Wednesday, December 5, 2012

What is your local crag worth to you?

The Access Fund has put together a video talking about the historic Jailhouse crag in California.  Access Fund helps climbers with access issues and consults with legal advise, they help climbers fight to keep their home town crags open.  Access Fund is why we have Castle Rocks back open to climbing.  They are currently helping us with the access issue over Massacre Rocks.  There is even an access issue locally within Twin Falls.

Chuck Odette has been developing a crag that is similar to Jailhouse not only by looks, but also with access issues.  This crag could potentially house Idaho's hardest lines giving Twin Falls locals a place to push themselves into a new arena of climbing.  However, as development continued with this wall Chuck found out that the crag was situated on privately owned property.  The land owner is hesitant to give open access to climbers so we all need to tread lightly.

We all need to support the Access Fund so that they have the means to support us.  If we don't give then we can not receive.