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Yeh, that's a lot of chalk but who's to say thay didn't brush it off afterwards? It would certainly be shameful if they left it there. 

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these guys.. from 12:15

they might be climbing harder than i can but what a tw@t, can't begin to understand it, they must be borderline blind.

I love the fact that guy doesn't even use the "X marks the spot foothold"

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Font a love story eh? More like someone should be phoning Social Services.

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Churnet was a total disgrace yesterday when I went down.
Whoever TB is, I hate you.

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Tom what have you been doing? You've been told before   :spank:

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I love this thread, about as much as I hate tick marks.

They remind me of the party game, where you try to pin the tail to the donkey, ass, ..hold..? or whatever.
Personally, I think they generally have little to do with pointing out holds, and quite a lot to do with pointing to the climber, donkey, ass, whatever, in a Me, me, me, yes I was here kind of way.

Not super big, but I think this one is a peach. Spotted on the way back from Stanage, the other night (You don't say!).

Cover your eyes now, if you don't want to blow your onsight, as this one points directly to the hidden hold.




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Your Dropbox acccount is protected so the pictures won't embed.

Try sticking them on something like Imgur for easy and cheap hosting (also provides BBCode links to copy and paste into here).

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Oh bllocks! No tick marks then, but still a donkey.

I checked on the preview, and they display fine, and on my phone. I did wonder, as Dropbllocks wasn't on the list on wiki. Let me know if anyone else can see them.

Just for the record, the tick mark is for the tiny, subtle, slopey crimp at the top of Buckstone Dyno. Guess you could miss it.

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It probably showed up in Preview because you were logged into Dropbox in another tab/on your phone and/or the image was cached.

Why would anyone need a tickmark for the Buckstone Dyno? :shrug:

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Can anyone see the starting holds, I'm struggling a bit?


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Yep can see them now Dave. A small tick in the scheme of things. But totally unnecessary none the less. I hope the culprits still missed it.


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And you're right. For good measure I'm surprised the starting holds aren't circled.


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Well I for one love tick marks.

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Well, you probably love them enough to take them with you when you leave :thumbsup:

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Very good  :clap2:

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The snakes have had enough too.

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Is that Bishop? I shat it when I climbed off a boulder to the familiar rattlesnake sound at Ibex. I was on my tod and it's miles from anywhere.

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Churnet was a total disgrace yesterday when I went down.
Whoever TB is, I hate you.

It is much worse now, some utter utter C*nt has decided to scratch M H about 8 times all over Wrights.
What a complete and utter shit.







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what a complete Mike Hunt

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Was at roadside cave (toms roof) on Sunday and some one had underlined all the foot holds on the right wall.... No idea why they where all huge.

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four fingers> four lines?

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what was the towel thing about anyone?

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It covered the worst of the tick-marks.

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It had probably just finished raining, some people like climbing on damp rock

 

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