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ap: Reject Neguse’s Protect America’s Rock Climbing Act and protect Wilderness instead

Fixed rock climbing anchors don’t belong on Wilderness mountains

The cover of The Denver Post's Sept. 3, 1972, Empire magazine featured Bill Forrest and Kris Walker after they climbed the 2,500-foot Painted Wall in the Black Canyon of the Gunnison River. "No previous climber had gotten higher than 900 feet up the face," says Walker.
The cover of The Denver Post’s Sept. 3, 1972, Empire magazine featured Bill Forrest and Kris Walker after they climbed the 2,500-foot Painted Wall in the Black Canyon of the Gunnison River. “No previous climber had gotten higher than 900 feet up the face,” says Walker.
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The Montana writer George Ochenski calls the Tribune’s position “Total bullsh*t.” In an e-mail, he said bolting routes “bring ‘sport climbing’ into the wilderness when it belongs in the gym or on non-wilderness rocks.”
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