Donkey line / tick mark hall of shame. (Read 488711 times)

dave · March 15, 2007, 11:01:11 pm

damn right, i got there and thought i was fucked cos i'd totally missed a deep 2finger pocket, but luckily spotted it as the last minute.

SA Chris · March 16, 2007, 07:33:38 am

That's the most spannerish thing I have seen in a while. Unless it's a pisstake.

BenF · March 16, 2007, 12:10:24 pm

I think we may have a candidate for the worst tick marking award 2007. Truly terrible and no wonder non-clibers complain about our impact on the crag. Made slightly better (for comedy reasons) by getting the sequence wrong though.

Dr T · March 16, 2007, 02:27:33 pm

IMHO there's nought wrong with the odd tick line if it's really needed so long as it's put on lightly so that you can completely remove (brush it off) before you leave otherwise it's a antisocial as mindless graffiti and people that leave tick marks (and worse sequences) are wankers...
(rant over, kids playing up at school... nearly easter holidays... thank fuck)

Stubbs · March 16, 2007, 06:21:24 pm

I managed to really piss off a german guy on Bishop by brushing a similar set of tick marks off the iron man traverse. He came over just as we were leaving and said 'I had a great sequence worked out, I had put an L for my left, an R for my right and an M on the hold I was to match, now I will have to start all over again'

GCW · March 16, 2007, 07:54:39 pm

Shame you didn't know he was still there. You could have changed them all to Rs and watched the fun

Blunk · March 18, 2007, 02:38:35 am

Last week's trip to Utah

Fiend · March 18, 2007, 09:34:26 am

Don't see many donkey lines there El Blunko...

Nibile · March 18, 2007, 11:35:30 am

wrong thread dab!!!

Blunk · March 19, 2007, 03:04:44 am

Now how the hell did I manage to do that?!? I was looking right at Bonjoy's latest pic when I posted!

SA Chris · March 19, 2007, 07:26:28 am

Nicve pics regardless. Are those the Bend Boulders near Moab? Did you fnally succeed on your 20 year (or so) nemesis?

Blunk · March 19, 2007, 03:42:48 pm

Yes, it is Big Bend, and no I didn't get my nemesis. I think I'm going to give up on it finally, it's too far to keep driving out there now that we have kids and work is more demanding. Oh well, it's not like I didn't have fun trying it!

jwi · March 20, 2007, 08:13:34 am

mini · April 14, 2007, 08:35:12 am

Spotted on the Hard Grit Slackjaw website - http://www.slackjaw.co.uk/climbingfilms/hgtfbtl.html - scoll to the bottom to see the guilty party!

Guess we are just following our heroes!

Fiend · April 20, 2007, 03:53:14 pm

http://upload.pbase.com/chris_craggs/image/77453901

Nibile · April 20, 2007, 04:00:11 pm

at least those tickmarks are there to save ones life.

SA Chris · April 21, 2007, 11:33:43 am

And it's not exactly like you can just brush them off once you have used them.

Fiend · April 23, 2007, 11:17:16 am

I have this vague suspicion that on leads of Meshuga (where the ticks might save one from injury), one might well be abseiling off for the cam in the break, and thus able to clean them then.

SA Chris · April 23, 2007, 11:22:07 am

But that it were vertical, you probably could.

Carnage · May 08, 2007, 11:25:17 pm

A couple of beauties here. But then Nowra is one big tickmark.

Nibile · May 09, 2007, 11:32:51 am

does a chipped tickmarked hold count as double?

Carnage · May 22, 2007, 04:35:41 am

This hold must be hard to see from a multitude of directions

(woz) · May 26, 2007, 11:08:06 am

Just seen this on UKC:
talk about climbing by numbers...

matthew · May 26, 2007, 12:00:42 pm

No! The youtube version doesn't have the scream on it!
https://www.posingproductions.com/video.php?form_action=play&video_id=77
much better and less techno.

account_inactive · November 04, 2007, 12:27:51 pm

What a mess

Donkey line / tick mark hall of shame. (Read 488711 times)

dave

Stubbs