If anyone is curious I just asked a WhatsApp group of about 20 people whether they'd heard of the RAD. They're all relatively new to outdoor bouldering but most have been to font, have climbed on a variety of grit and non grit crags, across Yorkshire and the Peak, some have climbed in the Lakes, Wales and Scotland, and some have previously suggested going to places like Churnet. Literally the only person who had ever heard of it was me. Clearly there is a knowledge gap.
I bow to your experience on these matters Bonjoy. I will say however that my feeling is that [ambiguous] grey area situations can be good but can only withstand so much traffic before they start to fall apart. As numbers go up the grey area agreements and "climbing is not explicitly allowed but tolerated if kept quiet" type situations are going to be under more and more pressure.
Just one thought re: UKC and how they could do their bit to help things. Crags with known access issues/restrictions could have restricted visibility on there behind a click-through screen with all the access info on, so you had to tick to acknowledge you’d read it before you could see any of the content inc. logbooks/photos etc. Granted people will likely still ignore it if that way inclined but at least it removes the defence of ignorance.
Quote from: Wellsy on May 17, 2023, 01:23:01 pmIf anyone is curious I just asked a WhatsApp group of about 20 people whether they'd heard of the RAD. They're all relatively new to outdoor bouldering but most have been to font, have climbed on a variety of grit and non grit crags, across Yorkshire and the Peak, some have climbed in the Lakes, Wales and Scotland, and some have previously suggested going to places like Churnet. Literally the only person who had ever heard of it was me. Clearly there is a knowledge gap.I don't think this is just new climbers. I would consider myself fairly experienced (certainly not the most) but haven't heard of RAD. My go to for this info would be guidebooks, and UKC.