Wishful thinking: I hardly expect the anti-Christian/anti-religious forces lurking in Boise to “leave it alone”. They will tear it down just as soon as their population in Boise is high enough to give them the power to do so. There used to be crosses all across America until the anti-Christian lawyers and spineless politicians knocked them down. From the appearance of our cross, I suspect the Jaycees might need donations to fix it up a bit and perhaps start a legal defense fund too.

As to your garbage can point, Guardian, there are already several cans up there. They get well used. More frequent empty action is what is needed.

No railing.

Sounds good that Rotary is adopting the location.

I’ve been driving / hiking / motorcycling / bicycling to Table Rock for my entire life… starting back before spray paint! haha It’s disappointing that they gate it up at night, but I s’pose that’s a price you pay when you live in a city that is also occupied by vandals and Neanderthals. (I’d recommend a video camera or two right off the bat, along with prominent signage about video surveillance.)

One thing amused me on the Kickstarter page… an “exercise area at the top” as a potential future project. Ha! Is this for the people who who just ran, walked, or biked up the hill? I’ve always thought Mount Everest would be better, if they flattened it a little up at the top, so people could do jumping jacks up there.

As much as many resent having that ancient Roman instrument of torture lofted above our city, I agree that it’s a dead issue: The Jaycees — in apparent contravention of their non-sectarian charter — pulled a fast one years ago, which has withstood legal challenge.

Instead of leaving a clean slate for more inartful grafitti, it’d be cool to turn that bench into an art/history project, with a mural on the back, employing the talents of some of our true grafitti artists — maybe a juried competition for the project, funded by donations.