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ronolsen
Jun 7, 2007, 3:07 PM
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svilnit wrote: ronolsen wrote: Wire brushes work great on Boulder Canyon granite. Before: [image]http://www.mountainproject.com/images/62/42/105856242_large_650af5.jpg[/image] After: [image]http://www.mountainproject.com/images/62/38/105856238_large_57ef1b.jpg[/image] Good lord... don't let the environmentalists see this thread. You will have them all knocking at your back door. Remember the studies that were up on here a couple of years ago about the impact of climbers on vegetation? Can you imagine what they would say if they saw this? 
Yawn.
Maybe they'd better go after all those nasty people pulling weeds in their gardens and killing dandelions on their lawns too.
No endangered dirt, moss, or lichen was removed by this cleaning effort.
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zionvier
Jun 7, 2007, 3:10 PM
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I'm much lazier than you guys, I have a power inverter and air compressor in my car. I just stand at the bottom with the air compressor running and sand blast blast the entire face from a distance. I figure it's the equivalent of 1000 years of windstorms compressed into 5 minutes (or in my case an 8 gallon tank), what's the harm in that? This way all the hard work is done and then I just haul the compressor line up with me as I rap down to get the last bit that might still be left on the holds. No need for a toothbrush or anything like that. Stick with the Tim Taylor philosophy, it gets new routes established in days instead of weeks.
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zionvier
Jun 7, 2007, 3:13 PM
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ronolsen wrote: No endangered dirt, moss, or lichen was removed by this cleaning effort.
endangered dirt.... aka Cryptobiotic Soil
(oh and I typically just use nylon brushes and elbow grease)
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gb3985
Jun 7, 2007, 3:16 PM
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I'm working on a new area and have been useib=ng a wire brush on hard sand stone and it's working fine.I'm also useing a push broom with corse nylon brissles and thats working out great.
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rizzuh
Jun 7, 2007, 4:09 PM
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Whoa; thanks for all 28 replies. The rock is super hard water-polished granite. Pretty sharp edges with basically no friction on the face. Anyway, I'm going to start off with a toilet brush and jug of water... I think that should do the trick.
Thanks again; I'll try to post the before and after pics.
-Nic
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thabadcharacter
Jun 19, 2007, 7:59 PM
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Can I venture a guess as to what route it is you are climbing?
A certain 10b/c face climb in Middle Earth that just recently got some new hardware? Am I close?
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rizzuh
Jun 20, 2007, 3:10 AM
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Nah man; I haven't climbed too much at Middle Earth; keep hearing good things about it; gotta check it out. Originally I was planning to clean Quantum Leap on the Main Wall but I'm going to clean up The Wasp instead.
Send me a PM if you're out at the gorge often; I try to climb mornings.
-Nic
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