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mojede

Trad climber

Butte, America

Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 12, 2007 - 02:29pm PT

Anymore photos out there of rock being defiled by humans? Cables, Rushmore, Crazy Horse, et al. Let's see what's being done out there to our precious resource.

http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Europe/France/West/Bretagne/Plougrescant/photo572168.htm

http://www.snopes.com/photos/architecture/skywalk.asp

Ksolem

Trad climber

LA, Ca

Jul 12, 2007 - 02:53pm PT

When do you suppose they get around to adding Reagan's mug to this bit of chiselling...?

bluering

Trad climber

Santa Clara, Ca.

Jul 12, 2007 - 03:10pm PT

Damn, look at that talus field below Rushmore...I never knew it was that big.

Mojede, karma will stike the guy with the house between the rocks. One of these days those rocks will split and crash through his living room.

the Fet

Knackered climber

A bivy sack in the secret campground

Jul 12, 2007 - 03:13pm PT

Rushmore could be much worse. Originaly they wanted to carve the nearby Needles (great climbing) into a series of figures you'd drive through.

Indianclimber

climber

Las Vegas

Jul 12, 2007 - 03:16pm PT

Heavy handed graffiti removal
Sorry for the repost

Mr. D

Trad climber

West Coast

Jul 12, 2007 - 03:51pm PT

Check out that killer chimney offwidth madness to the left of Washington's mug!

David

Trad climber

San Rafael, CA

Jul 12, 2007 - 03:56pm PT

Take a look at any popular climbing route and you'll see the effect of thoulsands of feet and hands touching and grabbing the rock.

Perhaps you've conveniently decided that a certain amount of abuse is ok but the only way to truly "leave the rock alone" would be to stop climbing.

Also, if you really want to leave all rock on the planet untouched by human hands you'll have to stop supporting the use of rock in all kinds of buidling materials and infratructure all around you. Don't enter building that use any form of stone as a buidling material. This is includes anything made of concrete. Don't use paved roads. No glass. etc.

Personally, I don't think pre stone age life would not appeal to me.

Toker Villain

Big Wall climber

Toquerville, Utah

Jul 12, 2007 - 04:34pm PT

Maybe if when I drill pockets I add renditions of a couple of slave owners, a reckless adrenaline junkie, and a manic depressive,..

mojede

Trad climber

Butte, America

Topic Author's Reply - Jul 12, 2007 - 04:37pm PT

By "our precious resource"--I meant CLIMBING resource. What good is a bunch of virgin rock for if it can't be played on? Pro-climbing posted forum here.

Jerry Dodrill

climber

Bodega, CA

Jul 12, 2007 - 05:18pm PT

Well, this is timely and on-topic.

We're gearing up for an access debacle up here on the Sonoma Coast at Sunset Rocks, recently known as the "Mammoth Rubbing Rocks."

Seems the "State Beach" is turning into a "State Park," revising the General Plan. With the wide publicatin of the recent Mammoth Rubbing Theory, the rocks are seeing greater visitation from the public. Just the other day I saw where some A-Hole had pounded off some of the polished stone rubbings. Climbers are getting blamed for all the damage to what the new draft General Plan calls a "significant cultural resource."

During a recent public comment period, local enviromental groups asked that permit be required for all rock climbers at the site. There have been rumors of a proposed boardwalk and railing put up around the rocks to keep people from touching them. Hopefully thats just a rumor, but the park has been building a lot of boardwalks along the trail in the past couple years.

GP PAGE 2-111 – 2-112,
"PROTECTION OF ROCKS BELOW PEAKED HILL:
The rocks below Peaked Hill (known by local climbers as Sunset Rock or Sunset Boulders) are thought to be a significant with prehistoric animal rubbings. It also is an uncontrolled publicly accessible rock-climbing area in Sonoma County and, as such, attracts significant use by climbers, whose use could lead to deterioration of the resource. Evaluation and final determination of significance should be made on the “Rubbing Rock” as a significant paloeontological feature. Once this is completed, the Department will determine the appropriate management treatment for protection of this feature. The evaluation of the potential dedication of the site as a Cultural Preserve is included in the General Plan. "

Prepare for a call to write letters again...

Thanks in advance.

Read more at the source of concern:
http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=22591

mojede

Trad climber

Butte, America

Topic Author's Reply - Jul 12, 2007 - 05:34pm PT

Jerry, keep up the good work on the preservation of historic rock resources. I would like to think that most climbers realize that there is so much rock l to be climbed, that they would leave historical "evidence" at significant areas alone. Not everyone is a "soul climber", I guess--too bad for them.

David

Trad climber

San Rafael, CA

Jul 12, 2007 - 05:47pm PT

re."Hell of a good idea!!!... You QUIT first... "

Why would I quit? I'm not the one trying to save the rocks.

426

Sport climber

Buzzard Point, TN

Jul 12, 2007 - 06:05pm PT

Interesting point David, think of all the limestone classics that have been ground into the concrete jungle. Crazy romans...

Closer to home...I wish

Jerry, that is way out there stuff...

k-man

Gym climber

SCruz

Jul 12, 2007 - 08:13pm PT

Leave the rock alone...what, so it can miss us?

G.M. Oth

Trad climber

Anywhere and everywhere

Jul 12, 2007 - 10:18pm PT

LOLOLOL
Good one Crowley!
You beat me to the punch.
You should have used Photoshop though,
to make it look like they were carved in the rock.

G.C.M. Oth