In reply to muppetfilter:
> Yesterday I had a rather disapointing experience at Lawrencefield.
Agreed.
> I arrived at the crag around 12Oclock with my partner and six friends
So you were a group of eight? Half of whom were novices?
> (red rag bull moment) This is when I lost it, for which I admit I was in the wrong .
Arguments are bad aren't they? Heat of the moment exchanges rarely shed a lot of light. It's worth just noting that they said you 'might' want to climb somewhere else rather than 'sod off we've got this bit booked'.
> We weren't the only group to walk away from the main area yesterday.
Sensible.
> We moved to roadside Bay which had an SPSA assessment and another Instructed group who politely chatted to us and moved their ropes off routes once they had finished allowing everybody to use the crag .... this is how I would hope it should be.
Nice to hear. People with qualifications can be so nice, can't they?
> I do have concerns over the rigging of a tensioned line in this location , during our discussion the National Trust representative admitted she had seen neither designs for the system, a risk assessment nor method statement but simply assumed that the company she hired was competent yet she had seen no prior written safety assessments . (I will be contacting the National Trust about this)
Now we're talking! Is it the location that bothers you or the fact that they couldn't present you with a file of paperwork? (Presumably every time you get in a taxi you inspect the drivers hackney carriage licence, his driving license and demand the paper counterpart to check previous convictions?)