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$11,000 fine for building a cairn 17-Jun-2011 At 9:00:23 AM kuu

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Regarding Blue Mountains TrackCare ...

On 16/06/2011 Linze wrote:
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>unless you read the sign on the way into to shipley/bardens? (did I also
>see a sign at Piddo once?) or waste your life checking facebook, would
>people know what track care was doing?? Does BMCC organise track care??
>i dont actually know but i always assumed it was a joint thing between
>them and some regular climber participants? if so why is the engagment
>net not spread a little wider?? are many Sydney folk involved or is it
>mainly Bluies full timers?? ive been climbing for more than a decade and
>noone has ever said anything about it to me, except for one guy that donated
>plenty of his time to rebolting but seemed to have something against the
>track care scene, not sure why?? track care sounds like a good idea, but
>realistically the masses are not going to get involved unless they have
>good knowledge of it. how often do you walk straigt past a poster and
>take no notice of it?? not meaning to be critical so much as to point out
>that maybe 'piss poor turn outs' are because not enough people have the
>info at their fingertips, or maybe they dont even feel as though they are
>really part of the whole thing??..for those whose participation is marginal
>someone might have to lead them across the line?? the rate of new routing
>in the bluies over the past few years seems to indicate that people are
>enthusiatic, so poor turn outs seem to be more than just apathy
>
BMCC established TrackCare because, although given encouragement, climbers failed (over a lengthy period) to get themselves organised in this regard. The Work Days are coordinated by Tobin Sorenson and Damien Taylor and have been promoted on this forum by Mikl and others.

The two remaining Work Day dates for 2011 are September 11 and November 5.

Tobin Sorenson is the BMCC Bush Officer.

Damien Taylor is a climber, who also happens to work for BMCC, and has been involved in these types of endeavours dating back to the time of the original Blue Mountains Cliffcare. I'm sure he would welcome more help with the numerous tasks still to be undertaken and he can be contacted as follows:
email dtaylor (AT) bmcc.nsw.gov.au [ replace AT with @ ]
phone 02 4780 5361
mobile 0414 195 085