In reply to CurlyStevo:
> Symmonds Yat has a lot at the grade but you need to be cool with abbing back down off trees and be super careful on the mud bank at the top. Being north facing it also would feel cold and be slow drying at this time of year.
Gosh, you don't half hear some rubbish talked about Symonds Yat! I don't know why it's still so fashionable to diss the place. Let me correct you on a few points .....
Symonds Yat isn't north-facing. The escarpment as a whole faces more west than north; furthermore the right hand sections (facing the crag) of the various protruding buttresses vary between west and south west-facing, and get plenty of afternoon/evening sun.
Much of Symonds Yat is pretty quick-drying. Probably on a par with Goblin Combe (or very nearly, at any rate).
Most climbers abseil back down from GC routes. You can use the gullies but they're not pleasant. At SY, abseil descent is fairly common but far from obligatory. If anything the scrambling descents at GC are steeper and more involved than those at SY. But anyway, you don't absolutely need to be "cool with abseiling back down off trees" at either crag; there are other options.
True, at SY there are some climbs which top out on insecure mudddy slopes, but there are many which finish at comfortable, secure, rocky platforms.
At the grades mentioned by the OP, the selection at SY is far greater, and generally of better quality, than at GC. By and large your comment about limestone not getting going until VS is accurate, but SY is very much an exception.
Post edited at 20:31