Post #36
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06 Jul 2020, 20:41
I worked with people who were assigned to rescue people on the face of El Capitan.
Management shouldn't allow people to climb this face because it's too dangerous to rescue a person halfway up and stuck.
One of the reasons it's a popular climb is that it's visible from the park road and lodge and the
"hero" mountaineer gets an audience.
There's a trail with chains and cross bars to the top from the far side and in wet weather, it's really slippery. That is why the park service put the safety devices in.
One more thing: The face of El Capitan has (or maybe used to have - perhaps they got rangers to remove them) - hundred of pitons embedded in the granite. I tried to get management to make the climbers remove them after they've made the climb but it was pretty far down on our demand list and didn't get done at that time.
The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged.
