The Australian Climbing Association (NSW) (ACANSW) has some dire news regarding access to climbing areas at Mt Alexandra crag near Mittagon g. Seems the local Wingecarribee Shire Council (WSC), without consultation with any climbing organisation, has enacted closure of Mt Alexandra crag near Mittagong. This despite years of work by ACANSW consulting with local custodians about access to these amazing climbing areas. Please write to the Hon Mark Banasiak MP (Shooters and Fishers Party NSW) who is chairing the NSW inquiry into public access to public lands in NSW and voice your objections. His email: mark.banasiak@parliament.nsw.gov.au Link to ACANSW post... https://www.acansw.org.au/index.cfm?module=news&pagemode=indiv&page_id=3122600 Even expensive gates put up blocking access on a public trail (below). Enough of this nonsense - these places are for ALL to enjoy. What can you do in the meantime? Call WSC as sugg...
Our mountains belong to all of us. The Right to Climb them and bask in their views that inspire awe and wonder is as old as the human genome. This long-established cultural tradition is under threat by a small group of bureaucrats determined to impose their way on the rest of the world. It is right to Climb because we have the Right to climb. If you don’t exercise your rights you lose them. Don't let petty nanny state bureaucrats take them away.