Rockhopper Mountaineering

PC: Manish Mamtani

"Salt Lake City Ponies Up 1.5M"

What the county failed to do, the city leads the way and pushes the deadline on saving Bonanza Flats into mid-June. Mayor Biskupski & the SLC council are to be praised for their forward thinking backed by positive action. Tkx.

http://www.sltrib.com/news/5087220-155/salt-lake-city-ponies-up-15m
PC: Wasatch Backcountry Alliance

Salt Lake County FAILS.

RhM attended the Council meeting and witnessed the over-whelming support to have the County help pay for Bonanza Flats.

Saddly that did NOT happen. After all the reasoning & arguements, one statement by Mayor Ben McAdams rang clear when he spoke of the impact the proposed development would have on the watershed, and suggested there would be "big headaches in the long run" with the inevitable pressure to keep Guardsman Pass open (associated cost of winter plowing), and the increased traffic in BCC. Over time, these expenses could dwarf the current outlay needed to save the Flats.

Short sighted at best; failed stewardship at worst. Sad day for the current residents of the Wasatch, and future generations to come.

http://www.sltrib.com/news/5058592-155/salt-lake-county-wont-help-pay

PC: NPS

PC: GTNP

OpEd : : We Don't Need No Education.

What attracted RhM to this article was the learning curve of these two Vermont brothers in a non-tradional approach---freed from a "compulsory watch-the-clock-until-the-bell-rings" kind setting.

RhM isn't advocating home schooling here, but rather getting active in your children's curriculum, and schooling them in the out of doors & wilderness on your own. It's well documented the benefits of wildness.

http://www.outsideonline.com/1928266/we-dont-need-no-education

R.I.P: Royal Robbins
Climbing pioneer Royal Robbins died yesterday in Modesto at age 82 after a lengthy illness.

https://www.outsideonline.com/2165441/royal-robbins-obituary?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=facebookpost

The rock savant and business man was an early evangelist for the clean climbing revolution, and one of the greatest climbers of Yosemite’s golden years.

In 1957 he put up the first grade VI climb in America, the Northwest Face of Half Dome. His competitive drive was the impetus for Yosemite ’s Golden Age, a period of such progress that it may never be matched. Robbins’ laundry list of firsts stretches around the globe, but most remarkable is the Salathé Wall in 1961. A serpentine, natural line that he, Tom Frost and Chuck Pratt pioneered in semi-alpine style with just 13 bolts – a hole count that remains El Cap’s lowest.

https://www.adventure-journal.com/2017/03/climbing-pioneer-royal-robbins-dies-age-82/
http://www.alpinist.com/doc/web17w/newswire-royal-robbins-obituary
http://www.npr.org/2017/03/17/520576895/royal-robbins-pioneer-of-american-rock-climbing-dies-at-82

Related post: https://www.facebook.com/533882016633466/photos/a.575675782454089.1073741835.533882016633466/575676222454045/?type=3&theater

PC: Mike Jackson

First night of the World Tour's stop at Kingsbury Hall showed to a near capacity crowd last night. Two more nights with limited seating still available. Don't miss our hometown screening of the Banff Mtn Film Festival.

While the debate rages on over the privatization and/or the whole$ale/$ale of public lands, RhM encourages all to take a moment and consider the words of Robert Frost who said: "I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."

If like most, you believe that Frost is suggesting that following a less-popular path is an act of courage, rebellion or assertion of individuality, you are mistaken. Frost was, in fact, mocking his friend, Edward Thomas, who was in the habit of always wondering whether he should have taken an alternate path than he had essentially suggesting that it makes very little difference.
A road, no matter how well traveled, will always---always---take you somewhere others have been before you. ~ Jason Kirkey, "The Wind in the Pines" from "Wildness: Voices of the Sacred Landscape.

“Do not jump into your automobile and rush out to the canyon country hoping to see some of that which I have attempted to evoke in these pages. In the first place, you can’t see anything from a car; you’re got to get out other damned contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on your hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thorn brush and cactus. When traces of blood begin to mark your trail you’ll see something , maybe.” ~Edward Abbey

PC & thoughts: Guy Tal