On face value this announcement (Mt Warning to reopen) is good news but I'm waiting to see what conditions are attached. If it means people can walk up without paying as they used to then great, a small fee or the need to join a tour group then not so good/unacceptable. The timeframe for reopening remains ridiculous - Mt Warning summit track could easily be reopened to tourists by Easter 2026. All that is required is a minor clean up of fallen trees that you can currently scamper over or walk around. The summit lookouts require some minor maintenance. The chain is not required and any move to replace it can wait (or it could be replaced/restored in that timeframe). As reported by Jeremy Pierce in the Courier Mail: Mt Warning shock: Summit trail to reopen after controversial closure Courier Mail: Wollumbin/Mount Warning summit trail to reopen after years-long closure. The controversial “temporary” five-year closure of the Wollumbin/Mount Warning trail is to be overturned, but there...
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.