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Another Crapper in the Creek
By now the new parking lot at Supercrack in Indian Creek is old news, but I just received these photos of the new toilet going in. These are great improvements to the area that address two important needs, parking and pooping. While there will always be those who lament the days gone by, this is 2010 and the Creek is a world class destination. Kudos to the Friends of Indian Creek for all their hard work in preserving access to such an incredible place!
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Bulldog Creek Dog Walk (IV WI 4+)
Hayden Carpenter and Tom Bohanon recently repeated an obscure ice climb on the south side of Mt Sopris. Given a brief mention in Jack Robert’s ice guide, Bulldog Creek Walk is described as being 100 meters of WI 4. What they found was seven pitches of ice in a remote setting that makes for one […]
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Well put… lamenting days gone by but celebrating progress to accommodate the masses in an obviously world class area. Emotions mixed at best.
My friends and I talk about this frequently in areas with high traffic (Rodellar, Kalymnos etc). It’s such a difficult issue, but it seems USA are handling it best by actually installing permanent toilets where necessary, and supplying port-a-johns at places like Rifle. It gets trickier where the walk to the cliff is longer than 20 mins (people won’t walk back to crap), but still sees heaps of traffic. All I can tell you is that as soon as you step off the trail here in Rodellar, you’re confronted with human waste and toilet paper. And this is a canyon with a watercourse. It’s disgusting.
I was walking down the trail from Cat Wall with a friend from Spain and on my own started to really look for trash on the trail. It was a coincidence that I was with a dude from Spain, but I eventually remarked about how there is virtually no trash ANYWHERE in the whole of Indian Creek. A few bits of tape, maybe some shit the wind blew away in camp, or a few cig butts is all you will find. I seriously bet that you couldn’t fill a hefty bag with climber produced trash from the hundreds of square miles that comprise all the cliffs in the creek. My buddy from Spain who laments all the trash at the crags there said he too had noticed how clean it was in Indian Creek. So 1000s of people show up each season and leave virtually no trash behind, and now even catholes of human waste are being mitigated. I guess what I’m trying to say is that as a user group we rule and while there are a few transgressions here and there, the BLM has to be glad they are dealing with a group that on the whole cares deeply about impact.