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Tell us about your groundfall experience! 21-Mar-2004 At 2:17:06 AM runnit

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On 20/03/2004 glacier-rat wrote:
>just worried that if the army gets wind
>that people are going there, they may go after those tresspassing, or worse,
>destroy the area...
>

From my sorta limited personal experience, if the crag is on a field firing range then the chances of Defence being cool about civies coming on to the land are very slim because of the whole liability thing, but I'd doubt that range control would actively look for people trespassing unless there was a lot of people making their presence really obvious. It's unlikely that they'd have enough pers on duty at the best of times to go searching for a small handfull of climbers. They definitely couldn't destroy the area (apart from maybe cutting off any bolts) because the environmental rules placed on military ranges are very restrictive and Defence wouldn't risk breaking them to stop people climbing.

Basically, everything's legal until you get caught, but if you do just be prepared to cop a large kick in the arse.