Squid Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 Could someone remind me/ link me to the section of the Seattle municipal code that bans climbing on the Wedgwood Rock (mattp, I know you have this memorized)? Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squid Posted March 8, 2006 Author Share Posted March 8, 2006 SMC 12A.54.010 Climbing prohibited. It is unlawful for anyone to climb or be upon that certain rock or boulder known as the "Wedgewood Rock" located within the public street area at the intersection of Northeast 72nd Street and 28th Avenue Northeast. (Ord. 99363 Section 1(a), 1970.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 Let's do a citizen's inititive to repeal that ordnance! If Tim Eyman can do it, why not a Squid? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weekend_Climberz Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 SMC 12A.54.010 Climbing prohibited. It is unlawful for anyone to climb or be upon that certain rock or boulder known as the "Wedgewood Rock" located within the public street area at the intersection of Northeast 72nd Street and 28th Avenue Northeast. (Ord. 99363 Section 1(a), 1970.) I have a hard time believing that they would enforce this ordinance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squid Posted March 8, 2006 Author Share Posted March 8, 2006 I have a hard time believing that they would enforce this ordinance. It's all fun-n-games until you're sharing a cell with Bubba and his meth habit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dt_3pin Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 SMC 12A.54.010 Climbing prohibited. It is unlawful for anyone to climb or be upon that certain rock or boulder known as the "Wedgewood Rock" located within the public street area at the intersection of Northeast 72nd Street and 28th Avenue Northeast. (Ord. 99363 Section 1(a), 1970.) I'm glad to see that the City is focused on the important issues of the day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyHarry Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 Wouldn't want to encourage citizens to exercise and be healthy or anything like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weekend_Climberz Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 Wouldn't want to encourage citizens to exercise and be healthy or anything like that. Yeah, this is what it looks like after they miss that final pull-down. Can you make out the spotter beneath him?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catbirdseat Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 OMFG, that's the grossest picture I've seen this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squid Posted March 8, 2006 Author Share Posted March 8, 2006 You should see what happens when they flip it over. Kind of like a halibut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weekend_Climberz Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 First time I saw it I was thinking, were does his ass crack begin and the legs end?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottP Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 SMC 12A.54.010 Climbing prohibited. It is unlawful for anyone to climb or be upon that certain rock or boulder known as the "Wedgewood Rock" located within the public street area at the intersection of Northeast 72nd Street and 28th Avenue Northeast. (Ord. 99363 Section 1(a), 1970.) I have a hard time believing that they would enforce this ordinance. I bouldered all over that thing when I lived a few blocks north of there in the early 90's. Nobody said a word to me over about 5 years time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterMo Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 Let's do a citizen's inititive to repeal that ordnance! If Tim Eyman can do it, why not a Squid? By all means............. Old thread # 1 Old thread # 2 Sign me up for any efforts to get the city fathers to see the light. I was part of the original, doomed attempt to have climbing there not be illegal. It would be fun to go back and win. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icegirl Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 I've bouldered on it on and off over the past 5 years and no one has ever called the cops on me or bothered me... Course I was by myself and not with a group of beer drinking, dope smoking boulderers chanting "SEND! SEND! SEND!" in someones "parking strip" ' /me snickers... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalius Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 I drive by there once in a while. I always thought that it was part of somebody's property and climbing on it would be considered tresspassing. Led me to think it was a waste that climbers probably did not live there. This thing is on public property? It's like 20 ft. from somebody's living room. Why aren't there more of these things around? Seems weird to only have one in the area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ketch Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 Knowing that this thing has anything to do with city government it brings a whole new meaning to Glacial erratic. Do you supose the law ever would get changed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choss_headwall Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 that thing is a slippery piece of shit, and the tree blocks the full traverse, anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PullinFool Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 Boy! That sure brings back some memories! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancegranite Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 Lake Stevens was one of my first times climbing. It really was a fun spot, I had friends who climbed there quite a bit. The Lake Stevens rock would be a good Access Fund or WCC project, and I'm sure that the local fire department or SAR would like a place to rap/ rescue practice... LINK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choss_headwall Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 In the early 1900s Edmond Meany, a professor at the University of Washington (also an early President of the Mountaineers) lead expeditions to the rock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterMo Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 In the early 1900s Edmond Meany, a professor at the University of Washington (also an early President of the Mountaineers) lead expeditions to the rock In the early 1900's a trip out to the Rock involved a hike from somewhere...no houses, no streets, no stupid ordinances. It probably made a pretty nice day wandering out there through some fairly big timber & on up to view ridge for a view of the lake. Probably not to dissimilar from going up to Flattop in Anchorage in the afternoon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 The kids in the neighborhood periodically hang a knotted rope off the tree adjacent to the south side and have at it. Given that it is on someone's property I just pat it as I go by on a run. It's pretty mossy these days. Orginally it was called Picnic Rock and was a popular outing spot on weekends from Seattle. In the 40's when the development was going it the plans were to dynamite it and cart it off. A groundswell of public support nixed that idea. The dry cleaners on 35th Ave NE, across from the Grateful Bread has a little history of newspaper clippings that is an interesting read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 Oh this is good- "In 1970, Wedgwood Rock acquired a new reputation. Some neighbors complained to the city council about hippies who frequented the rock. Complainants reported that, "dirty, long-haired, bearded individuals" (Lake City Star) loitered around the rock, climbed it, and disturbed the neighborhood. Climbers were accused of harassing citizens, taking drugs while on the rock, and using abusive language. The petitioners expressed the belief that Big Rock was being used by hippies to identify homes to burglarize. In October 1970, the city council took the situation seriously and passed an ordinance making it a crime to climb Big Rock, punishable by a fine of $100. " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dechristo Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 fucking burglar hippies always spoil everything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icegirl Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 hmm isn't that what I said? "dope smoking beer drinking boulderers chanting "SEND! SEND! SEND!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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