[horn]

Wild Country and Outside organise a "Crag Clean Up Day" every year. It gets a really good turn out, and there's a free barbecue in the evening and prizes too as an incentive. It's on the 27th of June this year. I know you should clear shit up whenever you're out and about, but it seems to really concentrate peoples efforts.

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[tomtom]

Just back from X - Moo you did a superb job on the trees. Effort - and waddage due. I was wrong about leaving them - it'll look fine in a few weeks...

[Bonjoy]

Highrepute cleared this up last night. 

[DAVETHOMAS90]

 Hey, that's great news. Great effort. I'll look him up for the +1

 

As an aside, I was out at Crag X a little earlier

..... so many tick marks. It looked a mess.
JR, Superman, Hulk, Egg problems etc, etc. 

I'll try to post them up later. It's a little worrying, how much abuse this crag is getting. I think we need to try to encourage a little Crag X lore in my opinion. 

[tomtom]

Hi Dave - I was there this morning so some of the little ticks on JR would be mine. Tbh, I don't think they were bad at all.. There were some heavier thick ticks on some of the footholds but it's not as bad as what I saw at Helsby the other day (pic below).

I think the crag is pretty well looked after I've never had to pick up any tape or other litter - and if I didn't climb - I think my eyes would probably be drawn first to the chunky wooden ladder that resides there rather than some little tick marks..

(Of course someone might have got there after me and sprayed the place with chalk!)

[tomtom]

(Just re read that and it came across a bit arsey! Sorry - didn't mean to come across like that!)

[DAVETHOMAS90]

(Just re read that and it came across a bit arsey! Sorry - didn't mean to come across like that!)

Nope didn't come across as that at all.

But I think if you're going to use them, perhaps you ought to take responsibility for them, and brush them off. I can't stand them, and find them really intrusive - as much as the assumption that other people won't mind because they're only small. Not sure I go with this argument that your's are OK because someone else's are worse, either.

People will just see tick marks, and not differentiate.. When I got there it was a real mess.

I was worried about the chopping up of the tree too, given the sensitivity of the area. Other people will have a different opinion to me on that though.

Anyway, how was the climbing? I really couldn't climb a thing. Just popped in for a look see with a friend, Matt. All pretty warm and greasy, I thought.
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