[Bonjoy]

I must admit I am a shameful geek when it comes to ticking guidebooks. I'll tick or underline it in main text AND the grade list .
 My excuse is that i can flick thru my old guides and reminice(sp) about the good old days when i'm a senile old arthritic. But in truth it's probably got more to do with collecting things.
 I have friends who don't tick because they genuinely can't be arsed and have no interest in doing so. I also have friends who deny themselves because they see it as something of a sad trainspottery thing to do (but really want to and probably keep a route diary).

[dave]

i generally note the date and style of any route if i've got the guidebook to wrote it in. generally tick bouldering guides, and also use 8a.nu to log boulder shit of any note.

The Graded list is the most important part of any guide. :

[chappers]

i dont tick the book...BUT to my shame i have a bit of paper with all the problems i have done over v6  

[Bonjoy]

i generally note the date and style of any route if i've got the guidebook to wrote it in. generally tick bouldering guides, and also use 8a.nu to log boulder shit of any note.

The Graded list is the most important part of any guide. :

 I respect your thourouroughness(sp) Dave.
 I'm off to 8a.nu now for a peek :wink: .

[dave]

 I'm off to 8a.nu now for a peek :wink: .

please don't be to scatheing - generally for anything that in at a slightly optimistic grade theres 3 things that are in at lover grades!

[Stubbs]

Guilty - of ticking problems that i have done AND putting stars by stuff i want to try next time i go back to that crag, in case i forget!

[Bonjoy]

 I'm off to 8a.nu now for a peek :wink: .

please don't be to scatheing - generally for anything that in at a slightly optimistic grade theres 3 things that are in at lover grades!

 I'll let you off with that lot. It's the boys putting Famous Grouse in as 7c+!! :roll:  that need a good talking to. Soft 7b+ with the sit start I thought, easier than WSS for sure.

[dave]

problem with 8a.nu is that officially you're supposed to put in the standard guide/topo grade adn then comment if you disagree (hence people putting early doors at 7b+)/ I think the thoery behind it is that then everyone should have the same grade for a particular problem. I try to do this realistically although a lot of the time i put stuff in lower thats blatantly overgraded.

[Doylo]

I've had a route book since day one, first entry is 1991, faith on idwal slabs. Quite funny looking back through it now, wasn't exactly a natural climber.  Tickings great!

[squeek]

Ticks next to the things I do in the guidebook and graded list
if there is one, P (for project) next to things that I want to try
next time I go.  I have a little diary that I jot what I do when
I climb so I can see how I'm (hopefully) improving and just
to remember when I did what.  Plus it gives me something to
do when i'm on my own and having a rest.

[underground]

I never bothered ticking any boulder probs. but my caving logbook has everything in it. Even the little scraps of paper we've been drawing on in the boozer and that sort of stuff.
I ended up putting my logbook on a database cos I was writing a full blown article after every trip pretty much. One is 23000 words long.

[T.H.]

What's ticking?

[Bubba]

I used to be religious about it, but nowdays don't usually bother at all, unless I'm back home with nothing to do.

[the_dom]

I don't tick, because there're never really any guidebooks, but I try to keep a record of the sends I'm proud of...

[Fiend]

What's ticking?

http://www.ukbouldering.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=1942 ??

Anyway... I probably out-nerd the lot of you, I tick in the guide as normal but also have a comprehensive and entirely trainspottery logbook in which I meticulously record every route I've done with all the relevant details. Partly because I'm a nerd, partly because it's satisfying to keep a record, partly because it reminds me of great climbing times and stimulates the memories, and partly once I started it would have been strange to stop.

But I only tick boulder problems in the guide though.

[Andy B]

When I started climbing I naively thought that each climb was so memorable I wouldn't need to tick cos I could just roll them all of the top of my head.

14 years, and the after effects of many cocktails of mind altering drugs later there are entire trips I have no memory of, even when reminded by the people I was there with.  I sometimes look at guides and choose a good sounding route, only to discover on arrival at the crag (or sometimes halfway up the route) that i remember doing them before.

The upshot of this is that I regret not ticking in the past, and now record routes in my instructors log book cause i have to anyway, and record boulder problems by writing in the number of attempts if less than about four or five and just ticking them if they take longer than that. Although I think I am going to start dating them as well.

[dave]

Although I think I am going to start dating them as well.

What does emma think about that?  :bang:

[Andy B]

Although I think I am going to start dating them as well.

What does emma think about that?  :bang:

Shes a very open minded young lady.

A romantic evening, just her, me and a limestone problem.

I tried dating grit but it chaffes too much when you get to third base.

[Scouse D]

I tried dating grit but it chaffes too much when you get to third base.

You're not wrong, I was shitting blood for weeks

[webbo]

i used  to tick ,write the date done and with who i was with now i just tick but write all the bollocks in my diary such as how many attempts, style and how much of an emotional experience it was :shock:

[a dense loner]

used to tick then lost all my f***in guidebooks n vids. now it takes me ten mins to remember wot crag i went to on saturday, never mind wot probs i did. beginnin to think i shud ave partied harder when i was a yoof

[Fiend]

Okay, the trainspotting book:



Now full up  :wink: