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WTF at Point Perpendicular! 8-Oct-2014 At 4:09:43 PM jprockbelly

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On 6/10/2014 One Day Hero wrote:
>start a dialogue regarding whether it really is ok for the navy to retrobolt whatever they want.

It won't be a dialogue, it will be a monologue, and climber won't be talking. We will be listening to our access being taken away.

Park managers generally view climbers as a problem group of park users. We tend to do a lot of things that they don't like, make paths, stash gear at the crag, shit all over the place etc. On top of this many climbers think they are the authority on what is best for a climbing location, a sort of entitlement mindset.

So when climbers start to impinge on other users (for example by chopping their park approved ring bolts) it is an easy decision for the managers to just ban climbing. It solves a lot of their problems quickly.