what is it about this place that gets you guys so fired up about climbing there, and birds - what is it about the birds that gets everyone so upset? Just get a shotgun and take care of them if that is what is making you guys so whinny! All I have ever heard about you guys that climb at the beacon rock is that you climb a giant dung heap like its El Cap, or Long's, or something else world-class. CorvallisClimb is right - why don't you guys go climb somewhere else and give up on the place?!?