It appears to me that
SGWA maybe should revisit or correct their regs.
SGWA doesn't have or issue regs. They are a private non-profit with no authority whatever that I can discern. They can be, and apparently are, just as misinformed as anyone else. Like Inyo and the IAVC about the WAG bag "requirement", for example. That one is even in the Inyo NF official publications, and its wrong. It pays ( or at least it should) to go straight to the CFR.