The U.S. Forest Service's policy would require local authorities to create "climbing management plans" that regulate climbing ...

A debate over the use of fixed climbing anchors in designated wilderness areas has been simmering over the past couple months after federal agencies proposed new guidance that could impact their use.

Climbers worried about the future of their sport in wilderness areas can take a big sigh of relief. On Wednesday, the National Park Service (NPS) decided against a plan to prohibit fixed anchors — the ...

On Thursday, the Forest Service opened up a 30-day comment period for its first proposed national policy for rock climbing on ...

behind them holds an even more powerful allure. Since the 1950s, the 40 jagged peaks of the Sawtooth Range that soar 10,000 feet out of the spruces and lodgepole and ponderosa pines have beckoned rock ...

With his signature, National Park Service director Jonathan Jarvis on Monday answered a question that has plagued climbing access advocates as well as wilderness advocates for decades: can climbers ...

SEATTLE – Next summer, climbers in the Cascades will not have to fret over fixing an unsafe anchor in order to secure a rope to the side of a mountain. Last Wednesday, the National Park Service ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... We humans want the most out of life, so why shouldn’t we push to get more of what we want? That’s what some rock climbers must be thinking. They want to ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Mountaineers who have expressed concern over proposed changes to the rules federal agencies use in regulating rock climbing safety equipment in wilderness ...

The land agencies are taking steps to protect establishing climbing routes and their “fixed anchors,” which have been a ...