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moonbeam wrote:Who is belaying this fuck-stick? Is it a local?

Good question!

The point isn't what color the tick marks are, the point is that using white chalk is the norm now-a-days. It isn't ideal to use chalk at all from an environmentalist stand-point, I agree, but why make a problem worse than it already is by using different colored chalk. Last season I was climbing out at Curbside and someone had left these massive (like 1-inch think by 5-inches long)tick marks on a route using white chalk, in my opinion that's just as bad as using blue chalk to tick up a route. So, instead of ticking a route up with excessive white chalk or with different colored chalk, why don't we try to fix a problem by brushing off our ticks after we finish a route and then it won't be as big of a problem. So why don't we stop pissing and moaning about whose being a hippocrite and instead just stop being lazy and clean up after ourselves when we are out at a crag.

Got blue chalk?

FITM's are the best. Blue ticks are just silly!

Jeff wrote:

Ha ha, I thought the same thing when I first saw the title. I have two redbones so I was all ready to talk about how cool coonhounds are.

Oh yea, this guys needs to be given hell. If everyone takes up this practice then the walls will look like graffiti, and it is a struggle as is to maintain cleanliness in the red, what with the influx of inconsiderate tourist in years past. It's gotta stop somewhere and colored tick marks is it. And I agree... this person hopefully doesn't want to be "that guy".

maine wrote:

moonbeam wrote:Who is belaying this fuck-stick? Is it a local?

Good question!

I second that

I thought this was a joke, but I actually saw the blue tick marks this weekend. They are like 8 inches long too. Stupid F$%*!ing
idiot.

yeah, this dude does not discriminate either! those blue tick marks are on some shitty routes! so shitty i want even say,because then everyone would know that i was there!