Aboriginal Significance
The mountain remains a place of cultural and traditional significance to the Bundjalung people and is the site of particular ceremonies and initiation rites. The Bundjalung observe cultural and traditional restrictions forbidding the uninitiated from climbing the mountain, and, as such, generally ask that others also do not attempt to climb the mountain. However there are several websites that encourage climbers to hike the Mt. Warning/Wollumbin Trail up the mountain, so it is likely the government National Parks and Wildlife Service is not inclined to discourage it.
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