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glencoe
Jun 24, 2002, 3:07 PM
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You can buy coloring agents in the masonry dept. at any building supply--a small amount goes a long-long way. $5 in agent will last for years.
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rojo_diablo
Jun 24, 2002, 11:03 PM
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Here in Colorado at garden of the gods (the local spot) It's required to use a redish brown chalk. Although few climbers out there adhear to this practice. Becasue this colored chalk is slippery and not worth a damn. Although climbing on crumbly sandstone the rock usually sucks the moisture out of your hands.
Although instead of buying the colored chalk you could just take a hand full of the surounding dirt and mix it with your white chalk to produce a color the same as the rock.
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eminem_imposter
Jul 13, 2002, 10:59 PM
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i didnt even read the other posts so this may have been mentioned already. Hundreds, if not thousands of climbers, myself included, completely despise colored chalk for the fact that it creates a nasty spot on the rock, white looks bad enough but at least its somewhat natural compared to blue or green.
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timmyclimber
Jul 15, 2002, 7:59 PM
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i just got back from grand teton natl. park for a climbing trip. They just enforced the climbers "leave no trace" policy where climbers have to use colored chalk. I bought a trango harness/chalkbag/chalk package, got out there, chalked up and noticed it was dyed gray for the granite. Im not sure if that was the stores doing or the companies. It was one of those mesh ball style chalk.
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