Action Committee for Eldorado Background
The Action Committee for Eldorado (ACE) is a
nonprofit organization that is staffed by dedicated volunteers who are
committed to conserving Eldorado Canyon State Park. The ACE Board of
Directors is comprised of representatives from the Access Fund, the
American Alpine Club, the American Mountain Guides Association, and the
Colorado Mountain Club, as well as unaffiliated members drawn from the
climbing community. ACE has raised over $150,000 for the Park, and has
organized and promoted thousands of hours of volunteer time creating and
maintaining trails, planting trees, and assisting the Park in numerous
other ways.
Fixed Hardware Review Committee
ACE also organizes and manages the Fixed Hardware
Review Committee (FHRC). Each year the ACE Board of Directors appoints
local climbers to serve on the FHRC, which reviews applications for new
routes requiring fixed gear. FHRC members are responsible for polling the
climbing community to determine whether the community supports new route
proposals and proposals regarding the addition or relocation of fixed
gear. Based on the results of the survey of the climbing community's
opinion, the FHRC makes a recommendation to the Park to either approve or
disapprove those proposals.
|
Celebrate Eldorado
As a result of Eldorado
Canyon State Park's willingness to work with the climbing community to
allow the continued establishment of new routes, climbers organized the
first Eldorado chalk cleanup in 1991. ACE took over the chalk cleanup in
1992 and expanded the event over the years to become Celebrate Eldorado, a
weekend-long gathering of volunteers, fundraising, and celebration.
Activities at Celebrate Eldorado have taken many forms, including fixed
hardware replacement, trail work, chalk cleanup, fundraising Climbathons,
replanting efforts, and various gala events that feature fundraising
auctions of donated gear. Since its inception, ACE has raised a total of
over $150,000 for Eldorado through Celebrate Eldorado and other private
fundraising efforts.
Celebrate Eldorado 2003 is
scheduled for 13-14 September, 2003.
Fixed Hardware Replacement
A central activity at
Celebrate Eldorado is fixed hardware replacement. Working from a list
developed by the climbing community, qualified volunteers carefully
replace fixed gear over the Celebrate Eldorado weekend.
|
