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Would like to see something monumental happen soon in the Climbing Industry
Found the first climb in America in Smuggler's Notch and documented the history behind it all on FB - /SecretMission4King
Was looking to set up some practice areas and finished off my playground at the Ethan Allen Tower in Burlington in 2020 just to set the record straight
Won't be letting the local "community" do anything to damage these locations anymore
They were planning to move into set up a climbing area on the location I began to put up routes in back in the day when I trained the first Junior National Climbing Team in Vermont, launching them to Nationals and then 3 to Worlds in Russia.
They like to erase my work and try to "revision" it as theirs and theirs alone, while selling eachother memberships to their own private cliffs.
They have made themselves into sort of separatist state and had a group of young Juden that were moving their mouth more than their money around town, so I invested into the anchors (as I began bolting the toprope anchors in 1998) and finished the other routes with a brotha I know well and had set some incredible routes with, a new prodigy climber.
Now we have a fairly safe landing for each route, a trail that services them all, and makes more sense than allowing them to put up more "lead" routes.....they can practice at the gym and at their private cliff they built for themselves on the waterfront....fucking pigs.
For example me and a Gunks hardman took on a location called Beartrap to bolt up sick limestone routes with lead anchors and they convinced the owners to restrict climbing to anyone but Burton employees. They sold their land and the new owner came in a chopped the bolts instead of trying to re-delineate the cliff as part of the Lamoille River Recreation Area which sits next to the cliff.
Now when these groups with CragVT were being used to raise money they did nothing but bolt a place up called Bolton WAY outta town.
