End of the world weather #2

I should be writing to tell you of ring glory, and that I had a brilliant session at the board and did Pinky Perky and all that stuff, but I'm not.

I left Leeds at 1500 with the intention of getting to the board for 1600. Got on the ring road, got turned away from the roundabout where the a6110 crosses the a58, as it was flooded. Fought my way out via gildersome and morley and then crawled back to J36 on the m1. Came off there and sat on the roundabout for 45 minutes (hardly moving) tuned the radio to bbc rsheffield and they were saying it was the end of the world.

The station had been evacuated, the winter gardens had been turned into an emergency refuge (apparently 900 people stayed overnight) and the road ahead (the a61) was knackered.

Northbound on the M1 was moving well, so I went got back on and went up to j37, barnsley. Joined the a628 with the intention of getting to langsett barns and going through strines to get on the snake and into SW sheff (where I live), but the road back towards stocksbridge (at the flouch) was blocked by the rozzers. Ended up continuing all the way to glossop, to switch back over the snake to get home! arrived at 1900. Rubbish.

I feel like going on a rant about the idiots taking over UKB. Its very frustrating. What used to be a forum of climbers and a banter has started to be dragged down by some idiot posters who are just random. And not funny random. For instance :

BenF writes : I find it hard to believe that Jamie found any sequence that didn't consist of simply avoiding all use of foot holds and relied on just campusing through the difficulty. Let's face it, he's done most of his hard climbing wearing a pair of Vans.

Fair enough, thats about right for Jamie Cassidy. So, someone called Richdraws writes :

Bloody hell!! Possible training progression for the training freaks...
Start with pull ups in rollerskates, work up to locking off with a pair of ford escorts, then campussing with vans?

Ok. Thats quite funny. Fair enough, but that should be it. But its not. BenF is back with :

Apparently Jamie is now working on doing Rockatrocity with a pair of forklift trucks strapped to his ankles. When he manages this it will be a major step forward in bouldering difficulty. No one has previously climbed this hard with heavy lifting gear attached to their body. One difficulty of this challenge is managing to hold the swing with nearly five tonnes of vehicle attached and little room in the cave to let the legs swing low.

Fucking hell. and it goes on, although I'm not posting any more tripe. And, r-man has apparently been claiming problems on the cemetary park boulder on his score card.