, but I reckon if people stopped thinking of entire crags as 'quick drying' and started thinking about whether the problems they plan on climbing are, we'd have fewer issues with people climbing on damp rock as a whole. For example lots of the quality lower-grade stuff at Stanage Plantation gets the sun and wind and so dries pretty quick, while a lot of the harder stuff is the opposite and so dries slowly. Conversely at Robin Hood's Stride (another supposedly quick-drying crag) the lower-grade stuff dries slowly and is made of quite soft rock so is mostly totally knackered, while there are plenty of problems in the sixes and sevens that do dry quick (and things like The Kid that are sort of rainproof).The key thing if you're looking at climbing on grit on a showery day is surely picking crag/boulders based on wind direction, which is currently looking like you might get some guilt-free climbing in at the classic grit crags based on the Met. But if you take Curbar as an example, most of the stuff up on the edge will probably be in good nick and Trackside will be fine except for the puddle under it, while Gorilla Warfare and Ultimate Gritstone Experience will almost certainly be damp. Those three named problems will probably all have people climbing them this weekend regardless, of course, but that's a separate rant.Gaz, how much have you and your mate done before in the Peak and what grades are you looking at?