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Closure of Summit Rock - due to nesting! You must know about the closure of Summit Rock due to a pair of nesting peregrin falcons, don't you? County Parks has a horse ranger plus support trucks and personnel out there every weekend chasing off climbers. What has happened is that the Mitigation process attached to the Sanborn County Trails Master Plan is being used as a pretext to shut down Summit Rock for climbers. There's one pair of Peregrines nesting on one route and the County is making it into a pretext to close the whole area to climbing. Summit should reopen on July 31st when the chics fledge, but County Parks is saying that Summit must be closed to public access as long as they live there, whether they are nesting or not. The County has got a requisition for a Horse Patrol ranger and supporting vehicles including a brand new trailer to enforce this ordinance. The problem is that not one climbing group made any input into the Master Plan formulation process, which means that only equestrians, mountain bikers (i.e. ROMP), and hikers have controlled the process for their ends (i.e. dogs off leash, new mountain bike trails). I mean, for gosh sakes, climbers have been going to Summit for nearly 50 years. Here's the Trail Master Plan We want to hear what you have to say!

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