Pad Stashing in RMNP

Published: August 1, 2007, 3:02 pm

Tags: bouldering, access, rmnp, access fund

Back in the day when I visited RMNP to explore the alpine bouldering there was to be done there, I distinctly remember seeing some pads around the boulders that curiously didn't seem to have any owners. There were only a handful of people bouldering in the Park on a given day back then so it was pretty easy to tell that these pads must have been stashed there by someone. The real dead giveaway was the fact that one of the pads was one of those over-sized voodoo pads that you would have to be insane to hike in with on a regular basis.It made sense on some level though as many of the problems had ridiculously poor landings and more pads were sometimes needed than could be carried by a small group of climbers. However, I remember some of the locals telling us at the time that the rangers didn't like seeing people with pads all over the Bear Lake parking lot but somehow I didn't think they would prefer to have them simply left underneath the boulders. As you will see below, out of

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