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tom Slater
Trad climber
CA
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Mar 17, 2009 - 04:22pm PT
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call 408-355-2200
raptor closure
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Barcus
Trad climber
San Luis Obispo, Ca.
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Mar 17, 2009 - 07:42pm PT
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Hey B-Ring!
Kat and I are comin up that way this weekend!
Call Me!
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C-dog
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Mar 18, 2009 - 03:28pm PT
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If the pattern of other closures up there holds, it will become permanent (as in the Valley of Stone). The rangers are a mite feisty, and several of us have been harshly dressed down to an inappropriate degree. The tone has been increasingly hostile over the past 15 years, with "No Parking" signs all up and down Skyline Drive, despite the fact that climbers have not trashed the rock or gone on wild bolting sprees or been nearly as littering as other local fauna.
I love Summit Rock, and want to to go up there while no one is around and clean up all that glass. D'oh! I can't!! For those who haven't seen, the recent graffiti paintings up on top have been obscene. Someone went absolutely NUTS with the fluorescent paint, lots of it. I guess that's just urban sprawl.
Also, a lot of folk put their empty beer bottles & cans into that little remote trash can up there, and word of this reaching ranger's ears certainly must not weigh favorably when considering a closure decision.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Mar 18, 2009 - 03:43pm PT
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Roger that, Barcus.
Maybe we can get C-Dog to join us. Probably have to go to Castle Rock SP though.
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Barcus
Trad climber
San Luis Obispo, Ca.
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Mar 18, 2009 - 03:56pm PT
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Sweet!
Call me, we're heading up fri. night.
Lets PARTY!
I'll check w/ C-Dog as well.
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tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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Mar 18, 2009 - 04:03pm PT
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What's the access status on Skyline Slabs?
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billygoat
climber
3hrs to El Cap Meadow, 1.25hrs Pinns, 42min Castle
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Mar 18, 2009 - 04:05pm PT
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Open, but no drilling allowed--which sucks, because most of the lead bolts need replacing.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Mar 18, 2009 - 04:19pm PT
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Because of it's location, I don't think anybody would notice a re-bolting crew.
I'm just sayin'....
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tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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Mar 18, 2009 - 04:20pm PT
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Good news bad news I guess. I recal replacing a few bolts at the slabs 20 odd years ago, and shoulda oughta done some more. I also put in a few routes on the left most edge of the formation, if you're facing the sea. I need to dig through my old photos I coulda sworn I had a few from that area.
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LithiumMetalman
Trad climber
cesspool central
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 18, 2009 - 08:05pm PT
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thanks for the info guys!
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
Sprocketville
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Mar 18, 2009 - 09:32pm PT
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There are a ton of bolts on the left side of the slabs if your facing east.
Low angle 30-40 footers.
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rhyang
climber
SJC
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Mar 30, 2009 - 06:27pm PT
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Nat, didja call them up ? Is Summit Rock open yet ?
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LithiumMetalman
Trad climber
cesspool central
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 30, 2009 - 07:35pm PT
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Sorry!!! Been out at RR!!! Summit is going to have to wait, Yosemite here we come!!!
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rhyang
climber
SJC
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May 28, 2009 - 09:45pm PT
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Just got back from a day at Castle Rock .. drove by the Summit Rock trailhead just to look - no closure sign posted !
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Dapper Dan
climber
Menlo Park
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Jun 10, 2009 - 11:13pm PT
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Hey rhyang i dont know what your smoking but i went out to summit rocks to climb today and there were TWO big signs saying summit rock was still closed.
nice beta buddy .
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rhyang
climber
SJC
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Jun 10, 2009 - 11:32pm PT
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Sorry dude .. I called up the park to get the scoop from the ranger the next day and they told me the closure was still in effect. Strange ..
I should have posted back to the forum, but just forgot :(
Next time you can call them up for yourself. And it's not like there isn't climbing in the park nearby ..
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Bruce Morris
Social climber
Belmont, California
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Jun 15, 2009 - 04:11pm PT
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Yesterday (June 14th), I talked to the horse ranger who patrols Summit Rock and he told me that Peregrins were indeed nesting there. However, when I pointed out to him that the Rostrum was closed during the nesting season and then reopened in the fall, he replied that the peregrins had now taken up residence at Summit permanently, so the closure was going to continue basically forever. He also added, snidely, that he'd seen a peregrin up at the main Castle Rock that very morning, implying that that rock might be closed soon as well. If this wasn't just a trick to close Summit to climbing, the County Parks would be planning on a fall re-opening. Sounds like Santa Clara County Parks and State Parks might be planning a general climbing closure in both Parks eventually. Tricky. Tricky. What I want to know is where were these continuous patrols at Summit when there were bottle throwers up there? Where did this huge budget for horse patroling Summit emerge when there wasn't a nickel before to mitigate bottle throwers and drinkers?
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kev
climber
CA
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Jun 15, 2009 - 04:28pm PT
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Bruce,
Yeah this whole thing has smelled like a BS excuse. Raptor closures do not exist for whole years. The temporary climbing closures plan at CRSP (what for 10 years in areas how the f%&k is that temporary) Fricking nature Nazis up there. It's slowly becoming guerrilla/OB climbing up there now. Sucks if you ask me. Perhaps the Access Fund should be contacted? What do you think? Anyone else want to chime in of the thought of contacting the Access Fund? Anyone have any experience with them good or bad?
kev
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Jun 18, 2009 - 06:41pm PT
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There have been a pair of Peregrines nesting in the Castle Rock/Summit Rock area for three years.
Have watched them fly "home" towards Summit Rock in the evening.
Have watched them mate in the air (freakin' awesome).
Leave them be at Summit Rock
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
Sprocketville
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Jun 18, 2009 - 09:44pm PT
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unlike the red tail, which nests at the top of big trees, the peregrine picks out sandstone caves, where the coyotes, racoons, snakes, can't eat the eggs.
so if they happen to land on your favorite crag, you could be screwed for the life cycle of the bird, 8 to 10 years, during the nesting season.
i do not think they will close castle rock, those birds need space between them, especially if they share the air with red tails, sparrow hawks, turkey vultures and the rest of the avian society, so there is usually a good deal of space between nesting pairs?
kind of like the cougar, it has an 8 by 17 mile rectangle for each male.
i think the ranger was probably worried about his own fate, so he was passing it along in the form of negative energy.
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