IMPACT on Muir of KY HW 715 Rerouting

Post by **Huggybone** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 8:07 am

Interesting. I guess no good deed goes unpunished in the land of the 'free' where the government can appropriate your land at any time. *sigh*

Lets all say it together...

This will not happen.
Not because it will go away if we ignore it. It won't
It will never happen because we will not let it happen.
If they want to go Nazi and steal (yes, steal) the intended use of the property, they will have to fight us (the firmly united climbing community) at every step of the way. We need to raise such a fuss that they will look at building in muir as 'not an option due to the tremendous opposition.'

I will be writing a letter of my own, and, with Rick's permission, with a cc to every major opponent to government land grabbing who has a national voice, hopefully it will resonate and get news on the national airways.

Other ideas: Petition with the signature of every person who has ever climbed at muir or will climb at muir. Petitions at trail heads, Muigels, and letters to climbing magazine.

I think if we pull together as a community we can stop this.

Post by **dhoyne** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 9:38 am

Email sent.

Post by **jordancolburn** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 9:52 am

Post by **Andrew** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 10:11 am

Post by **bcombs** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 10:18 am

While I'm sure most of us are perfectly capable of crafting a fine email to the powers that be, is someone up for putting together a template we can use? Something we could use to broaden the audience (i.e. rc.com, etc...). I am in no way voluntering. Maybe Tomdarch? He seems to be wordy.

Or Liz, have you guys put together something that is suitable?

Post by **DriskellHR** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 10:30 am

bcombs wrote:While I'm sure most of us are perfectly capable of crafting a fine email to the powers that be, is someone up for putting together a template we can use? Something we could use to broaden the audience (i.e. rc.com, etc...). I am in no way voluntering. Maybe Tomdarch? He seems to be wordy. Or Liz, have you guys put together something that is suitable?

this also might help misscommunication

Post by **redpointron** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 10:39 am

DriskellHR wrote:
bcombs wrote:While I'm sure most of us are perfectly capable of crafting a fine email to the powers that be, is someone up for putting together a template we can use? Something we could use to broaden the audience (i.e. rc.com, etc...). I am in no way voluntering. Maybe Tomdarch? He seems to be wordy. Or Liz, have you guys put together something that is suitable?

this also might help misscommunication

i posted it on rockclimbing.com last night. nothing finely crafted. i justed wanted to get the ball rolling.

http://www.rockclimbing.com/cgi-bin/for ... ead#unread

and for some reason it isn't showing the link right ^^^^

ron

Post by **camhead** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 10:52 am

Wow, hopefully nothing will come of those alternatives.

I've been a bit concerned about these sort of things in the last few months, with politicians and media stressing that the way to get out of this current recession is to pour tons of federal money into "infrastructure."

Post by **hamsco** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 11:02 am

Post by **512OW** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 11:04 am

Huggybone wrote:If they want to go Nazi and steal (yes, steal) the intended use of the property, they will have to fight us (the firmly united climbing community) at every step of the way. We need to raise such a fuss that they will look at building in muir as 'not an option due to the tremendous opposition.'

Huggybone.... I like it! F.U.C.C. (Firmly United Climbing Community). This could be some worldwide shit you just started. People would join based on the name alone....

We need Tshirts.