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To Chalk or not to Chalk 1-Apr-2005 At 2:29:29 PM LittleMac

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On 1/04/2005 Goodvibes wrote:
>As an aside, there are plans to go ahead and wash much of the chalk off
>Wave wall and Ratcat wall at The Glen due to the visual impact of chalk
>on the large numbers of walkers in the area. As was the case with Tannin
>a while back I doubt you could ever completely remove it but you could
>certainly make it a lot less noticeable.

The cleaning attempt on Tannin was not as effective as it could of been mainly because of time constraints. The group doing the cleaning was a unversity group who had other things on their agenda for the short period of time that they were there. Given more time most of the chalk on that route could have been removed.

I agree with dalai when he says that climbers create much bigger environmental impacts by creating mazes of tracks etc around cliffs. 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. Attempts to remove the tracks have been higly ineffective (considerably less so than chalk removal attempts).