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I would like to offer another view regarding toilets in the parking lots on RRGCC land. Many years ago I read and was deeply impressed by an argument regarding altering handholds on climbing routes, also known as manufacturing or chipping. The argument against the practice was that for humans to acc...

Over Labor Day Weekend my climbing partner and I bolted a new sport route between Stephanie’s Cabaret and Four Shower Tokens, A Guinness and My Girl , leaving 10 project draws and a beater rope on it until we were both able to send. I sent the route the next week but my partner couldn’t get back to ...

Mike, I camp on the PMRP regularly (even since before we purchased) including four times this year, and so far every time we have camped we have been happy to hear the whip-poor-will's song at dusk :D I am not saying that whip-poor-will's numbers have not declined or for what reason but I thought yo...

Josephine, Bentley had mentioned that Rick Bost had already been involved with the E.TN Climbers' hemlock project and might be a good resource...here he is in a video about the climbers helping with a Nissan funded hemlock project. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4Ne3nQjiXk&feature=youtu.be I am...

First, let me just thank EVERYONE for the offers of help, support, ideas and thoughtful comments! It is extremely gratifying…but more importantly the hemlocks, and the bees, and all the other interrelated and interdependent organisms, including us human (climbing) critters will be the better for it....

Thanks, Dustin! I knew YOU would be down for helping

That's is AWESOME, Bill! Couldn't have any better volunteer than that!

So, I was wondering how many of my fellow climbers would be willing to help save the hemlocks on the PMRP and MFRP? I was belaying last weekend on the PMRP under a 100 foot-plus tall hemlock when a small sprig from the upper boughs, dislodged by the gusting wind, landed on the ground at my feet. Whe...

Proving Ground is owned by a different owner, so this closure is based upon direct information from the owner of Area 6 only. Ownership for Proving Ground has not been verified but neither has permission been affirmatively given or denied. That is all I know at this time.

Area 6 is now listed as closed on the online guide because the property owner has expressed a clear, unambiguous directive that he does not want anyone entering his land, trespassing on his land and/or climbing on his land. Ray has responded to this new information from the owner by respecting the o...

On a USFS map, the District Ranger, Dave Manner, pointed to a disconnected road entering National Forest land crossing private land off of Little Sinking and said that the USFS had approved a request for a gate to be placed across the road by the land owner. He said the USFS did not erect the gate a...