I should have prefaced my recommendation with the caveat of "those who are so concerned with having the Lode shut down"the lurkist wrote:So to that end we actively tell climbers that high risk ground sweeping jumps are discouraged at the Lode. But in the meantime the same falls are aggrandized in heroic form without the risk or the prep for the stunt being made explicit in a video that everyone in the climbing world can see.My recommendation as climbers is to talk to people. If someone is doing the backflips, as climbers who care about the cliff maybe we should try to dissuade them.
I agree that dissuading folks from this is good idea. But encouraging it in a widely seen medium runs contrary to that logic.
Rarely have I seen people comment when a climber is doing something dangerous, like letting their gumby girlfriend belay them on a climb that's at their limit. People tend to sit back, avert their eyes and hope that no one dies. So, if someone is truly concerned about the crag being shut down, maybe the answer is to speak up when you see something like this instead of complaining after the fact. (I'm not speaking to anyone directly)
People have heard about the backflip from coast to coast...literally. The people who see the video already know about it. The idiots who want to emulate it should be removed from the gene pool. They aren't Andrew and will probably eat it.
