Cherry Baylosis leading with Monique Forestier belaying on pitch six of The Regular Route (23, 25, 24, 21, 24, 22, 23), at
As climbers we have to own our impacts and always strive to be better but when Parks Victoria resorted to dishonesty
These bans have been imposed by Parks unilaterally, without consultation, without satisfactory justification, without transparency and without sign of due process. They have been accompanied by appalling communication, out-of-this-world hypocrisy, and a failing in Park’s obligations to climber’s as a user group. In a belated effort to justify the bans at least some at Parks have engaged in a dirty, misleading smear campaign dishonestly vilifying climbers – and even resorted to lies. Yep. Oh boy. Where to begin….
#Repost with @Repostlyapp @moniqueforestier I first became aware of this route, Tom et je Ris (8b+), back
Thank you @jackmasel, my pleasure and glad you like the pic!
#Repost with @Repostlyapp @jackmasel At 18 years old I had my first ever @simoncarter_onsight calendar. My favourite photo
Last week it was exposed that Parks Victoria had published fabricated evidence to back up their baseless claim that climbers had placed “bolts in rock art” in the Grampians. This week it has been shown that
James Ridder leading pitch two of the good ‘ol Blue Mountains classic On Both Sides of the Glass Direct (18), at Narrow Neck.
One of the things that has concerned me deeply about the Grampians access saga is some of the accusations that have been leveled at climbers by Parks Victoria.
