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Best way to communicate closed crags 4-May-2017 At 12:49:41 AM pmonks

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So I'm working with a land manager who has banned climbing on one of the outcrops on land they manage (no great loss - it's a pile of choss anyway). I'm now looking at ways to communicate this closure to local climbers, who use both a local printed guidebook (which doesn't list the outcrop at all) and various online guides (most of which do list the outcrop, but say that climbing there is banned).

One of these online resources (but by no means the only) is TheCrag, who appear to have a policy of removing location information upon request of the land manager. I happen to think that's counterproductive in this case, since the banned outcrop is in the middle of a park in a large city (population pressure is high), is obviously visible from numerous points in the park (including several of the legally climbable outcrops), and (from a distance) looks quite promising.

In general, do you think the most effective form of communicating this kind of closure to local climbers is to: