Was having a walk past Wharncliffe yesterday and apart from a few bits of extra painted graffiti and a couple of chiseled initials noticed a few other things.
On a lot of the rock it almost looks like the top layer of blackened rock has kind of de-laminated in random small spots, leaving the lighter rock exposed.
I first thought it looks like it would if people were throwing stones at the wall, but would have taken rentamob weeks to do this and would have left lots of small broken rocks at base of crag.
Next thought was has it been shot at with shotguns, but shotguns are designed to send the shot in patterns and these were far too random for that.
Anyone got any idea, I should have taken a few pictures I know but will next time I am passing.
Another thing I noticed was that there did seem to have been a good few small flakes broken off low down on routes. Without casting any allegations there does also seem to have been a bit of enhancing of foot holds low down on routes. Looks more like rocks bashed onto the hold rather than a chisel, but the initials have definitely had metal work used to cut them in????
The crag is a bit of a back water and overlooked by many but would be a shame to see it abused especially as it could be said that this was the birthplace of crag climbing by J.W.P