Why don't you cheap bastards get over yourselves. Considering the fact that you're lucky as hell to live and play in one of the World's most outrageous mountain ranges, I don't think it's worth bitching over some modest user fees. If you can't afford $200-300 a year to play, I suggest you take up knitting. Hell, I spend more on a weekend party than a year's worth of user fees. Most hobbies -- ORVs, golf, trap & skeet, boating, flying, diving, whoring, drinking, gambling, etc... can break the bank and no one grumbles. I'm all in favor of lower taxation and letting special interest groups, i.e. climbers and ORV'ers for instance, pay user fees to support their representative hobby. Why should a person totally uninvolved with any outdoor pursuits pay recreation fees? Why should a person that could care less about football have to pay for the new football stadium? (Insert myriad examples here.) So pay to play and quit your bitching.
...and Schuldt, quit skating and pay your damn bar bill.