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Dargan Creek Plan of Management Proposal 4-Feb-2012 At 4:18:36 PM Climboholic

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On 4/02/2012 Sonic wrote:
>On 4/02/2012 Climboholic wrote:
>
>>Finally, I support the proposal to have climbers seek permission to bolt
>>new routes in principal. But I hope the Trust has members who have rock
>>climbing experience and are qualified to administer this.
>
>Wow. I hope you like the huge target you just tattooed to yourself! Who,
>in their right freaking mind, SUPPORTS bolting approval by an outside body?!?!?!

Read again, that's not what I'm saying.

>Mate, I think you should seriously consider taking up Croquet.
>
>In any case, Glenn, I'll talk to you during the week but I think you're
>onto something. Well written and seemingly united letters may be the best
>way to approach this. But that statement above makes me feel like we just
>shot ourselves in the foot!

M9 is on the right track. These things work better if you show the 'authorities' that you support their position but point out the flaws in their plan and leave it up to them to make the decision.

As Stu said earlier: Well obviously no climber is going to like that, but I can understand why this statement is there. It is a plan of management, you can't exactly manage an area if you have no control over expansion of activities within the area. We should oppose this proposal in our submissions, the question is what exactly should we offer in its place to address their concerns?