Attention Lion’s Head Climbers!!

Ropes MUST NOT BE PULLED from trees. Bark is sensitive, and crucial to protecting the tree from the elements and bugs. Please protect the trees at Lion’s Head as environmental damage could impact our access to climbing.

The OAC strongly recommends using the descent gully while climbing at Lion’s Head. If you must rappel, set up a fixed line and protect the tree with a towel, foam pad or similar item. The use of flat webbing is better at distributing force along a larger area and causes less impact on the tree. Using webbing will also save your rope from sap, dirt and debris.

Please let your climber friends know the sensitivities surrounding pulling ropes off of tree (at Lion’s Head and beyond). Feel free to get in touch with the OAC with any questions.

Photo credit: US Department of Agriculture, CC-BY-2.0

Attention Lion’s Head Climbers!!

Ropes MUST NOT BE PULLED from trees. Bark is sensitive, and crucial to protecting the tree from the elements and bugs. Please protect the trees at Lion’s Head as environmental damage could impact our access to climbing.

The OAC strongly recommends using the descent gully while climbing at Lion’s Head. If you must rappel, set up a fixed line and protect the tree with a towel, foam pad or similar item. The use of flat webbing is better at distributing force along a larger area and causes less impact on the tree. Using webbing will also save your rope from sap, dirt and debris.

Please let your climber friends know the sensitivities surrounding pulling ropes off of tree (at Lion’s Head and beyond). Feel free to get in touch with the OAC with any questions.

Photo credit: US Department of Agriculture, CC-BY-2.0

I’ve got my new waterproof Bluetooth speaker in my pack and I’m ready to send to my favorite jam. A new track just dropped by Avicii and it is amazeballs. Climbers around me are going to lovvvvve itttttt. Birds and waves and wind all that nature stuff is not as fresh as this sound. Other climbers will just let me know if they don’t like EDM.

What? Huh?
I can’t hear you.
Take? OK? No, no. no. Rock?

Music is great. Nature noises are better. Communication between climber and belayer is better still.

Photo credit: Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23155665

I’ve got my new waterproof Bluetooth speaker in my pack and I’m ready to send to my favorite jam. A new track just dropped by Avicii and it is amazeballs. Climbers around me are going to lovvvvve itttttt. Birds and waves and wind all that nature stuff is not as fresh as this sound. Other climbers will just let me know if they don’t like EDM.

What? Huh?
I can’t hear you.
Take? OK? No, no. no. Rock?

Music is great. Nature noises are better. Communication between climber and belayer is better still.

Photo credit: Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23155665

You know what makes a cliff great on an awesome day? Climbing with a big group of friends. More than four makes the pack complete. Yeah, nature’s quiet and solitude are cool, but we only get out here together once a year so we really don’t feel like climbing in pairs. It’s just easier to take over a whole bunch of routes in one area so that other climbers can’t intrude on The Wolfpack! I know, breaking large groups up into small groups is better for access, but since we all climb together at the gym, I can’t really imagine us climbing apart. Sorry, other climbers, you will just need to deal with the Wolfpack – “Wolfpack for Life”.

Climbing in large groups causes issues ranging from excessive noise to greater impact on unique terrain like ledges and steep scree. Climb with a partner, break larger groups up across the crag, and get a ninja badge.

Photo by Doug Smith – http://www.nps.gov/yell/photosmultimedia/photogallery%2Ehtm?eid=379961&root_aId=547#e_379961, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6888427