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the shizzle => chuffing => Topic started by: Andy F on April 08, 2009, 04:47:34 pm

Title: Sticky damp on routes
Post by: Andy F on April 08, 2009, 04:47:34 pm

Does this actually exist? At the cove yesterday I may just have experienced this mysterious, mythical phenomena. It had just rained before my redpoint and the holds seemed twice the size they normally did, the friction perfect.  :-\

What are the expected weather conditions for sticky damp to appear?

Title: Re: Sticky damp on routes
Post by: GCW on April 08, 2009, 04:54:26 pm

I've experiences sticky damp at Trowbarrow and at Stoney.  It always seems to be either when it's just rained, or when it's about to and temperatures drop.  It's good though!

Title: Re: Sticky damp on routes
Post by: Fiend on April 08, 2009, 08:40:22 pm

Good topic. This issue needs to be explored and it needs more SCIENCE.

I don't know if I've experienced sticky damp per se - it seems to be more of a lime phenomena. But I think there is also a post shower freshness where chalk and grease have been cleaned off....so it's sometimes hard to know what's what in conditions science....

Title: Re: Sticky damp on routes
Post by: Andy F on April 08, 2009, 08:44:23 pm

But at malham the routes very rarely get directy wet from rain, so there can't be any cleaning effect  :shrug:

Title: Re: Sticky damp on routes
Post by: GCW on April 08, 2009, 09:01:39 pm

No, it's not about holds getting wet, it's just the atmospheric conditions.

Title: Re: Sticky damp on routes
Post by: dave on April 09, 2009, 09:15:00 am

there is no real evidence for it, but it is scientific fact.

Title: Re: Sticky damp on routes
Post by: meatball on April 09, 2009, 11:38:34 am

i had an experience of the sticky damp at the tor on monday! maybe thats why i felt so close to my first F8a  :-\