Management Way of Climbing Area with Collaboration between Climbers and Local Residents

Abstract

Recently, the number of climbers has been increased. Especially, “Bouldering” that is one of the style of climbing is rising in popularity. However, complications between local residents and climbers are occurring at a lot of bouldering area because there is not a cooperation with them. On the other hand, at Mt. KASAGI Climbing Area in ENA city, Gifu Prefecture, local residents utilize bouldering for regional promotion positively. Accordingly, a purpose of this study is to clarify the management way of climbing area with collaboration between climbers and local residents at Mt. KASAGI climbing area. Through this study, it is thought that can get the knowledge of the effective management method from regional promotion. As a result, it clarified that the cooperation of climbers and local residents was important, especially clarification of the division of the roles was very important. For example, the climber took the excavation of the climbing route and local residents took the environmental maintenance of the area in Mt. KASAGI Climbing Area.