Yosemite climbers unfurl transgender pride flag on iconic El Capitan
The group of LGBTQ activist climbers said the flag, which is 55 feet by 35 feet, is the largest ever displayed on the face of the world-famous rock climbing destination.
I don't think you'd find any bigots that could make the mental or physical effort to take it down.
They'd probably shoot at it though.
Unfortunately I've met a few.
I was a search and rescue mountaineer/EMT for a decade. There are bigots in the field. You get a lot of "conservatives" with military or law endorsement backgrounds.
Also, to take something like this down, you'd start from the top and rappel down to it. It's how they do most rescues on El Cap (or any cliff for that matter)
Good!
The same crowd that's fine with trash and dead bodies on Mt. Everest?
Bad faith argument. You don't actually care about Everest. You are looking for a double standard without understanding what you are actually comparing.
these 2 things are completely different issues. the mt everest is rich westerners, from europe and all over going there.
Pretty rich from someone from the crowd who's fine with trash and dead bodies everywhere else.
They made the damn cliff gay. Because of woke
We will prevail. Love wins. 💙🩷🤍🩷💙
It's like that happy days episode where they ended world hunger by playing a song at pop's.
Rocky single handedly ended the Cold War in Rocky 4!
I can see why people who spend their lives, through no choice of their own, between a rock and a hard place, would find lifting themselves like magic up a massive rock face with only the sun and glorious air at their backs elating in comparison.
It takes only a cursory look at the strange, outcast filled history of rock climbing to see why the community might understand the importance of solidarity with people that just can't fit into the box.
Obviously we can never know if the first rock climbers were queer, but to wonder if maybe your heart desires to climb straight up a cliff into the sky and then develop the skill, knowledge and support to do so is certainly a queer thing to do.
Love & Respect 🏳️⚧️
Anyone complaining about this because flag on cliff knows nothing of climbing history in Yosemite. Flags have been flown by people climbing el cap for a long time.
Ammon McNeely was a genuine legend of Yosemite and big wall climbing in general. He was known as the el cap pirate for flying a skull and cross bones as he climbed. One example.
So if this uniquely upsets you then ask yourself why. Admit it's probably a bigoted response. If this does not uniquely upset you... Then you better be making arguments against climbing el cap at all as it has been climbed for decades. And I better see you getting just as pissed in the comment section of any climbing blog.
Leave no trace you motherfuckers.
Yes I am that guy who kicks over human made piles of rocks on the beach.
Read the fucking article motherfucker. It was up for 2-4 hours, they took it down themselves.
I like to imagine a giant eagle picked it up and flew around Yosemite with it.
'Leave no trace' is about litter, damage and vandalism.
Might blow your mind but people have been making piles of rocks of all sizes since prehistoric times - they are natural.
On the beach I don't know but depending on the area those can be trail markers and you should probably not knock them down especially in deep back country and instead pick up trash you find, otherwise people are gonna tie plastic or carve into trees to mark way points. Also at least in the united states some native Americans rock pile as part of their culture, I'm sure other places do too, as a jew I know I stack rocks on Graves so the rocks you knock over might be something important but I guess you are the main character so you do you
Not OP. Former NPS employee. Cairns are NOT used to mark trails in national parks. Stacking cairns in a national park is considered vandalism and you should not be doing it the same way you should not be scratching your name into goddamn rocks.
The practice of stacking cairns is so out of control I do not recommend you ever follow one on state or other lands. It is a good way to get lost following some influencer's a.e.s.t.h.e.t.i.c pile.
The only acceptable location for a cairn is a high energy beach environment so that the sea can wipe it away in a couple of hours.
National parks are intended to be enjoyed as close to natural as possible. Leave. No. Trace.
I think hanging a huge flag on a mountain you don't own is more main character syndrome
Thank you for your inukshukicidal spree
