[Andy B]

I can see your point, and I too use an occasional tick mark, but many people will copy what they see in mags and videos, and so I would be prepared to miss out on seeing a few good shots of problems or routes if it helped reduce the amount tick marks being left. There are many more controversial practices which occur, with much more positive intentions and outcomes than tick marks, that aren't made explicit in the media.

[Adam Lincoln]

Seeing as you asked so nicely Tom

http://www.flickr.com/photos/simonjacques/4057399679/#

I recommend you don't go to look at the mess at the top of End Of The Affair then. The size of a large dinner table of name chipping, all bordered in a sun rays effect. Fresh in last few weeks i would say.

[neil h]

look at the size of these thuckers we found on the madarine

the thing is you dont even need them as when you do the move its a blind slap 

I tried the route and could not do the move with the tick marks there casue they were throwing us out, We scrubbed the tick marks of and I did the moves next try without them 

[GCW]

Neil, you're my hero 

[slackline]

look at the size of these thuckers we found on the madarine

the thing is you dont even need them as when you do the move its a blind slap 

I tried the route and could not do the move with the tick marks there casue they were throwing us out, We scrubbed the tick marks of and I did the moves next try without them 

How were they throwing you out if you can't see them on the move?  Did you find a better part of the hold or something?  ???

[neil h]

well you just cant see them, its a blind slap, vid soon, and yes they were in the wrong place, I found a way of using the holds better, and by putting a little tick mark above the hold means you can actually see were you heading for

[dobbin]

The man in the foreground has an ArcTeryX Gamma MX hoody on. Nice colour.

[SA Chris]

Thus spake the Sugar Ape.

What's hot for the coming fall collection?

[Bonjoy]

Snappy duds!

[andy_e]

He also has a collection of mobile phones he stole off children by the looks of things...

[fiveknuckle21]

Has anyone seen "Dose at Albarracin" on the UKB vimeo group? If not, prepare to be appalled.

[aly]

Not specifically tick marks but chalk, the top holds of Gorilla Warfare were an absolute disgrace thismorning, it looked as if someone has poured chalk over them all and not brushed any of it off - clean up after yourselves please!!  I cleaned it up as much as possible and hopefully the rain will finish the job.  The (unchalked) crimps on Early Doors were no harder to hold despite not being plastered in the white stuff so I'm not sure it even helps.


As an aside - do any locals know how you are supposed to start the full Gorilla Warfare?  I stepped off the block near the end, matching the sloping rail of GW, did the normal GW finish, hand traversed the lip left to the offwidth, went down this and finished back up Extended Warfare.  Is this right?
cheers

[Jaspersharpe]

No, it's very wrong.

[dave]

normal gorilla warefare/earlydoors/extended warefar start on the low flake rigth of the offwidth. The historical original GW starts on the left end of the block, traverses the lip, down the offwidth, along extended warefare then finishes across the vertical end face to the far arete.

what you've done is some fucked up rocher-canon style figure-of-eight linkup.

[aly]

Ahh OK - thanks for that.  I don't know where I got the idea that it traversed the lip leftwards from the top of GW.   

Oh well, only need to figure out how to work Early Doors in now for some wacky stamina links 

[dr crimp]

any one checked out the tick line of all donkey marks from the s7 guru on page 101 of the peak bouldering guide.

[tallsop]

Thats disgusting, never noticed that before, its like uv played a weird darren brown trick on me! News Flash - Tick marking - down to Ben Moon's subliminal messages aired by the media!!!!!!!!! Everybody is a victim (apart from JB, who 'spits' instead)

[GCW]

Forgot to repost the Paul Mitchell eliminate pic (clickable thumb):

[neil h]

 

[lagerstarfish]

That pic reminds of that Myra Hindley portrait made using children's hand prints... on more than one level

[slackline]

Forgot to repost the Paul Mitchell eliminate pic (clickable thumb):

I'm almost tempted to register on photobucket.com just to ask which of the holds were eliminated!!!

Fucking atrocity 

[GCW]

I am told that the characteristic vein features are out.  Makes sense.

[Grubes]

the hardest eliminate is to climb that problem with out touching anthing that is chalked up

[mrjonathanr]

Paul has a decent climbing pedigree and isn't a fool, whcih makes the excess of chalk particularly surprising.

[Snoops]

Paul has a decent climbing pedigree and isn't a fool, whcih makes the excess of chalk particularly surprising.