In reply to Mick Ryan - UKClimbing.com:
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> This isn't new!!
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> In Bishop (groan not another Mick Bishop story), local climbers used to use Forest Service 'piss pumps' - portable canvas back backs containing water with a pump nozzle, to clean heavily chalked traverses and overhanging boulders.
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> We squirted water on the holds using the pumps and brushed the chalk holds with nylon brushes.
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> No grants were needed neither. We just borrowed the pumps off the Inyo National Forest and got on with it.
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> Mick
Some of the tick marks which are prevalent today are disgusting.
I think it's a good idea but they will have to be very careful.
We once took a Karcher washer and a small generator to Bridestones. We got a lot of the chalk off but if you got too close to the holds with the jet it got under the hard patina and blasted big chunks off.
Enty