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- From: elmar@ocf.berkeley.edu (Elmar Stefke)
- Newsgroups: rec.climbing
- Subject: MORE ANOTHER CLIMBING CLUB
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 18:21:01 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
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- It seems that I stepped on alot of toes with my recent article about another
- climbing club? I'd like to apologize for my lack of knowledge of Access
- Fund policy, which shifts responsibility to local clubs. However, I still
- contend that in the future, access and other decisions regarding public land
- use (not limited to climbers) may be made at the federal level (vs. by local
- federal or state officials, as is the current system). At this point it
- would be nice to have one unified climbing association, be it the AAC or
- Access Fund or some other organization. I'm thinking along the lines of
- the German or Austrian Alpine Club or, in the US, the Sierra Club Organization.
- These clubs are organized into local, regional, and national factions under
- one umbrella organization. They let locals deal with local issues, but are
- ready to tackle problems on a larger scale if the need and desire arises.
- It seems to me that climbers lack such an organization, partly because of
- splits in the climbing community (Robbins vs. sportclimbers etc.), but largely
- because of policies and actions which encourage small, splintered local groups.
- I salute these individual groups for their efforts (clean-ups, local
- negotiations, etc.), but urge them to unify.
- Elmar Stefke
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