I don't see how it doesn't engage, inasmuch as it does beg a question about the changing makeup of who is polevaulting into the valley. I say that as someone w

I don't see how it doesn't engage, inasmuch as it does beg a question about the changing makeup of who is polevaulting into the valley. I say that as someone who is a native and has indeed watched some striking changes in the last 5 years (compared to the quarter century preceding it). While I don't have the same ire that the previous commenter does, I don't think his rhetoric lacks merit in terms of questioning what has been happening (either as a progression of or a departure from, the roots of SV)