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That fart is amazing...  :weakbench: :lol: :clap2:

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Good volume and decent tone, poor sustain. 5/10

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It's a boot squeak surely  :shrug: the heel squishing in a bit

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Quote from: nai
the heel squishing in a bit

I just listened again on high volume and there is a similar noise at 1.33 again when he puts his heel up. It is however, much funnier to imagine it's a fart...

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Torridon and the Ship boulder in particular was a mess yesterday. It hasn't rained for a couple of weeks so you'd expect some build up of chalk, but it was obvious that no effort had been made to brush off the excess.

And then the tick marks. The first photo below is the jug on the slab at the top of Malc's. You can see this hold from the road, fair enough it might be sort of hidden when you are topping out, but if you've got the lip on Malc's I'm pretty sure you can hang around for the one second it takes to find this jug. No need and even if you do need, brush it off afterwards.
There were other ugly and unnecessary tick marks all over the boulder. 

Also, someone couldn't be arsed to walk 5 minutes to the toilet block and instead decided to take a shit right in the middle of the boulders. Thanks for that.
 
I'm really gutted because this is exactly what we feared when writing the guidebook.
I love it when people who have taken a gamble and travelled a long way are rewarded with good weather and get to experience the place at its finest.
And then they leave it like this...
 
I actually want it to rain now to clean the place up.

Untitled by richiebetts, on Flickr

Untitled by richiebetts, on Flickr

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Churnet on Sunday - plenty of tick marks that'll never be washed off by the rain and no attempt to brush them or keep them small.

This was the worst, maybe 5/6 inches long, I've no idea how they managed to get the chalk on as thick as they had  :shrug: Sorry about the size of the pic.


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Whoever made such a mess of brad pit should be ashamed. And how they can afford all that chalk I'll never know...

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Holy cow! It clearly wasn't dry!

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That's appalling. I could totally imagine the right hand end of the crimp rail breaking in those conditions.

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seen the other people there guessing by the tags?

a few who know the grit well...

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Saw another pic on Instagram yesterday of Boyager looking similarly caked.  :-\

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Hey, you Nazis! Hey, you fascists! Can't you see that fabi_buhl is trying to #livewithoutlimits? And here's you twats trying to impose limits on him and telling him not to climb. The rock can go fuck itself, fabi wants to send.

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How do we know that it's Fabi's chalk?

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Who gives a shit? We're on the bandwagon now and the next stop is Ragetown! Are you geddin' on?

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How do we know that it's Fabi's chalk?

It may not be his chalk, but by uploading the picture isn't he (unintentionally) promoting that type of chalking?

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He's replied to Dave's Instagram comment:

Quote from: Fabi Buhl
yes it is way to much but it was already chalked in, probably someone tried it just after the massive rainstorm earlier in the week. No worries we brushed it...

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 A Case of Mistaken Identity, at Apparent North, was left in a state on Sunday (at least a dozen tick marks left) after a big group (with at least one coach from The Works, who should know better and be setting a good example) moved on.

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Name and shame

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To clarify The Brad Pit situation - I was up there the same day with Fabi and Melissa.

a) Fabi stacked it on white wand and has busted his heel - he didn't climb all day.
b) BP was completely dry, so I dont think there was any chance of breakage - however, at the time of the chalking (on a previous day) that might have been a different situation. Fabi and Melissa both commented on the state of the problem - but it would have taken hours to try and clean the whole thing up. The tick marks were obscene - so they were all brushed off before leaving. I've no idea who put that chalk on there, but they are a f*cking idiot - There's no reason to cover the whole of the topout in chalk. It will need a good rain to clear up.
c) Neither Mason nor Mina were there.

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Name and shame

I don't know their name, I've just seen them Working at The Works, and I'm not interested in witch hunts anyway.

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I'm not suggesting that Fabi and Melissa were climbing BP while wet, but I have definitely seen posts of locals climbing routes while raining. And one's who really should know better.

Considering the number of indoor walls, concrete boulders and perma-dry crags surely there's always another option.

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Not a massive crime in the great scheme of things, but FFS

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I disagree. People who can't embed photos properly should be shot.

 

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