Ruth Lake and Climber Registration

Have you ever wondered what happens to your $3 access fee every time you head into the Uintas to climb?  I've thought this a number of times.  Many of you may have noticed as you start out on the trail to the Ruth Lake climbing walls that there is a trail registration folder where you are asked to register your group.  If you're like me and the majority of other climbers you pass by either without noticing the registration or you think, "That's for overnight campers, not for me".  We are wrong, it is for us.

The reality is that climbers are not registering at trail heads and therefore are not even showing up on the radar screen as a user group in the Uintas.  The Forest Service uses the access fees to address different needs including but not limited to the various user groups.  Since climbers haven't been registering, little to none of your access fees have been going to projects surrounding climber needs.

Please let your fellow climbers know that taking a couple of moments to register at the Ruth Lake trail head will bring more attention to climber's needs and keep the money you pay coming right back to you in the form of trail work and other projects that support climber areas.