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ryan bello · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Nov 2013 · Points: 0

Big changes for access, parking , hiking and climbing rules. Look into the most recent changes for SLO area climbing and hiking before your journey up there. Things change and may be different by the time you get up there. Many quality climbs that had old bolts have been replaced and the safety factor has gone way up. Enjoy and see you on the rocks.

FrankPS · · Atascadero, CA · Joined Nov 2009 · Points: 276
ryan bello wrote:Big changes for access, parking , hiking and climbing rules. Look into the most recent changes for SLO area climbing and hiking before your journey up there. Things change and may be different by the time you get up there. Many quality climbs that had old bolt have been replaced and the safety factor has gone way up. Enjoy and see you on the rocks.
Ryan,

What are some of the changes?

Frank
Ian Bohannon · · San Luis Obispo, CA · Joined Oct 2012 · Points: 40

Here's what was posted on the SLO-Op website on July 8th.

New Guidelines

According to the SLO-Op website, these guidelines have been approved. Can anyone else confirm? At first I thought this was a proposal.

FrankPS · · Atascadero, CA · Joined Nov 2009 · Points: 276

Don't like that the city will designate approved climbing areas, potentially close some climbing areas, and that they will have a "climbing committee." Typical government over-regulation for problems that don't exist.

I suspect one or two persons complained about something and the city fell for it.

Time will tell how this impacts the climbing. Most of it looks reasonable, and is already in effect, therefore unnecessary.

Edit: I don't see any changes to parking or hiking as mentioned by the OP.

ryan bello · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Nov 2013 · Points: 0

The changes reflect what happens to many places with fast growing populations ie. over regulation. Once these regulations are enacted it is just about game over for the "old days" of hiking and climbing on BP. The actual problems rarely get alleviated and only get more convoluted...time and time again. I have LITERALLY spent my entire life on the Seven Sisters and have been climbing on them since the early 1980s and have watched the changes occur. My family has been in SLO since the mid 1800s and it is much much different and there is only more of this kind of regulation to look forward to. I am sad for our town , for our way of life for all who will never know what it was like...."BEFORE."

Carson Ropp · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Nov 2014 · Points: 0

I went through the entire document and this is all that I could find that pertained to climbing in the plans.

"● Work with climbing community to identify designated climbing areas and refined management
strategies"

It sounds like the committee wants to talk to climbers and find out where the typical climbing areas are so they can put signs for the trails appropriately as they are planning on going through and updating all of the signage.

Nothing else that I read in this document effected climbers in SLO directly.

Larry Pruitt · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jul 2015 · Points: 30

I see a part mentioning a waiver to climb.

Is this still a proposal at this time?

Or am I missing something and this is in effect now?

-planning to climb there in the very near future.

Thanks

Ian Bohannon · · San Luis Obispo, CA · Joined Oct 2012 · Points: 40

There's no waivers required currently. It looks like the restrictions give the Parks and Rec director the ability to enforce waivers.

Nick Fuller · · Asheville, NC · Joined Jul 2012 · Points: 2

Something to take a look at: I started a different thread about some things I witnessed at Cracked Wall yesterday.

mountainproject.com/v/unsaf…

Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

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