Gatekeeping in the community

John Clarkwrote:

How can you possibly justify this? If FAs really do have dominion over “their” routes, then they also have the responsibility to make them accessible to anyone who wants to climb them regardless of financial means, especially routes on public land.

This has to be a joke. Firstly, virtually all climbs are on public lands. What does that non sequitar have to do with this inane comment? And of course the FA needs to be doing nothing that you wrote of Mr Clark. 

Just be grateful that the FA put in the intense effort that goes into establishing any good route. 

But by all means, feel free to equip all the routes you are putting up with high-quality all-weather draws.

You lost me at bolting cracks. That's a gate we'd all like to keep closed.

nealgwrote:

This has to be a joke. Firstly, virtually all climbs are on public lands. What does that non sequitar have to do with this inane comment? And of course the FA needs to be doing nothing that you wrote of Mr Clark. 

Just be grateful that the FA put in the intense effort that goes into establishing any good route. 

But by all means, feel free to equip all the routes you are putting up with high-quality all-weather draws.

You were so close to seeing that this was a joke, but then you forgot to read halfway down page 1. Lol

Ryan Enrightwrote:

You lost me at bolting cracks. That's a gate we'd all like to keep closed.

Seems the main problem with climbers today is reading more than half a page.

Ryan Enrightwrote:

You lost me at bolting cracks. That's a gate we'd all like to keep closed.

F r i t zwrote:

Baby Peach resembles that remark.

#MakeGatesKeptAgain

Historians generally acknowledge that modern roped climbing was started in the US in the 1920s:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._M._Underhill

the FA should also be responsible for supplying you a car to get to the route, and waking you up on time. how dare they make routes that you have to drive to. gatekeeping makes me sick!

John Clarkwrote:

Seems the main problem with climbers today is reading more than half a page.

Wasn’t there an entire thread about how “guidebooks sucked” and it turned out the OP just couldn’t read? Ahhh the gold ol’ days #RIPTrevor 

Locker wrote:

This one is for Fritz...

  

I feel like that could make a killer demotivational poster.

F r i t zwrote:

I feel like that could make a killer demotivational poster.

I like how the little goat is carrying the much larger mountain goat to safety. Of course, the little goat will soon be gatekept once they land back on the ground and things return to the way they were.