with my age and general decrepiside.i can't see things so mark them up also i then forget rub them off.sometimes i even forget what i've gone to the crag for and just walk round drawing little lines.
this is wrong on so many levels:not only it is a horrible way to tick a foothold, but also it means the most idiotic sequence to do that problem (unless you are 2 meters tall).
It's a starting handhold...
Yeah DWR was fucked on friday. It was as if CAMP's factory had exploded and the fallout had settled on almscliff...
Don't get me started on cigarette butts either! Not cool!
It's obscene . . .. . . that climbers believe they are the most appropriate guardians of rocky places, and that perhaps they are the only group to use them. I wonder what other people - in the Peak, for example - think of the filth we leave on such gorgeous brown and green rocks? The fag and joint stubs; chalk wrappers; empty cans etc.. Climbers are extraordinarily selfish in this respect ie: the lack of. Not to say we are the only abusers of special places, but really - so much of this destructive behaviour is avoidable.And yes, I do have a hangover!
Coloured chalk?
What we have here is the development of a ritual. The extension of an initially ad hoc and almost certainly quite useful indication of "where the fucking hold is" to something done to invoke the hold's presence after the 300th failure to do the problem. Ticking a hold is now like chalking up: you don't do it because you need to but because it is part of the psyching for doing the problem. You could PhD's on this shit
