Niagara Parks Banning Bouldering
This is a stretch of an argument. But is seems the type of folks that don't want off roaders on the trails they use to get their sites, are being kicked out of one of their locations for environmental reasons.
The link:
http://thegoat.backcountry.com/
You might need to scroll down a bit to get to this entry:
The Niagara Parks Commission is working on a plan to ban bouldering as a measure to reduce environmental impact. Someone should tell them that boulderers don’t use gear, except old mattresses that could, I suppose, crush endangered flowers. It’s those trad climbers leaving rock scars—boulderers’ main offense against humanity is walking around town in gusted-crotch jeans. Hopefully this isn’t the beginning of a trend that forcers boulderers to start looking for climbs in parking garages and overpasses. Those crazy Canadians are at it again. Shouldn’t they be more worried about people going over the falls in barrels?
So how about it - we wage an write in campaign to support the closure of their boulder field - unless we get the right for motorized access on it.
After we we do that - we should sue the NFS for stocking non native trout into the Tellico streams - along with suing to ban fisherman from walking in Tellico's streams and dislodging the eggs of the native aquatic species.
This is a stretch of an argument. But is seems the type of folks that don't want off roaders on the trails they use to get their sites, are being kicked out of one of their locations for environmental reasons.
The link:
http://thegoat.backcountry.com/
You might need to scroll down a bit to get to this entry:
The Niagara Parks Commission is working on a plan to ban bouldering as a measure to reduce environmental impact. Someone should tell them that boulderers don’t use gear, except old mattresses that could, I suppose, crush endangered flowers. It’s those trad climbers leaving rock scars—boulderers’ main offense against humanity is walking around town in gusted-crotch jeans. Hopefully this isn’t the beginning of a trend that forcers boulderers to start looking for climbs in parking garages and overpasses. Those crazy Canadians are at it again. Shouldn’t they be more worried about people going over the falls in barrels?
So how about it - we wage an write in campaign to support the closure of their boulder field - unless we get the right for motorized access on it.
After we we do that - we should sue the NFS for stocking non native trout into the Tellico streams - along with suing to ban fisherman from walking in Tellico's streams and dislodging the eggs of the native aquatic species.
