Leaving Permadraws on Natural Bridges, etc.

I came across this blog post today, which has pictures of brightly colored permadraws hanging off of a really impressive natural bridge in Wyoming.

The author, who is not a climber, comments on how unsightly the draws are, and I agree. If you're not a climber, it just looks like trash on the wall. I am a climber, and to me it still looks like trash on the wall. It's not just climbers who enjoy a feature like this. This type of issue creates friction between climbers and others and could possibly even lead to future access issues. It's not worth it.

I feel the same way about boulderers leaving chalk marks all over every piece of rock within eye sight of many trails. It's a shame climbers don't think about this stuff more often. I think metulious used to sell camo bolt hangers. Wonder if anything like that would ever catch on. 

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it looks like trash to me.  but then so do bolts, empty holes, eroded crag bases or enhanced belay platforms, piles of shitty TP, etc.

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