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Access Palisades Interstate Park
Injury Comparison
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121372045/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
Overall, 4.2 injuries per 1000
climbing hours were reported, overuse injuries
accounting for 93% of all injuries. Inflammatory
tissue damages to fingers and wrists were the most
common injury types. The multivariate analysis
showed that overweight and practicing bouldering
generally implied an increased primary injury risk,
while there was a higher re-injury risk among male
climbers and a lower risk among the older climbers.
To
provide a reference point, bicycling has 6 injuries
per 1000 hours or is 143% more likely to result in
injury.
Bicycling is an approved use at
Palisades Interstate Park.
Recreation and Tourism Financial Impact
The Outdoor Recreation Coalition of
America (ORCA) reported that 4.1% of
Americans participated in some form of
climbing in 2001.
By using those participation rates as a
basis, then 4.1% of 11 million, the
population estimate of NY City and
Northeastern New Jersey, we find that there
are more than 450,000 potential users of the
Palisades Interstate Park's natural and most
prominent resource, the cliffs, for
recreational climbing purposes.
The New Jersey Department of Tourism has
devoted much effort to quantifying the
amount of money spent per day by visitors
and found that each person spent $107 per
day in 2008. If Palisades Interstate Park
were to become a climbing resource for only
1/3 of the potential local users on a once a
year basis, without including the out of
state tourists it would attract, then the
NY/NJ Metropolitan Area could see an
increase in tourism revenues in the amount
of $16,050,000.00 (Sixteen Million $$ +).
According to
the Sporting Goods Manufacturers
Association's (SGMA) analysis of the
Superstudy of Sports Participation for the
2005 calendar year, Active Lifestyle Sports remain a
hot commodity for the American public.
Most
Popular Active Lifestyle Sports in the USA
2005
(U.S. population; 6 years of age or
older)
Inline skating: 16,490,000
Skateboarding: 11,382,000
Paintball: 10,357,000
Artificial Wall Climbing: 8,869,000
Snowboarding: 7,304,000
Mountain Biking: 6,466,000
Trail
Running: 6,167,000
Wakeboarding: 2,697,000
BMX
Bicycling: 2,480,000
Mountain/Rock Climbing: 2,299,000
Roller
Hockey: 2,094,000
Boardsailing/Windsurfing: 535,000
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Artificial
Wall Climbing: 8,869,000
Mountain/Rock Climbing: 2,299,000
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total
11,168,000 participants would be just behind
Skateboarding and # 3 on the list
A Few Universities, Colleges,
Departments of Education that include Rock Climbing Classes or Clubs:
Princeton
University |
Harvard University |
Yale
University |
The College of New Jersey |
University of California UCSB |
Cornell
University |
Rutgers
University |
Johns
Hopkins
University |
University of Vermont |
Stella
Maris College |
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Pembrokeshire College |
Geneva
College |
Calvin
College |
Gordon
College |
Craven
College |
| Santa
Fe Community College |
Lees
McRae College |
Writtle
College |
Vanier
College |
Champlain College |
Mount
Royal
College |
University of Washington |
University of Michigan |
Texas
A&M University |
University of Richmond |
Casper
College |
Reed
College |
Quinnipiac University |
Stevens Institute of Technology |
Ramapo
College |
and the list goes on, and on, and on!
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