Sports; Outdoors; Debate over climbing anchors in wilderness comes to a head Jan. 26, 2024 Updated Fri., Jan. 26, 2024 at 5:14 p.m. National Park Service is reversing a rule on fixed anchors ...

Opinion: Reject Neguse’s Protect America’s Rock Climbing Act and protect Wilderness instead Fixed rock climbing anchors don’t belong on Wilderness mountains ...

In the backdrop of the agencies' process are two pieces of federal legislation that would protect climbing anchors. Protecting America's Rock Climbing Act, and America's Outdoor Recreation Act of ...

Should fixed anchors needed for rock climbing be allowed inside wilderness? Utah Rep. John Curtis has introduced a bill to ensure rock climbing will always have a place in wilderness areas.

Rock climbers who have expressed concern over proposed changes to federal regulations affecting climbing safety equipment in wilderness areas got some powerful allies this week when more than a ...

Federal land managers are seeking comments from the public on policies that would impact how climbers in the Cascades and around the United States interact with rock climbing crags.

Dispatches, December 1998 Sport Hey Bob, Can You Tie Me Off to That Pika? Climbing’s uphill battle against a proposed ban on fixed anchors By John Galvin Idaho’s Sawtooth Wilderness is a ...

Rock climbers, feds tangle over wilderness rules. By Rob Hotakainen | 03/15/2024 01:35 PM EDT . Agencies offered guidance that would make it harder for climbers to drill anchor bolts into rocks in ...

Rock climbers gain protection in legislation signed into law by Biden A proposal by the National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service to restrict the use of fixed anchors is now dead ...

They want to enter designated Wilderness in order to drill permanent anchors into wilderness rock faces, turning these wild places into sport-climbing walls. When the Wilderness Act became law in 1964 ...

Use of fixed climbing anchors in those mountains is relatively light — Glacier has notoriously rotten rock, and many of the popular climbing routes don’t require ropes.