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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Separately, Congress passed the Protecting America’s Rock Climbing Act on Thursday, which declares that fixed anchors used by climbers to ascend and descend rock walls – including bolts ...

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 ...

Back in Washington D.C., Hickenlooper got language that would allow the continued use of fixed anchors for rock climbing in wilderness areas added to a bill that is now awaiting a full senate vote.

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 ...

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The sole survivor of a rock climbing accident that killed three others in Washington state's North Cascades National Park is in satisfactory condition—a fact that's nothing short of "miraculous ...