An Attempt is Not a Tick

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Sup michael!

A tick is what you get underneath your armpit when looking for FA's.

Cheers!

mountainhick wrote: It matters to me when viewing someone's tick list as a source of information to assess a potential partner. If they are forthcoming and realistically truthful, it is a potentially good indicator to hook up. But if they say or their profile says they lead 5.X and the tick list shows one or two 5.X with hangs and falls and the the only clean leads are several grades lower. I see that as a mismatch in a person's self perception... non starter. And if someone falsifies info on a tick list and can't actually climb what they say they can it can be a safety issue.

I deal with this by just lying profusely on my MP tick list.  Hell I haven't even been to half those states. 

Stop trying to take away my participation trophies! 

Greg Davis wrote: Sup michael!

A tick is what you get underneath your armpit when looking for FA's.

Cheers!

Plenty of those over at south woodsen, just ask the locals!1!1!!!1!

Michael Lagueux wrote: Lots of people "tick" climbs on this site without actually sending the climb.  They'll put "attempt" or something along those lines.  It seems to be more common with boulder problems.

I always thought that "ticking a climb" meant that you sent it.  So if you didn't actually send it, then you don't get to tick it!

You know my opinion, so what's yours?

I completely agree with you, you haven't "ticked" a route until you send it, however, just because MP has a tick feature doesn't mean that you have to use it only for routes you have ticked.  Many people (myself included) just use the MP feature as a diary of routes we have climbed in any style, it's not our fault that MP calls it a tick when it's not one.

I put climbs I want to get on in my "to do list" here on MP. Ticks reserved just for ticks. Is that an opinion? 

Old lady H wrote:

My opinion is if you wanna try and judge my worth as a potential partner based solely on my tick marks on MP, without actually talking to me like a real partner would, you is a fool. Get off my lawn, and don't let the gate whap ya in the ass on your way out, eh?

I've "ticked" plenty I've not "sent", and a few I've not even climbed. Catching a fall and gaining a best friend matters too.Keeping track of those kind people around the country I've climbed with or hosted here in Boise is a main use of tracking for me. When climbing becomes solely about the "send", just shoot me please?

Rating a climb, yes, please climb the thing. Ticks? Geez, who cares? Wait. You do, for some reason.....

Best, Helen

I honestly can't tell if you try hard to be a "character" on here or what the deal is.

I can't say I have ever looked at anyones tick list but I understand why people would to get a idea of the person they may be climbing with. I have climbed with a lot of random characters off MP and never had a bad experience and almost always been the one who was struggling to keep up. I also do not keep my tick list current, mainly because I climb a lot with a guy who walks up to routes and says "lets do this one!" and I am like "what is it called?" he's like "no idea, looks 5.7..." I proceed to flail on it and he may bump the grade to 5.8...

I use the fell/hung option when I have completed the climb to the chains but maybe fell or took. I maybe can do all the moves but didn’t link them etc. If I fell or hung and didn’t make it to the chains then I don’t tick it. If I have climbed it previously in good style and I repeat the climb I just mark a vanilla “lead”. That’s how I roll. What others do I don’t mind.

Dan Daugherty wrote:

I use the todo option if I haven't sent the route and add a tick when I actually made it to the anchors. 

You can't add a route to the todo section more than once, so if you are actually tracking things like number of climbs you have gotten on, or number of attempts to send a route, that option doesn't work.

I linked two 7 pitch routes in RR, and weighted the rope momentarily on one pitch when a hold broke.  What can I tick?  Does that mean the whole day and all 14 pitches were for naught?

My issue isn't really about how climbers record their climbs for themselves. The annoyance comes when someone tells me they're climbing 5.whatever. Then I find out they aren't unless they hang dog the whole route, or make many redpoint attempts and memorize the route to finally get it clean...

IMO your are a 5.whatever climber if you can onsite it. Redpointing and hanging is all good, but don't claim that level if you cannot onsite it.

Brian Abram wrote: For years, 35+ year old 5.9 to 5.10- trad climbers have consistently been the people most concerned about how other people approach climbing. It's some kind of weird ego integrity thing that is often accompanied by weak sauce excuses for their own weak sauce sends

"Yeah so I took 5 times on that 5.9 but it was like super sandbagged and at least I'm not a sport climber"

Preach.

Last time I used a tick, I got Lymes disease. 

Artem Vasilyev wrote:

By this standard, nobody climbs 5.15

Exactly.

If using the word "tick" in the British sense of buying on credit, there is a case to be made that an attempt is indeed a tick.

Roots wrote: My issue isn't really about how climbers record their climbs for themselves. The annoyance comes when someone tells me they're climbing 5.whatever. Then I find out they aren't unless they hang dog the whole route, or make many redpoint attempts and memorize the route to finally get it clean...

IMO your are a 5.whatever climber if you can onsite it. Redpointing and hanging is all good, but don't claim that level if you cannot onsite it.

So what you are saying is, route ticks are actually helpful, because if someone says “I’m a 5.12 climber”, and they have only dogged a couple of 5.12a’s, you can draw conclusions from that? ;)

Josh Rappoport wrote: I linked two 7 pitch routes in RR, and weighted the rope momentarily on one pitch when a hold broke.  What can I tick?  Does that mean the whole day and all 14 pitches were for naught?

If you only climbed it to fulfill some arbitrary standard than yes, you are an absolute failure and should probably quit climbing. 

Josh Rappoport wrote: I linked two 7 pitch routes in RR, and weighted the rope momentarily on one pitch when a hold broke.  What can I tick?  Does that mean the whole day and all 14 pitches were for naught?

Did Killis steal your backpack full of gear from the base and then dump it at a local gear shop a little lighter a few days later?

Yeah, you can tick it.