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Hidden crags 24-Oct-2005 At 9:00:43 PM Ronny

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climbing using
>specialist equipment like climbing shoes, chalk and bouldering pads would
>be their grounds for complaint,

ah, but therein lies the interesting bit...
to a large proportion of the population, climbing shoes, chalk and pads would not be conisdered 'mountaineering equipment'.

in fact i rekon most people (non-climbers) wouldn't consider a 2 move bum scraper sit start problem to be 'rock climbing'.

I know I'm splitting hairs - its easy to just say 'oh well, it obviously is meant to proscribe bouldering, so therefore it must', but that's not the issue. The question is 'does it?'
How old are the regulations? Did bouldering even really exist when they were written?

s22(1)(d) proscribes activities that 'involves risking the safety of the person or the safety of other persons'. Bouldering hardly does this in the same way that the activities spelt out do, so can it really be said that its inlcuded in the definition of 'rock climbing'?

The practical answer to all this is what everyone has already said: 'Nat Parks arn't going to like you bouldering there.' but the question of whether its actually illegal is another matter. (a far more interesting, but far less useful, one)

R