Ten Sleep

How a chipping and route-chopping war put a Wyoming climbing area on the radar of federal land managers, prompting new regulations. A look at how it all went so wrong.

Every five years or so, a major controversy erupts. This time, it is in Ten Sleep, a come-hither limestone area in Wyoming.

The list in its current form contains approximately 50 routes affected by actions undertaken by a group of anonymous climbers at the beginning of July 2019.

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An anonymous group of climbers has removed around 30 routes from Ten Sleep Canyon and padlocked the first bolts of dozens more in protest against some developers' "blatant disregard for the ethics of the landscape."

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