How Do You Qualify Your Route Ticks?

Dan Cooksey wrote:

I'm the opposite, I use mine to compensate for other short comings.

Haha, wouldn't most of our tick lists on here just be another short coming. We are all so short of soloing El Cap!

Jeff Scheuerell wrote:

Haha, wouldn't most of our tick lists on here just be another short coming. We are all so short of soloing El Cap!

Speak for yourself.

I tick everything I get to the top of, and will make a note if I fell/hung, but mostly it will be comments about who I was with or components of the climb I liked/disliked for my own reminiscing. I'm not trying to impress anyone. And if I was trying to impress someone, it wouldn't work; I'm not a very good climber.

Great stuff!

Dan Cooksey wrote:

Speak for yourself.

You onsited it!?!?!?!?!?! Better than Honnald himself!

its like that diary you're always "accidentally" leaving open

i like the graphs and data, so i tick everything, routes, pitches, style, comment if it was special for some reason or i just wanted to say something.

it's a convenient side-effect that i can use it as a climbing resume for a potential partner.

Haaaaaha! Nice Job bro!

i just mark em in my guidebooks. no need to put them on here or anywhere else. back in the early 90s, me and my buddy took the rv across country for a month and a half, stopping along the way at anywhere worthwile. nrg, seneca, t wall, hueco tanks, needles, mt lemmon, red rocks, bishop, yosemite, tahoe,,, blah blah blah..... aside from a few guidebooks i grabbed, at the time what i did was photocopied out of climbing rags all the topos they used to publish of cool places. we had a huge stack of 8 1/2 by 11 guides of the best climbs at places that actually helped us not get lost. looking back i wish i had enough scratch to dump on books for all those areas, as some stuff we just looked at not knowing wtf it was, and just went for it. be nice to actualy have all those climbs checked off to know what they were. i find myself going through the topos on here trying to find climbs from then, but ones like say, j tree, are next to impossible to find when i look. live n learn.

Anytime I rope and pull onto the rock, I tick it as appropriate. If I have to bail, I’ll note it in the comments. (@MP devs: Why is there no bailed option?)

Ticks and the associated comment on MP are for my own use, and don't reflect much of anything. I don't tick everything, but do tick something if I have reason, and put in personal comments so I can keep track of trips, partners, out of town climbers I host, and any other small bit I want to remember. I'm pretty up front about what I climb, and do expect people to actually talk to me if that matters. I often don't give a shit if I got to the top of a climb....if it's the hand crack bottom half I'm interested in, or practice placing gear, whatever.

I'm on the third copy of one of our guidebooks. They have to go along, to be useful, and get bashed to pieces, lol! Not a good place to keep notes for ticks, although I do have notes for which routes are where added.

Best, Helen

I mainly just use my ticks and to dos to make a quick mental list of goals before going back to a crag, or add some useful beta for the next guy.

I'm also pretty terrible at remembering to tick things so my "system" doesn't work very well. Some days I come home stoked and tick up the place, other years I forget

I think an improvement would be to show each user only once in the initial view of ticks for a route.
I don't normally wish to see someone's multiple entries.  There could be a further sub list where you could click on a username and see all their previous entries for that route.

Pretty tough to call anything logged on MP "Spray" when the only way someone else will see them is to go click on my page.  My ticks are for my own mental records - why would I maintain an excel spreadsheet or somesuch when MP exists? 

I like to track how many climbs I have done total and the location of them. I also like to know how many of a given grade I have done.  If I was to tick a project multiple times then the tick count for a given grade would increase drastically and through off my auto generated chart.   This has me only ticking the climb once, but I would also like to track how many days I get out, how many total pitches I do over a given time, and how many attempts it takes to do routes.  This leaves me torn on the best way to use the tick feature.  If only an update could be made to separate a send tick from an attempt burn, but that would be crazy talk.

I tick only some stuff I do, the rest lives in an offline spreadsheet. Mostly I tick things that are meaningful to me, like an epic flail, finally getting the redpoint, or just remarking the route is really good or bad. Personally, I find it useful to browse the ticks and notes of a route I'm considering and not just planning to try to onsight. It is helpful to know if 15 someones say it's a dangerous runout chosspile before I rack up and I like to share the same information if I find a route meets those criteria. Or if it's awesome and protects well with say, a particular critical piece of gear. I often get this info from folks in person at the crag if I see them around but having a little comment here or there online is nice too.

Also useful to flag some climbs as good to-do choices for areas I haven't been. As for spray, I don't care what someone does but sometimes I see what friends I haven't seen in a while are up to and I'll ask them about their experience on a given route or area later if I notice they ticked something. 

I "tick" my routes on thecrag.com -- it gives a lot of flexibility in how I record each tick.  I do this because I like to have a log or history of what I've climbed and how I've been climbing -- not to show off to others, but for personal interests.  (Similarly, I play board-games and record my plays on boardgamegeek.com -- for personal interest and history.)

It also allows me to answer about whether I've been somewhere, whether the trip to South Africa was in 2017 or 2016, and so on.  So, externalizing my failing memory.