In reply to Hay:
> With the greatest of respect, I am not sure that acceptable to you will equal acceptable to others. Especially not clean living wall bred trad converts.
> You are a climbers climber ... I bet you checked lines first, top out second and then a quick glance round at general ambiance.
My main concern about Cambusbarron is that the excellent routes do not get neglected so that the retro-bolters don't have the (highly dubious) "it's filthy and hasn't ben climbed for years excuse". With a brush, some encouraging chalk, and perhaps some awareness through this thread these routes would deserve regular traffic; they are great lines and excellent by any outcrop standards.
If the bolters want to find new lines there, then, if there is a concensus that is fine by me, but I'm not going to clean the place up for them and make it an appealing place for their groupies to hang. That's up to them!
> Limekilns, Aberdour, Traprain and even the big quarry are more frequented as they are nice(ish) places to be.
Yes.
> Even I found the wee cambu to be a bit too Heart of Darkness for comfort and I'm a trad sprauchler.
Excuse my ignorance again, but what's a sprauchler?
The quarry will always be a bit dank without a major felling operation, but needs not much attention to make the actual climbing very appealing - it already is; I felt quite psyched on Saturday looking at the damp E5's that spanked me in my youth.
> If we want to get some of the sport rockets out ticking Nandrolone then I reckon the whole quarry will need a (yuk! horrible phrase) makeover.
I don't. I'd rather they stayed in the EICA but If they want to clean Nandrolone, they are free to do it themselves; the point is that it is there if they want to.