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To Chalk or not to Chalk 3-Apr-2005 At 4:30:24 PM Rocky

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wats all the fuss about cleaning up chalk, if people didnt use nearly as much or none at all, there wouldnt have to be working bees to clean tannin or the gallery, why make people who detest the use of chalk clean up after others who put the chalk there in the first place. with the whole sweating thing, if you actually keep yourself calm and try to relax when on the crux, as hard as it sounds, it is actually possible, you wont sweat as much. even so, just wipe the sweat on your pants, its not rocket science.

> One only has to sit on the ledge below Tannin to see the damage tracks have had and when I compare this damage with the chalk on Tannin I feel that the chalk is far less damaging.

i dont kno how recently people have actually been to arapiles, i actually live in Natimuk, but the blocking of tracks and revegetation has been highly successful at the Organ Pipes.

>Real climbers dont use chalk, chalk is for little girls who play hopscotch!!!!!!

very true rocky, but slightly more violent then i might have put it. i happen to like hopscotch... but i'll take that hit.

i actually used to have a shirt that had that written on the back with a hand behind one of those circles with the cross over it. i wore it with pride!!

to all youse bagging out walkers, whats wrong with them? what did they do wrong? there is absolutley nothing wrong with them going for a walk in the natural environment, and if they should complain, bad luck on chalk users, they deserve it, you wouldnt complain if you came home after a day at the rocks and found your home graffitied all over, you wouldnt complain would you? its the same principles. the bush is there for every one, not just rock climbers, you cant blame walkers for being human!

shame to all you chalk addicts, shame on you cretans!
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