Whose responsibility do you suppose the sluice is?
Ted - he took your sign down. I wanted to deface it and pin it up in the foundry but it was quickly confiscated when I made my intentions clear.
Adam, HFC is like a ball and chain weighing on my mind at the moment, please, if you're heading the way and keen, I have the numbers on all of it and desperately need a willing sole to hold my rope.
Early Saturday morning Rubicon was mostly dry and pretty much mint. If only I hadn't still been in agony from my first training session of the new year (and therefore climbing like a tit) I would have been able to take advantage of the -3.5 degree temps and dry grippy rock. The lake was quite low, muddy under the traverses (but it was frozen so no problem), a bit of dampness in some of the big pockets on the warm ups but apart from that dry. Sissy dry, wet streak on Zeke but looked ok, Kudos Wall MINT & HFC dry. The only thing that looked unclimbable was Caviar / Beluga which had icicles hanging off it. I was even more surprised to find Crag X in perfect condition. There was the odd patch of dampness but not affecting any holds. My frustration was then complete as after "warming up" at Rubicon I was unable to even contemplate pulling on any of the holds there.
http://www.cragx.co.uk/webcam/images.phpNot the greatest web-cam but might be of use to people thinking of traveling in from Sheffield etc.