The Stawamus Chief Provincial Park announced today that they will be moving to a reservation and guided tour system for the upcoming 2016 climbing season in Squamish, BC. Park officials have adopted the ‘Hueco Tanks’ system in order to reduce boulderers in the forest due to increased numbers. When asked about the changes, park rangers reported that there has been ‘an increased amount of users who seem to treat the boulders like a first year college dormitory.’

BC Parks officials flew down to El Paso, Texas earlier this year to meet some of the rangers at Hueco Tanks State Park to learn about the system. ‘We had a blast learning how to greet climbers at the gate and making them wait for very long periods of time’ noted one BC Park Liaison ‘The rangers seemed to really understand where climbers were coming from.’

The new system will be implemented this year, limiting boulderers in the park to 50 users a day. The reservation system had not been completely worked out at the time of writing, but one official indicated that there will be a website dedicated to reservations that will be ‘extremely frustrating’ and may ‘incite rage and negative feelings’ towards BC Parks.

Although the announcement came out today, it is not too late to petition the pending system. ‘All we have to do is pick up after ourselves, break up into smaller groups, realise that the we are using a public space, and treat the forest like a finite resource that needs to last for generations’ said one climber who would not give his name because he didn’t want to upset anyone.

For those climbers who want to make a difference and stop the proposed system in the Stawamus Chief Provincial Park, please find an older climber to teach you how to act in nature, who is preferably British, and doesn’t care about your feelings.

Ohh….and Happy April Fools everyone!

