ncreased popularity, especially among the mainstream, means more restrictions. It means areas where climbing is banned, rather than being unknown.
Source of this happening?
It means buzzing drones and birthday parties at the local crag.
Drones are prohibited in many climbing areas by law. You can't just take kids to a crag for a birthday party.
It means more deaths of kids because their dumbass dad went to REI and thought a 10 minute chat with the guy who works the bike section was enough to learn how to set an anchor.
No, it doesn't. There are tons of people climbing unsafely already and it has nothing to do with Sierra Blair-Coyle
Simply put, the more popular climbing gets, the more difficult it will be to be free.
No, it won't. Sorry you feel the need to keep people from being able to find things they enjoy, but that kind of attitude isn't what climbing is about. What is with all these people so obsessed with being some fringe culture instead of having fun?
You know, you used to be able to scuba dive without a certification, too...
You still can. Go buy the equipment and dive if you want to. No one is stopping you.
The point of climbing isn't to have fun.
Yes, it is. If you have hobbies that you don't enjoy then you're too dumb to understand the point of hobbies. Just because you define fun differently doesn't mean that isn't the whole point of climbing. Your whole speech about your hipster fringe culture does not change that.
What I have a problem with is the companies which are selling her sex appeal to the masses in an attempt to increase their bottom line, with no consideration to what this explosive growth will do to the soul of climbing.
People like you are destroying the soul of climbing more than she ever could. You are actively trying to push people away from climbing so that you can be part of some exclusive club. You care more about looking cool than having fun. You sit on the internet all day and bitch about people enjoying themselves instead of actually enjoying yourself. Quit your bitching and go climb a rock.