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Seven climbers temporarily rigged a trans pride flag on L Capiton, the Yosemite Superintendent announced a new ban on the flag. The restriction applies within the forest areas or potential forest areas inside the national park. Specified forest More than 94% of the total acre of Yosemite including L -cap contains.
Released as an update for Yosemite superintendent collectionWhich lists permits requirements, bandages, restrictions and more guidelines within the park, the new flag rest suggests that no person or group can “hang or stick for any natural or cultural feature, or to cover any natural or cultural feature, any banner, flag, or 15 square feet (such as five feet to five feet).
,[Flags have] A very effective form of protest proved, “says the founder and president of Kane Yagar, Yosemite climbing associationHowever, Jeer admitted that he was worried that this form of protest and new ban could be a erosion of hard-life positive relations between the National Park Services and the Climbing Community-a relationship that has been working on improvement for three decades. “I worry about local law enforcement that it has been implemented and we have to lose what we have achieved,” they say. “We have a really good relationship and I hate to look backwards.”
Why -And when -yocemite banned the flag and beyond the flag
The compilation requires the new flag rule “needs to preserve the values of the character of the forest according to the Jungle Act”. It also refers to the safety of both natural and cultural resources as a basis for visitors experience, public safety, and new restrictions.
Miranda Okale, a professional mountaineer who hanged a banner from L Cap in June 2024, says, “It is difficult to believe that it will actually be more than any safety issues that we see in Yosemite every day,”, a professional mountaineer, who hung a banner from L -cap in June 2024, reading “Stop the Hasa Samhar” in the colors of the Philistini flag.
Okle also wondered whether the political nature of recent performances on the L -cap had stopped the ban rather than displaying itself. He said that other banners have been hung on the L -cap in the past, including one, which is read, “I love you, mom” and another climate change. “We didn’t see a ban after that,” says Okle. “I wonder if those flags or banners were less controversial, then there would be only one ban, as he said ‘Go Rangers!’ Or ‘Go America.’ ,
The updated version of the compilation with the flag ban is dated on May 20, 2025, although the signature of the park’s acting superintendent Raymond McPaden is dated on 21 May 2025. While there is speculation about the performance of the Trans pride flag on 20 May. Performing an inverted American flag In February – it was not yet declared.
We arrived at the office of Yosemite Superintendent to comment on this story, but I did not get any response. This is not completely clear when McPaden assumed the position of Yosemite’s acting superintendent, but his name and position appeared on 22 May. Press release About the rush of Memorial Day. Superintendent for a long time, ciecly Muldoon, Retired in February 2025,
Flags and hints on L -cap: a recent history
Over the years, the L -cap flag has become a Satyan billboard for activism through temporary rigging of flags. Starting with the most recent flag to fly on 3,000 feet high monolith, here is a small history of some more major displays.
Trans pride flag above heart
date: May 20, 2025
flag: Trans pride flag (66’X35 ‘)
Place: Above the heart, about one -third of L -cap
Riggers: A team of seven trans mountaineers and colleagues, including Patty Gonia and SJ Josalin
Performance Length: about 2 hours
Objective: Transfit climbers and individuals to climb and welcome outside
Reading Our coverage Trans pride flag and exclusive interview with Josalin.
Flag us next to Horsetail Falls
date: 22 February, 2025
flag: Upside-Down American Flag (30’X50 ‘)
Place: Headwall between Amount (C3) and Horsetail Falls (aka Firefall)
Riggers: A crew of seven current and former National Park Services Employees, including the former former LocSmith of Yosemite, Nat Vince
Performance Length: a couple of hours
Objective: Current administration to broadcast a crisis symbol about the threat of public land in the United States under the current administration
Since the climbers rigged this inverted flag, others followed the suit. The activities have hung upside down in Joshua Tree National Park and Smith Rock State Park as signs of crisis. Reading Full story On the opposite American flag and yosemite on the effects of Dogi cut.
“Stop massacre” banner from L -cap tower
date: June 17, 2024
Banner: A banner reading “stop the massacre” in red, green and black, color of Palestinian flag (25’X10 ‘)
Place: Half the way noseJust above L -cap tower
Riggers: Four climbers of climbers of the organization along with Palestine, including Pro Mountaineer Miranda Okale, who are half Palestinians
Performance Length: 16 to 17 hours
Objective: Urge
Read full story About the “Close the massacre” banner on the L -cap.
In view of flag ban
Compandium notices that if the mountaineer first receives permits, flags or banners can be displayed. However, the Superintendent Office has not specified the process to obtain such permits.
The second question is whether the climbers will follow the new guidelines. “Mountaineers are very stubborn,” Yagar says. “In the past, when you told a climber that you could not do anything, they doubled.”
Another remaining unknown is whether other national parks can follow and ban suits on large flags and banners.
In compilation below is the complete text of the coupled section about the flag restriction:
In addition to the specified forest and potential forest of the park it is prohibited for any natural or cultural feature for any person or group to paste or otherwise, or any natural or cultural feature, any banner, to cover the flag, or a series or combinations, or combinations, or a total, or a total, or total, or a total, or combinations for more than fifteen square feet (eg, 5 feet).
This restriction is necessary to preserve the values of the forest character, according to the Jungle Act, provides for an unaffected visitor experience, protecting natural and cultural resources in additional parts of the park’s specified forest and potential forests. This restriction is also necessary to maintain public safety, as it restricts items that prevent objects that can endanger and interfere with the permissible or acceptable unpublished climbing activity. The maps showing the park of the park and the addition of the potential forest are available on the website of the park and the superintendent office.
This is a developing story that will be updated as new information is available.
