Darlton Quarry: Post-Mission Impossible filming report. Sunny Wall at Darlton isn't a spectacular bit of rock but in its favour it probably has the highest concentration of sub 6a sport routes in the Peak, plus a bunch of easier grade 6 routes too. Access has been impossible for most of 2021 because of the film set construction then filming, then dismantling. I went for a walk there today after a organisational £_*k-up meant I was 24 hours too early /my mate was going to be 24 hours too late to Horseshoe to climb. Everything has been completely cleared from the quarry floor, they've even dismantled the old "Marie Celeste" office building by the gate.
The Shady Wall routes look basically untouched despite the famous train having took flight off the top of them! But on Sunny Wall it looks like they bulldozed lots of mud and rubble up against the bottom of the wall. Someone has removed the hangers from lots of the first bolts but have left the studs undamaged. For the routes in the middle section, the studs are probably at chest height now so not much help, clipping the previously second bolt shouldn't be hard. Towards the right end there must be more stuff pushed up as there the bolt studs are at knee height or lower. The routes at both the far left like Still Game (6a) and on the far right (from about Stripey (6a+) onwards) seem unaffected.
I doubt the new bank of rubble will shrink much, they seem to have reinforced it with that thick rockfall catch netting, so presumably it was part of the engineering they did to collect all the bits of the smashed up train, driven off the opposite top for the movie. Which route is which is still obvious using the topo though.
