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Posted: **Mon Nov 21, 2005 4:21 pm**

Also, no routes at that crag have bolted anchors.

Posted: **Mon Nov 21, 2005 7:52 pm**

It is definitely in the Clifty Wilderness and on FS land. Alas, there is really no decent rock on the parcel where we rented the canoes from.

Posted: **Wed Nov 23, 2005 12:44 am**

I was under the impression that no motorized tools were allowed in clifty, does a HAND (the kind you hit with a hammer, and takes about 30 min to make a hole) drill count as a mortoized tool?

If you put an anchor in only drop in one cuz you can equalize it with a #1 at the top. My two cents. It IS a great route

Posted: **Wed Nov 23, 2005 1:20 am**

Hand drill should not count. It is a human powered tool, just like a hand saw they use for clearing trails in wilderness areas or trail tools.

I said, SHOULD not count. That's my interpretation.

Posted: **Wed Nov 23, 2005 12:59 pm**

Access Fund Newsletter wrote:Tucson Climber Acquitted In Illegal Bolting Trial
In early November Access Fund policy director Jason Keith traveled to Tucson, Arizona to assist in a trial defending local climber Chris Craig from a flawed prosecution charging him with illegal bolting on US Forest Service Land on Mount Lemmon. Local Tucson attorney Scott McNamara skillfully presented a case that convinced the court that the charge should be dismissed. The Access Fund viewed this case as potentially precedent-setting if a federal court determined that fixed anchors were illegal even on general US Forest land. In Tucson, the prosecuting attorney and US Forest Service witnesses confirmed in testimony that it is not illegal to place new fixed anchors on public land. The Access Fund will continue to oppose local field-level interpretations of federal land management policy to ensure consistency and fairness in climbing management policy.

Posted: **Wed Nov 23, 2005 7:58 pm**

That's huge.

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Needed Anchors....breakin the law, breakin the law....