Yep, some and like the other chap said with mainly easterlies currently, you need to be at the top to find and respite from them in the last week or two.
There are worse things out and about than midges as well - below was at Birchen Sunday evening, where I got a bit midged also.
Yes, very much. I was riding through clouds of them at stanage shortly before sunset on Saturday. So bad I changed my route from plantation and just kept riding along the top of the edge in the slight breeze.
Paul must have been lucky, often, ...not the worst crag but it can be bad, it can even be bad further south on some of the least midge affected grit venues I know.
Up in Scotland it didn't seem so bad, so far. I was on Broad Law in the southern part on Sunday, and it was fine. Then clear again on Ben Avon on Monday on the eastern side of the Cairngorms.
We got savaged on ben lomond in bright sunshine walking last weekend up to around midday (probably a mixture of breeze and sunshine that eventually cleared them)
Wilton was fine yesterday as it faces East and was catching a light easterly breeze. All dry on the crag as well and with way less polish than Millstone.
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