Dost Mitra 

Thanks for posting something about this route and I'm glad that you enjoyed it. A friend and I set this route back in August 2011. We named it Dost Mitra (meaning Friend). We agree on the difficulty that you posted, about 5.11b. I just posted an article about setting the route on our blog, ClimbingHouse.com .

Since the route is new, some of the fragile holds will eventually come off and the sand will be removed as more people climb it.

Lets chill out on new sport routes on this wall! The park service is already quite pissed off about this area. Are you guys hand drilling these? PLEASE make sure that they cannot be seen from the trail. Are you using colored chalk? The rangers watch this area and use it as a compass on handling climbing regulation in the area. It would be a shame to see new anchors get banned because of a couple of one pitch routes while there are so many untouched big walls waiting for somebody to have a grand adventure on. Please remove these off Mountain Project and most importantly,

Please stop developing this wall!!!

Sincerely,

Troy Anderson
SLC, UT

"The park service is already quite pissed off about this area"

Really? Do you have information regarding this or can you elaborate please?

This comment seems very inconsistent with dialogue I have had over the last 5 years with ZNP LEO's and wilderness rangers. I live in the area and have had extended talks with 2 different LE's who are in charge of monitoring climbing in the park. They are both climbers and are very supportive of new route development, though they do encourage camo hangers and of course hand drilling. Truth be told climbers are viewed in a positive light. As a user group of the park we are much more responsible and low impact than other groups that require a large degree of park oversight and management like canyoneers.

"The rangers watch this area and use it as a compass on handling climbing regulation in the area."

I too was very curious about the comment made about not developing this area and how it was being watched closely. When we set the route, the first thing we did was go right to the ranger station and ask what the rules were. They informed us to use a hand drill and notify them of the new route, both of which we did. If they had told us not to develop the area, we would have gone and climbed a big wall in the main valley (we are both climbers = trad, sport, boulderers, alpine, long, short). Not a big deal.

If there is new information, a change of rules, or something we did has made the management look at climbing in the area in a negative light, please let us know and we will correct the situation to make things right. The last thing that we intended was to do something that could possibly limit access to the entire park.

Great climbing but a bit spooky and sandy. Nothing broke for me though so perhaps it is more solid than it appears.

My buddy Dave led this. Ripped a hold @the 4-5 bolt and landed in the tree be carefull . Great heads up climbing.