Wedgewood Rock

[flashclimber]

Anyone ever get caught climbing on Wedgewood Rock? Looks like there could be some killer boulder routes on it...But $100 fine would also be a killer!

[MisterMo]

A group of us were regular visitors there around about 1970 or so. Young, hirsute, energetic, profane, and decidedly non-stealthy, we were a threat to the established order of things out there in Wedge-wood and basically got the same warm welcome that meth cooks would today. Hence the ordinance. We went bravely before the Seattle City Council to appeal and got absolutely nowhere.

 

But maybe it's time to revisit the issue. There are/were some cool routes on that little thing.

[forrest_m]

i posted this once before, on this thread, where a bunch of people recounted their experiences.

 

that boulder was on my paper route when i was 13, when i was just getting into climbing. i would do the easy route in my tennis shoes a couple of times every day. when you're a goofy kid, people expect you to do stuff like that and i never got any hassle. or maybe they knew that if they called the cops, they'd never get a newspaper again. i don't ever remember seeing graffiti back then, but i did once see some people set up a top rope on it.

[MisterMo]

I guess what I mean by revisit is to work at getting that ordinance repealed. It was a stupid law when it was passed. It's a stupid law now.

[catbirdseat]

Maybe this is an issue for the Washington Climber's Coalition?

[chucK]

Or maybe it isn't.

 

Not every boulder needs to be climbed.

[Szyjakowski]

Or maybe it isn't.

 

Not every boulder needs to be climbed.

whoooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaa. wtf you talking about honkey?!?

every boulder must have a topo, name, tick marked path and a 3page photo spread. boulderers unite and lets get tribal!!