Donkey line / tick mark hall of shame. (Read 488557 times)

yorkshireman · September 24, 2011, 11:21:11 pm

We spent a few minutes cleaning chalk off ringpiece too.everywhere with a close by carpatk seems to attract the chalk whores

Eddies · September 24, 2011, 11:48:30 pm

I believe a Swiss team guided by a local are responsable!
https://twitter.com/#!/stevehoneyman

yorkshireman · September 25, 2011, 12:15:36 am

Maybe he needs to show them how to clean up after themselves too.

nathan wind · September 25, 2011, 08:30:13 am

Quote from: Eddies on September 24, 2011, 11:48:30 pm

I believe a Swiss team guided by a local are responsable!
https://twitter.com/#!/stevehoneyman

And maybe you need to get your facts straight before you use my titter feed to suggest that any of us were responsible.

I'm the 'local' in question and the line was like this before we got there.

robertostallioni · September 25, 2011, 08:34:23 am

BOOM!Good day out?

nathan wind · September 25, 2011, 08:55:16 am

Ha ha! Yes thanks Rob, it was..

nathan wind · September 25, 2011, 10:11:32 am

Quote from: yorkshireman on September 25, 2011, 12:15:36 am

Maybe he needs to show them how to clean up after themselves too.

Funny, we're laughing at your post right now.. or rather laughing at you..

Seriously, get your facts straight before you start spraying about people and situations you seemingly know nothing about - or maybe you'd like to come and explain to us where we're going wrong? The Swiss are here for a week after all, and they're keen to discuss crag ethics..

To be honest this kind of shit, ie posts such as your's really bug me.. I've lost count of the times I've picked shit up from blocs as diverse as Two Squirrels, Brad Pit etc - places only climbers go, are you gonna blame me or the pesky Europeans for this? I take it you're beyond reproach? Like me you take a litter bag up to pick other peoples shit up when you go out right? clean off other people's tick marks?

Comical really to think that these were the same guys who, that day, cleaned up a load of shit from around the crag that wasn't theirs, challenged a bunch of kids for throwing litter round the moor and as activists at places such as Magic and Chironico spend their time trying and reduce the impact of often foreign climbers who threaten access to their crags.

yorkshireman · September 25, 2011, 12:26:22 pm

Laugh all you want fella,my fact are perfectly right that the new statesman is covered in chalk and tick marks and wasn't cleaned off before it was left by the people who were working it.I never stated it was you,I never supplied the twitter link etc but regardless even if you didn't do it but went.on the route afterwards you should have cleaned it off as I'm sure some of the chalk was yours.I too pick up litter that's other peoples,most climbers do,you don't have a monopoly on that!

yorkshireman · September 25, 2011, 12:28:09 pm

Oh and boo hoo at giving me negative e karma you baby,grow up!

andy_e · September 25, 2011, 12:32:57 pm

Quote from: yorkshireman on September 25, 2011, 12:26:22 pm

I find it strange that you spout that you and your team were challenging kids for littering and were cleaning after others yet you can't clean after yourself

I find it strange that you can draw that from a post where he clearly says he does clean up after himself.

yorkshireman · September 25, 2011, 12:35:41 pm

Have changed my post as I missread his innitial post

a dense loner · September 27, 2011, 08:39:42 am

god you guys get a room. shortly i'm gonna walk to brad pit, put even more chalk on it n have a shit. just to liven the internet up a bit.
i'm glad this came up tho, it didn't go the way i'd been expecting over the last few years of everyone trying to bum each other to death over the net. what i expected was oooh i went for a walk holding daisies n saw a lot of chalk, i had to have a moment to myself in the lovely gritstone morning. when this passed i found myself stood near some poo, after coming back round i picked this up using one of the smaller of the 2 plastic bags i carry for such emergencies. i noticed the sweetcorn and suspected the guilty parties couldn't be from around these parts.
but this didn't happen, like i said it was a pleasant surprise.

Jim · September 27, 2011, 09:34:14 am

at least something cheering you up

nash1 · September 27, 2011, 12:00:00 pm

I know it's 8C, but still...
http://j.ukc2.com/i/182969.jpg

SA Chris · September 27, 2011, 12:02:34 pm

You'll need to put in the URL of the page, as UKC don't allow embedding.

I'm guessing it's the pic in Thomas Willenburg article though.

andy_e · September 27, 2011, 12:33:12 pm

Yes it is. Horrendous. Although the holds don't exist without a layer of chalk to make them bigger.

GCW · September 27, 2011, 12:35:24 pm

This article, but the image in question seems to have died.

andy_e · September 27, 2011, 12:45:17 pm

Only in your cache...

GCW · September 27, 2011, 12:57:41 pm

Shame, it was an eyesore.

Falling Down · October 22, 2011, 06:34:14 pm

Posted this on t'other channel. I'm not sure I can be arsed climbing much longer if this is the way its going.

Nipped out for a couple of hours at lunchtime to the plantation and was dismayed by several very visible tick marks, arrows and chalk lines on what are relatively easy problems. Worst of all, someone's been using coloured blackboard chalk (yes someone actually bought a pack of chalk sticks that we used at school to the crag to write on the rock!) to put circles and squares around hand or foot holds.

It took me and Brian a good 10 minutes to scrub a bright blue square off the Bullworker and there was an enormous foothold on the arête on the pebble that had been coloured in with pink and blue chalk and a massive f*ck off line with an arrow pointing to the hold. This was the starting foothold so it had clearly been decorated for someone incapable of getting off the ground.

We then spent half an hour cleaning various symbols and lines off the lone boulder. These are f*cking slab problems where you can see where you have to put your feet and hands.

If whoever did this is reading this post I hope you think next time before drawing lines everywhere.

I despair, I really do.

fried · October 22, 2011, 06:40:55 pm

I don't believe anyone here would be guilty of such stuff. But last time we attempted to discuss tick marks I seem to remember that people thought it was all a bit armchair and the other channel, so we'll just shut up about it then.

lagerstarfish · October 22, 2011, 08:12:55 pm

check this out from 0:50

metal arms · October 23, 2011, 07:57:04 pm

$:-\$

She looks like a donkey?

Anyway, cheers for that. Never seen an Adele video before. Now I'm off to bleach my eyes and cut off my ears.

GCW · October 27, 2011, 12:00:12 pm

I must be doing something wrong, I usually put chalk on my hands http://www.ukclimbing.com/images/dbpage.html?id=185106

i.munro · October 27, 2011, 12:54:57 pm

Quote from: GCW on October 27, 2011, 12:00:12 pm

I must be doing something wrong, I usually put chalk on my hands http://www.ukclimbing.com/images/dbpage.html?id=185106

That's nothing. A big bunch of lads (nationality unidentified) turned up on my last Bleau trip to try something we were working on so we moved away.
Their first action, before putting shoes on or anything was to literally fill all the holds with chalk using a brush as a spoon.