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I was at Lawrencefield yesterday and noticed someone has took a big chuck of rock out at the first ledge. obviously to make a gear placement, the problem is they failed. Castration is prob not required for the culprit coz not got balls anyway.

In reply to Paul Hy:

Bastards. That was probably my favourite route at lawrencefield.

In reply to davidbeynon:

Such things can normally be repaired. There is gear once on the ledge anyhow ffs.

In reply to Paul Hy:

I can put safe money that no one will own up to it!

In reply to Paul Hy:
Get any pics of the damage?

In reply to BenedictIEP:

We saw this a couple of weeks ago. Seemed a really weird thing to do.

In reply to Paul Hy:

Oh come on, don't be so unreasobale, it was probably just natural erosion. Where is your evidence that this was down to c*ntitude?

In reply to Jon Stewart:

Don't be as unreasonable as you were? ()

In reply to Timmd:

Looked like a confession to me

In reply to Paul Hy:

This route was my first trad lead and an absolutely beauty of a route, I will be gutted and very annoyed to see that someone has yet again vandalised more rock!

Anyone seen the graffiti at Wharncliffe?

In reply to MountainGoat82:


Yes. I emailed the BMC but never got a reply

In reply to Paul Hy:

We climbed the route a couple of days after the damage occurred (we think) - there was still a fair bit of fractured grit on the ledge. It looked to us as if the small block had been accidentally pulled out, so just wear and tear rather than deliberate vandalism. As has been stated there is gear available once you're standing on the ledge so there would have been little point in manufacturing a (poor) cam placement on that part of the route. There was no sign that the scar had been used as a gear placement as it was still in a very raw state.

In reply to Paul Hy:

And frankly, who would bother to chisel a VS? :S

In reply to EarlyBird:

having now seen pics of what is was like i can see the it is the small block that has gone. so some could have placed a piece of gear which may have snapped it off.