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SarahD

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4. Wilderness should be unbolted.
Tue Apr 16, 2024, 06:00 PM
Apr 2024

There are plenty of climbing opportunities outside the wilderness. If wilderness routes need bolts, that can be approved case by case, and the specific installation supervised by the climbing rangers. I used to climb and it bothered me that people would set anchors and string webbing on easy routes that could be protected with nuts or friends. The bolt debate goes way back to the early days of big wall climbing, and it's still not settled. My feeling is that bolting should be minimized, and that will require some loathsome government regulation.

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