Hueco Climbing History Timeline

Thanks for visiting our website! Non-English translations of Huecotanks.com are now available: Spanish, French, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, French, German and Portuguese. We also have a copy of the Visitor Info in German.

If you are planning a climbing trip to Hueco, check out the Hueco Info and TPWD sections.

Opinions, politics, fiction, history, essays and various ranting can be found in the Spray section, written to appeal to freedom-loving, authority-questioning climbers with a taste for absurdity. Even if you have figured out how to work the present system and don't agree with our concerns about overly restrictive regulations, you might find something there to interest you.

Our position, which is shared by many other interested groups such as The Access Fund and The Central Texas Mountaineers, is that Hueco can protected and preserved without violating the rights of legitimate, responsible users. Preservation does not require or justify punishing the innocent or trampling on individual rights!

Recommended changes include: * Extending the volunteer guide system to encompass "Trustees" * Increasing the unreasonably low limits on North Mountain visitors from 70 to ~ 200 (along with a corresponding increase in limits for the guided-only zones) * Establishing working committees that include climbers and hikers * Allowing volunteer guides to climb with (not just guard) their group * Adding dirt to build up eroded zones at popular areas * Reinstating the bolting review committee to allow new routes to be established and existing bolts replaced as needed.

If you agree that change is needed please write responsible, reasoned letters to these politicians and bureaucrats. Even though the long-term prospects for climbing access at Hueco look grim, if we do nothing, it is inevitable that Hueco will close.