It seems that the viewpoint at Caley above Quark, Charm, Strangeness, Scoop has become a memorial spot which has been used on more than one occasion to scatter loved ones ashes.
Having climbed through someone's relative on an evening trip up the Scoop last night - I would describe the experience as less than ideal....
See this all the time in this spot and a few others nearby. I once had a good laugh at someone trying to scatter ashes over the edge at Stanage high neb while someone was climbing below. It was blowing a gale and the wind was picking up the ashes and throwing them back in the face of the scatterers.
It's vandalism, like the spread of memorials, bunches of flowers etc in wild beautiful country. By all mans remember a loved one in the hills etc, but leave no trace. Dedicated memorial gardens and cemeteries are the place for leaving tributes.
There have been a number of UKC threads on this subject in recent years.
> If it works like chalk then we have found a good use for dead relatives. Probably environmentally friendlier than chalk too.
Come to think of it, I might request that after my death I am put in a friend's chalk bag and used on an ascent of The Prozac Link if I don't get around to doing it during my lifetime.
I had this on (I kid you not!) Coffin Crack (VS 4c). Rather than scattered they were dumped in a pile so I had a good natter to them whilst my second followed up.
Ashes are nothing like chalk and, in the case of my grandma, full of bits of metal from her knee replacements. (I picked through her ashes and pulled out all the little nails & staples before we scattered her on the moorside).
I want my ashes scattered on a beautiful crag top, complete with non biodegradable cello wrapped plastic flowers and preferably a plastic plaque epoxied to the rock bearing the words
"To the memory of Derwentdiluted, he loved this place so we thought we'd pollute it"
I'd like my ashes to sway in the wind for a time before finally coming to rest on the ground so I'm thinking of a nice little black plastic bag to hang off a tree....
My sister in law ended up blowing through the ice-cream van window at Chanonry point on the black isle (we weren't invited). Apparently not the first time that's happened.
To me the word "scattered" has always suggested being spread over quite a wide area. It sounds like "flytipped" would be a more apt description for the ashes you encountered..
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