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chalk is crazy overused mostly as some sort of psychological 'tick', seems to me. i can't understand how one guy doing a route could change the color, that just seems wildly excessive unless intentional. and maybe makes the point that chalked up routes are an indignity. most of the perspiration that causes me issues comes down my arms and not from the inside of my hands anyway and even then chalk is already on most holds. this just seems like a provocation. kill him.

climb2core wrote:http://www.rockclimbing.com/gear/Essent ... 12211.html

We all agree chalk is an unsightly and not going to go away part of climbing. Why not make the trend and go to something like above? We can find our own manufacturer, sell it at Miguels and on Amazon, have Ray make the suggestion "strongly advise rock tone chalk" in his book, start with all the cool bad ass climbers using it, and then have the profits go to RRGCC...

Will never happen. Unless the RRGCC made it mandatory w/in the PMRP and had check points at all the entrances to the cliffs, checked each climber's chalk bag and then had self-policing procedures at each cliff as well.

.....again, no way will it ever happen. So many climbers coming from all over the world to climb here...no chance.

shear wrote:

climb2core wrote:http://www.rockclimbing.com/gear/Essent ... 12211.html

We all agree chalk is an unsightly and not going to go away part of climbing. Why not make the trend and go to something like above? We can find our own manufacturer, sell it at Miguels and on Amazon, have Ray make the suggestion "strongly advise rock tone chalk" in his book, start with all the cool bad ass climbers using it, and then have the profits go to RRGCC...

Will never happen. Unless the RRGCC made it mandatory w/in the PMRP and had check points at all the entrances to the cliffs, checked each climber's chalk bag and then had self-policing procedures at each cliff as well.

.....again, no way will it ever happen. So many climbers coming from all over the world to climb here...no chance.

http://www.rense.com/general81/dw.htm

[quote="dustonian"]I think he's around. Younger dude from Alaska...

What in the hell is he doing here? Hard core sport climbers confuse the shit out of me.

ted wrote:

dustonian wrote:I think he's around. Younger dude from Alaska...

What in the hell is he doing here? Hard core sport climbers confuse the shit out of me.

losing much respect real quickly...lol...you didnt seriously try to compare Ky sport climbing with anything in Alaska....Ky is a world class destination..not difficult at all to know why he is here..none at all.

Alaska is just full of mosquitos.

climb2core wrote:

shear wrote:

climb2core wrote:http://www.rockclimbing.com/gear/Essent ... 12211.html

We all agree chalk is an unsightly and not going to go away part of climbing. Why not make the trend and go to something like above? We can find our own manufacturer, sell it at Miguels and on Amazon, have Ray make the suggestion "strongly advise rock tone chalk" in his book, start with all the cool bad ass climbers using it, and then have the profits go to RRGCC...

Will never happen. Unless the RRGCC made it mandatory w/in the PMRP and had check points at all the entrances to the cliffs, checked each climber's chalk bag and then had self-policing procedures at each cliff as well.

.....again, no way will it ever happen. So many climbers coming from all over the world to climb here...no chance.

http://www.rense.com/general81/dw.htm

Touché, Sir...however, getting climbers to use that kind of chalk is EVEN MORE far fetched than any of these ideas.

The only way would be if Bison chalk made blocks of the colored stuff...no new company making colored chalk. No superchalk colored (which is the worst brand of chalk ever)...it would have to be something actually usable. Not some gimmick chalk.

I think the important thing right now is to stop the blue ticked bandito. I have a friend, that will remain nameless...who was renowned for his OCD tickmarking of routes in Rifle...arrows, L's and R's...vectored tickmarks on footholds. Dude climbs hard, but the ticks were incredible. Finally had to ridicule him into submission...now just small ticks and brushes them off. Which is definitely a compromise.

Colored chalk is a terrible idea for many reasons, but lets not forget that the rock in the red varies in color from black, orange, red, yellow, and grey. Sometimes all of these colors in one route. So should I get chalk in all colors and have five chalk bags on.

Andrew wrote:Colored chalk is a terrible idea for many reasons, but lets not forget that the rock in the red varies in color from black, orange, red, yellow, and grey. Sometimes all of these colors in one route. So should I get chalk in all colors and have five chalk bags on.

90% of the routes are brown/orange in color. It would be much better than white everywhere. Wearing 5 chalk bags is your call.

Maybe you could start a new thread with your colored chalk fantasy, Ian... this one's drifting.

climb2core, they are only opposed because they got to the playground first with white chalk. white blends in no better (perhaps worse) than blue, so the only logical reason to tell the dude to not use it is it is hard to remove. the "eyesore" argument is super lame.