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Cable Car over Mt Wellington's Organ Pipes 8-Aug-2014 At 7:40:48 PM Doug

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On 7/08/2014 Beuregaurd wrote:
>Climbers and cable cars coexist all over the world. A CC isn’t going to
>stop climbing.

To the contrary. Here's an extract from an email we received from Louise Shepherd this morning:
I have climbed several times on Table Mountain in South Africa.
The cable car has effectively closed at least the one climb that is directly below it.
Grease from the cable drips down onto the cliff below and has made one previously popular moderate route unclimbable.
It has affected many other routes with visual and audio intrusion, rubbish from construction below the cliff and so on.

In terms of accessibility, the big difference between Table Mountain and Mt Wellington is that Table Mountain has no access by road.
Sightseers, tourists, rock climbers and walkers must either walk up (which takes at least one hour each way for fit people), or take the cable car.
This is not the case on Mt Wellington, making the market very limited.
Given excellent access by road and walking tracks, a cable car on Mt Wellington seems utterly pointless and devoid of any redeeming features.
A CC
>would be vastly more efficient than burning petrol to lift a ton of motor
>car with every tourist to the top of MW. And It would give climbers a way
>up without having to hire a car or hike.

Most visits to climb on Mt Wellington don't involve a trip to the summit. In any case, if you actually look at the proposal, the terminus for the cable car is likely to significantly impact on access from the top.
There are many climbers in Hobart who are more than happy to take visiting climbers for a climb on our local crag. Just get on thesarvo.com