More 7 mil.

Running right over sharp edges.

Seneca Rocks Climbing Management Plan

From Neil Arsenault:

Folks,

 

I have an email from Alexander Schlueter, North Zone Recreation Staff Officer, Monongahela National Forest.

This is the guy who set-up and ran the on-line meeting.

 

His email reads in part - "We do not have plans to make discussion recordings public. However, there have been requests to make the notes from the workshops public. I’m working to get authorization and to figure out how best to do so."

 

This is in response to a request to him to actually make public the recordings of the Seneca CMP meeting.

"We do not have plans to make discussion recordings public."  Even though Alex Schlueter had agreed before hand that the meeting would be recorded and shared.

This meeting was obviously open to participation by the public. "... working to get authorization" ? 

 

At this point there has been a Freedom of Information Act request sent to the Monongahela National Forest headquarters in Elkins.

 

However..... if anyone who was on the Zoom meeting recorded it themselves that would be more than helpful. 

We may need more than one version of any recording since the last part of the meeting broke into 4 smaller separate workgroups.

 

I am asking members of the AAC, MAC, The Explorers Club of Pittsburgh, Friends of Seneca, The Southwestern Pennsylvania Climbers Coalition, South Central Pennsylvania Climbers, or others to forward this request for recordings to their fellow members.

 

Thanks,

 

R.Neil Arsenault

Thou shalt have two anchors though one shall suck mightily.

Mystery knot, lots of extra tail and doubled runner...

but he comes up inches short. One carabiner is a wire gate, not ideal for top roping.

Don't trust the 3 foot diameter tree? Add a shoelace around a loose rock.

Is it really better than nothing?

Dead tree, small tree, how about both?

The big one in the back is dead. Don't believe me? Look carefully at the fungus all over the trunk. If you don't know dead, fungus does.

Good thing there were no hikers.

Single strand webbing, waiting for unsuspecting hikers.

OK...

Cams cost a lot, that doesn't mean they work well in this rock. The rock breaks.

Use the smaller tree? A carabiner isn't a great substitute for a knot.

If you can't tie the right knot, tie lots.

The knot is a sort of double fisherman's.

The knot is at upper left, the rope runs around the rock, like a tensionless anchor, but it is doing nothing.

Camp Kill Your Kid comes to Carderock

"Stop defacing the rock," said the teenage girl trying to wrangle 8 campers.

This was around the corner.

Their "guide" had them tied off to a dead tree. 

Another hiker trap.