Climbers contacted in protected cave area

Heard on: Boulder County CO Public Works

01:18

This transcript is auto-generated from live dispatch audio and may be incomplete or inaccurate. It is not an official report and may change.

00:00

Hey, if you get a chance, there's two people trying to climb inside the cave.

00:07

Copy. How would you like me to approach the contact?

00:13

Need to let them know that it's a culturally sensitive area and that.

00:17

That those climbing aids are removed for a reason, and that we are discouraging climbing inside that cave from now on.

00:33

(name withheld), are they bouldering or are they trying to actually set up a support route or a trail route?

00:42

Yeah, they're hanging from inside the cave.

00:45

So they're already kind of using those devices that we tried to remove.

00:56

Copy. Sounds like they're just using the anchors and cutting up their own quick draws.

01:02

I'll go chat with them.

01:06

Copy. Yeah, I'm not sure exactly how they're doing that, but yeah, if you get a chance, have a conversation.

01:16

Copy. I'll head down there in a minute.

2026-10-13 23:27 UTC

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Eldorado Canyon State Park, 9 Kneale Rd, Eldorado Springs, CO 80025

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As discussed during the dispatch call, officers and park rangers respond to a report of two people climbing inside a cave in a culturally sensitive area at Eldorado Canyon State Park. They plan to speak with the climbers and discourage the use of anchors and climbing aids that have been removed.