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Best way to communicate closed crags 5-May-2017 At 3:33:38 AM pmonks

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On 4/05/2017 ajfclark wrote:
>Climbers seem to think bans don't apply to them personally anyway, so I
>think you're fighting an uphill battle.

Yeah. And then land managers come back with "you can't regulate yourselves, so watch us regulate your recreational activity off our land". #fail

>Signs at the access point seems to be the only method I know that prevents
>"oh, I didn't know - where did you find that? Online everywhere? I didn't
>look sorry..." and even then you still get "Oh, I didn't see the sign"
>"oh, the gate was unlocked" "oh, there's loads of tyre tracks around the
>gate so I thought it was ok" etc

Yep. Stupid selfish aßholes are everywhere... ...in the US they even have a fancy name for themselves to try to sound slightly less idiotic: "Libertarians".

On 4/05/2017 Duang Daunk wrote:
>Bro AJF is right, bring back the anarchy I say, as the only way said landowner
>will stop it is to make an example of an offender; hopefully not with a
>shotgun.

This is a city parks dept, so they're more likely to just ban climbing in the park altogether, which fscks it up for everyone. That's the outcome I'm working hard to avoid.