In reply to Jon Stewart:
> All the best climbing is in Scotland. By far the best mountains, by far the best sea cliffs (Pabbay, Mingulay, Sheigra and others) and the most fantastic rock (Lewisian gneiss, with the Torridonian sandstone pretty fantastic too).
Yes
> But, it's in condition for so little of the time I'm not sure it's the best part of the UK for climbing, it just seems that way when you go at the end of May.
The NW has lots of low level climbing with a long, sometimes year round, season. I don't think the climate is really that much different from N Wales or the Lakes. N Wales probably has the edge for concentration of variety in a small area though.