gw claims to love america....................???
inacan you listed quite a few ways you can help improve index, but it seems your judgement or "new route ego" prevailed over the smart thing to do. if you have climbed there since '89 then i would think that you would know that the weather changes quickly and that people do climb there anytime of the week. so maybe cleaning huge swaths of dirt and what not around one of the most popular routes in washington might be saved for a time when you minimize your impact towards others activies, it would only fair. you cite that peoples' negative reactions bummed you out, well think of what all the dirt did for them. and clean off the ledges is a pretty big project, so why would you start something that you could not finnish in a day?
have a nice day