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Dogs in Blue Mountains National Parks. 15-Aug-2007 At 8:49:11 PM chris

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Thanks guys for keeping this thread current!
Helen Ellis has made a post on ACA, and they have decided to stop taking their dog to Bowens, so hopefully they will start to spread the word a bit and encourage others to do the same.

Adrian Laing has also notified that there is a dog ban at one of the non-national park crags, Logan Brae.
He has said that the council is uncomfortable with dogs at Shipley and the Glen, too (non national park crags). I don't think it's really fair to ban climbers taking dogs to Shipley and the Glen, though, while bushwalkers still can. The Blue Mtns Climbing access group is apparently negotiating about this with council at the moment, so hopefully this will be resolved one way or the other in the next few years.

I'm going to have a chat with some other dog owners on the weekend and hopefully get them to support this issue.

As I've said before, the aim is to get people to stop taking their dogs to national park crags only. I think the non-national park crags are a different issue, and this is up to the owner (of both the crag and the dog!).