UKC

Somebody has made a fire under the first route at Pearch ( route- Good to go )

Also left litter.............come on guys this is not cool, nobody wants to drag rope through ashes or pick up somebodies rubbish.

Please be considerate to others.

Local kids.

Climbers often make fires under routes to dry the holds. Apparently

Often? What? In 30 years of pretty regular climbing in lots of different places I've not seen or heard of that. At my favourite crag in Finland the fireplace everyone used when they camped there was by the start of a couple of routes. But that was by chance anyway not to do anything to the routes. They moved the fireplace out away from the rock now anyway - more people can sit round now and the rock doesn't get sooty.

Never heard of this, can you name crag's/routes thanks.

Agreed, used to live down the road, lots of them in and out of it regularly 

I think it is just spelt incorrectly. The Perch Quarry seems to be the one - right route names and so on.

Was this some wildly misunderstood sarcasm?

I was there last year and a group of apparent non-climbers turned up to camp there. I doubt climbers are having fires or leaving rubbish to be honest; most make an effort to take out at least what they brought in, if not more. 

Works even better if you sprinkle chalk dust into the fire.

Ever wondered here the term 'burnt off' came from?