Yes, I've got on my flame retardent suit; looks like it will get a workout. That's what I get for offering a few overly-extreme solutions to a problem that some people on this forum would like to ignore. I confess to being a pot-stirrer, but sometimes that's what it takes to get people to wake-up and do something about a problem.
Bob, my experience is that it is the pot-stirrers who achieve change and advancement. A healthy debate about assumptions is always good, though not always welcome.
I can't fathom, for example, the justification for all the permits on Whitney, when for a nearly identical mountain, Langley, it is far, far more restricted. In fact, I think Langley is about right.
Whitney is ridiculous. But the difference is not understandable from a resource perspective.
It is strictly a political issue.
