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VCC/CliffCare Route Development Moratorium-GNP 11-Nov-2018 At 10:05:39 PM jacksonclimbs

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See Dave Scarlett's comment on the Open Spaces post in regards to the Moratorium also applying to Trad.

"The wholesale stopping of new trad routes was especially baffling."

This statement displays a complete failure to understand the issues threatening climbing access in the Grampians. Trad climbing over the top of an indigenous rock art site, or an area home to endangered flora, or at any site where climbing is prohibited is just as bad as sport climbing over the same area. The only difference is that sport route developers tend to leave more evidence. The notion that excessive bolting is the only threat to access fails to appreciate that the people most offended by overbolting are trad climbers, not land stakeholders. Stakeholders don't care about climbing ethics, they care about climbers encroaching on sensitive or protected areas, and "but no one will know if I do a sneaky trad climb" isn't an acceptable excuse for that."

Forum won't let me link here, but it's a comment on the Open Spaces facebook post about the issue.