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I use a gun cleaning brush. It has very stiff nylon bristles and 2 head sizes. I wouldnt use anything else for small areas. And its fits in the brush holder on the chalk bag perfect. Now if your cleaning a larger area for a new project or something like that a bigger brush is req. If your cleaning new lines on boulders around here a blast of agent orange works best, and maybe a chain saw or two.

And kinda off the subject and not to beat a dead horse. If you use pussy marks (aka tick marks) clean the damn things off. Its just rude not to.

now isn't comments like that what got us in trouble in the first place

you know I dont mean that Merrick. I clean as little as possible.

and i am clean as little as possible

o lord...no one can dare comment on tick marks at the red... this beloved crag has more paint by number routes than anywhere else East of Red Rocks, Nevada.

I agree!

I was up at Lions Head this past July and the "Mad Ticker" had visited there too. Porter's route up there Rum, Sodomy & The Lash, which is great BTW was ticked to high heaven and back! It was awful. Even the jugs were ticked! I don't understand it. If you're gonna tick routes just put light marks on the small feet or crimps you need when the climbing's difficult. Don't draw thick lines with a block of chalk that never come off! It takes the fun out of it for people who climb the route next and is unesthetic to look at for everyone!

Be considerate...if your gonna tick do it lightly and brush them of when you're done.

Thanks

I think I have it figured out as far as the huge, bold tic marks at the Red.
If someone is doing it for themselves, they are very small and subtle marks.
We get the big ones when you have the "One Bad Ass Leader" and a flock of gumbies with him/her.
As the "BAL" is on his/her way up the route, they tic mark the holds while exclaiming as loud as possible so that everyone within earshot can hear just how to use the hold he/she has just ticked.
This loud voice is neccesary so if there happen to be any other climbers around who do not climb as "hard" will be impressed as well.
Repeat this process until the anchors have been reached and the flock is drooling in anticipation while shaking with fear, knowing they are next up.
Of course the marks must stay, because the BAL is doing everyone a favor.

If its grid bolted its gonna be grid chalked. Even the cracks are bolted in the southern region , chalk cant be far behind.

a thousand years from now, geologists are going to be wondering how the chalk deposits formed on the underside of any heavily featured cliffs all over the world.

merrick wrote:a thousand years from now, geologists are going to be wondering how the chalk deposits formed on the underside of any heavily featured cliffs all over the world.

All the homo sapien skin cells and DNA might help them figure it out