PULL- A Story About Lead Climbing

In many ways this is a look into the most future imaginable

This video obviously took some work to film, edit and produce. It is really well done. Additionally, it is entertaining. It deserves thoughtful commentary. JS and BM are both very accomplished climbers and really good people

who have contributed a lot to our local climbing areas as well as our local climbing community.

BM has produced some truly excellent climbing photography.

-Some catch the significance of the removable chain as a means of eliminating the need for placing bolts on a route.

While hanging chain is obviously not a viable solution to over-bolting
or the weakness some have for leaving project / fixed draws on routes,
it does suggest that there are alternatives to the assumption that the only way to do hard routes is by leaving chains or other fixed draws hanging on cliffs

(cliffs n walls?) that are publicly shared resources
and which are receiving increased attention because of the visual impact of those permanent/semi-permanent installations.

Camouflaged hangers by themselves are much less visually objectionable than draws, whether chain, cable or nylon when they are left hanging for months.

-The future of climbing
is, in part, efforts to make crag development invisible
by both camouflaging necessary fixed hardware
and minimizing the amount of hardware that is left on the rock.

Those goals can be accomplished in part by not placing bolts where natural protection is available and by not leaving draws of any type on routes, regardless of the inconvenience of hanging draws before an attempted send.

Why are hang-gliding and mountain-biking banned from wilderness areas, despite the fact that neither are motorized?

The visual impact of those pursuits was considered to be too much of a negative impact on the experience of solitude and nature that the wilderness designation is supposed to protect.

If climbing development comes to be seen as representing too much of a negative visual impact because of draws that are left for months, season or years on cliffs,
climbing will also be banned from wilderness areas.

Banning climbing from wilderness areas will provide additional justification for banning it from other areas.

Thirsty: Why are . . . mountain-biking banned from wilderness areas, despite the fact that neither are motorized? The visual impact of those pursuits was considered to be too much of a negative impact on the experience of solitude and nature that the wilderness designation is supposed to protect.