Jaraguá reopens the climbing route – 03/23/2023 – É Logo Ali
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The oldest mountaineers in Brazil are well aware of the climbing routes located in the Jaraguá state park, 23 kilometers from the center of São Paulo. Several generations have learned to climb on its rocks since the 1950s, a time when equipment was rare, expensive and heavy, and this business of hanging from hills, a thing for half a dozen crazy people. After some accidents, the main route (paths traced in the rock, with different levels of difficulty and configurations), called C3 (Field 3), was closed and the plans for its recovery were forgotten for decades. Finally, in 2018, someone found the project in a drawer and decided to resume the endeavor. With the help of a handful of volunteers and a bit of paperwork, the track is finally ready to be cleared — to match real-life paperwork.
On the 3rd of March, Public Call No. 012/2023 was published in the Official Gazette of São Paulo, calling on those interested in using the historic climbing route to register with the Forestry Foundation, demonstrating that they meet a long series of requirements. The excessive detailing of the announcement caused surprise to some practitioners, who fear the creation of a kind of market reserve for a few agencies or academies. When contacted, Fundação Florestal, responsible for the unit, and the park manager, Gustavo Lopes do Espírito Santo, did not comment until the publication of this text.
The job of reopening the C3 road, according to Fábio Alberti Cascino, from Clube Alpino Paulista, who participated in the project, included the removal of all the staples and old plates, the repaving of the road for the passage of the ropes, and, to complicate the things, the vacating of a huge hive of bees installed in one of the main crevices.
“The bees were just a few meters away from the access to the road, and they attacked anyone passing by”, says Cascino. “They had already been removed once by firefighters, who were unable to catch the queen and, with that, the hive reinstalled itself in the place”, he adds.
Armed with the traditional attire for handling bees, Cascino removed the bees again, passed a chemical product that intends to prevent them from returning and cleared the way for their sporting and, mainly, educational use. Because they are not large stone structures, boasting less than 10 meters in height, the C3 is ideal for teaching the first steps to those who are willing to venture uphill. And if from there to Everest is a long and arduous path, it never hurts to remember that the first step is always the most important.
Ah, yes, the reader will ask me, and we are talking about C3, what happened to the C1 and C2 pathways? The first, being too simple, is practically not used, as it has little to teach. The second, however, was disabled by the climbers themselves, tired of taking cans and rubbish thrown on their heads by less sporty — and more rude — visitors to the peak.
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