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Grampians Access 2019 8-Mar-2019 At 10:46:47 AM The good Dr

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On 7-Mar-2019 armstp wrote:
>I had a chat with a Ranger at Hollow Mt car park today. She informed us
>that Summerday Valley and Hollow Mt are closed to climbing as of Wednesday
>last week. They are still open for licensed operators guiding and running
>outdoor ed. Interestingly there are no signs up to this effect, and the
>PV notice board telling visitors all about the good climbing at Summerday
>Valley and Hollow Mountain still greets you at the start of the walking
>track into the cliffs.
>
>The bottom line according to her is that all of the areas marked as Protected
>on the map that PV have issued are closed to climbing. Which is an awful
>lot of the Grampians.
>

If the areas are closed to climbing then one would presume that is all climbers. Are commercial groups climbing … yes … does the ban apply … apparently no … WTF.

Allowing commercial operators appears to be a back stop so that PV do not open themselves to litigation.

This looks to be getting quite messy.

The Management Plan itself is full of inconsistencies (e.g. the SPA Table 3, page 11, Special Protection Areas are <<1% of Park whereas the maps indicate that they are a considerable area of the park) and the written sections are contradictory and vague. Would hate to see the legal tangles that all this could generate. Also the parks list of areas open to climbing released over time (due to bush fires) and when this blew up just adds to the PV mess.