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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....

So check the top before you set off.

My favourite UKC line of the year so far.  

Not pleasant, especially if it’s a bit windy. But doesn’t it save on chalk?

If it works like chalk then we have found a good use for dead relatives. Probably environmentally friendlier than chalk too.

I once climbed at Ramshaw and thought the  ledges were a bit gritty/dusty... then looked closer and realised it must be someones granny or pet

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.

... Well at least Granny brought tears to their eyes one last time

Did the dust make you sneeze or are you just a bit sqeamish?

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.

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If we're serious about leaving no trace, ashes disappear a lot quicker than bolts.

Good point 

I think you've just solved the mystery of the strange deposits I climbed through on a route near Goliath's Groove a couple of years ago.

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 actually very acidic (hence roses in funeral gardens) and are pretty bad for the soil on a local scale.

Happened to me at Ilkley.  A very gritty jug at the top of a route. Saw the box when I topped out.

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....

This is asking for another list of suitable climbs to be spread uponst- 'cemetary gates'  , 

Aren't human ashes quite alkaline....all that calcium etc (as opposed to coal ash). Wood ash is alkaline as well ('potash')

In my experience,  ashes were slippery, not helpful like chalk.   

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..

Perfect.

Just like the scene from The Big Lebowski

Doh, mixed up. ph 11.8 apparently!

'Oi, this stracciatella is a bit gritty!'

I finished a route at hen cloud into a pile of human dust. 

Someone has drilled a plaque into the rock at ramshaw. I had a massive debate with them over it a while back.it was removed now it's back again.

Last week a ranger was there and I asked if they had seen it,I showed him and he said he would look into it.

Can give the location if someone wants to take a screw driver 

My grandfather was not so much scattered as plopped at sea - in an urn made of sand that is supposed to disintegrate.

I can certainly see the appeal of lobbing such an urn off a favourite sea cliff, but I would at least shout "below" first.

Unexpectedly climbed through the cremulated remains of some dead person at the top of Fearnought at Shipley Glen this afternoon.

First time in a long while at the Glen. It's not pleasant.

You should always ask before climbing through.

At least it was ashes that landed on you, not the body.