scfunhog
Feb 27, 2007, 3:17 PM
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Congratulations to the CCC for pulling off the purchase of Laurel Knob. No doubt a great deal of personal time and hard work went into this accomplishment. Having grown up climbing in NC, primarily Looking Glass and Rumbling Bald, it's great to see another vast, high quality area with so much potential opened to climbing.
It is unfortunate though that the CCC felt compelled or otherwise determined that it was necessary to put a bureaucracy in place to govern new route pioneering. Rules, forms, review committees, references!, interviews!! Limit one route per year per person!!! Most climbers I know cringe when policy makers impose these types of restrictions on our access and use of public lands? Yet, we've done this to ourselves?! Self-imposed rules for access, waste, camping, pets, destruction of vegetation, safety I can understand. Liability waivers I get. But the new route approval process and accompanying restrictions strike me as means to dictate a certain style of climbing (it would be a shame if this wonderful new area turned into another Whitesides or, conversely, a grid bolted sport park) and/or a barrier to limit new route development to a certain few.
Although I disagree with certain aspects of the management plan, I fully support the rights of the CCC to establish guidelines for the public use of its property.
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