In reply to TobyA:
> Is it? Really? Come on Robert, even if you have taken a pledge never to come down to the top of the (English) Midlands and mess around on our little brown rocks, you've been around UKC for long enough to know that gritstone in particular seems far more vulnerable to damage in the wet than in the dry.
Of course I know that one should not climb wet sandstone. The post I replied to talked about rock in general which puzzled me; maybe a strange. bouldering thing. But perhaps it was just one of those gritcentric posts.
Having almost no interest in bouldering, I hadn't read the article, but, like with cycling, I do sometimes read bouldering threads just to get a voyeuristic peek into a weird and alien world.
> I would imagine the same is likely to be true of softer sandstone - I guess you might visit Northumbria once in while?
Yes, I do climb in Northumberland. Being a nice place and north of Hadrian's Wall I consider it honorary Scotland.
Anyway I am currently pottering in the Pyrenees on my way back from Spain, psyching up for the unavoidable hell of driving from the Channel to the Border. If only they would bring back the direct ferry bypassing England completely.......