The owner of a Ouray guide service and the operators of the Ouray Via Ferrata are butting heads over new regulations that will boost the level of certifications commercial guides must possess if they want to work in the Uncompahgre Gorge climbing attraction this year.

With the help of Ouray city leaders, Basecamp Ouray owner Logan Tyler and the nonprofit Friends of the Ouray Via Ferrata appear to have reached a compromise that will delay the date by which guides must have attained those certifica...