In reply to TobyA:
> That's interesting, do you mean on a micro level? So the rock from the climber's perspective. Because that bit of Cheedale on a landscape level, I think, is rather beautiful. There aren't many other places that feel like "lost world" canyons like that in the UK.
I like the scenery of Cheedale, especially where it becomes the peculiar British jungle at Chee Tor. It's the amount of stuff growing, and crawling, out of the crag that makes it aesthetically unsettling from a climbing perspective. But I found climbing the dusty sloping horrors and woodlice-infested pockets of the place absolutely compelling: I liked it enough to climb nearly everything there I could, often multiple times.
As Rob says, if for the E2/3 climber, it's a fantastic place, it's just a bit strange.
> Although the eyeless baby-doll head that Rob pulled out of the river during the litter pick last summer was rather disturbing!
Haha! Thankfully, I don't think that's really in keeping with the atmosphere. He should have transferred it to Shipley Glen where it would have been right at home.
> (BTW Jon, talking of eyes...)
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