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To Chalk or not to Chalk 1-Apr-2005 At 2:08:53 PM Goodvibes

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Ok maybe I got a bit carried away itchy but if you go back and read the first page you will see a number of posts indicating that they thought it ok to use chalk on vert or slabby routes as the rain washes it off. Thus inferring that using chalk on anything steep is not acceptable.

Good on you for holding back but for me, I feel it gives me too much of a boost to give it up. Like I said earlier, use it only when you need to.

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.