Banned Trigs/caches
Posted: 06 December 20 2:52 pm
Controversial topic! Assistance required.
Following on from the ban on climbing Ayers Rock last year and destruction of the summit cairn the NT parks service announced this week that from 1 March 2021 the informal walking track to the summit of Mt Gillen with its superb views over Alice Springs will be closed. There is a GC multi and GA trig point that will be made inaccessible due to the ban. I consider this action to be completely irrational and without basis in history. One of the earliest photos taken at the summit in 1926 (can view here... https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2020/12 ... any-years/) shows the then custodian of the mountain standing next to a group of men women and children he had guided up there. Presumably Charlie was well aware of the traditional rules and you would think his actions might set a precedent for future access. The recent claims of "trespass" do not stand up to close scrutiny on this basis and Alice Springs residents, tourists and geocachers face losing access to another remarkable adventure and view. But of course any attempt to challenge this results in the usual meaningless name calling. I understand the walking track to the summit of Mt Warning in NSW and St Mary's Peak in SA are coming under similar threat in the near future.
I am writing to relevant state, territory and federal Ministers and local land councils to draw attention to the loss of access to these remarkable places and request any geocachers who are similarly agrieved do so also. The hope is that these politically motivated bans might still be prevented some how. At the very least you can say to your children you did something about it.
Following on from the ban on climbing Ayers Rock last year and destruction of the summit cairn the NT parks service announced this week that from 1 March 2021 the informal walking track to the summit of Mt Gillen with its superb views over Alice Springs will be closed. There is a GC multi and GA trig point that will be made inaccessible due to the ban. I consider this action to be completely irrational and without basis in history. One of the earliest photos taken at the summit in 1926 (can view here... https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2020/12 ... any-years/) shows the then custodian of the mountain standing next to a group of men women and children he had guided up there. Presumably Charlie was well aware of the traditional rules and you would think his actions might set a precedent for future access. The recent claims of "trespass" do not stand up to close scrutiny on this basis and Alice Springs residents, tourists and geocachers face losing access to another remarkable adventure and view. But of course any attempt to challenge this results in the usual meaningless name calling. I understand the walking track to the summit of Mt Warning in NSW and St Mary's Peak in SA are coming under similar threat in the near future.
I am writing to relevant state, territory and federal Ministers and local land councils to draw attention to the loss of access to these remarkable places and request any geocachers who are similarly agrieved do so also. The hope is that these politically motivated bans might still be prevented some how. At the very least you can say to your children you did something about it.