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Originally Posted by CaptainPlume

And yet funding for national parks is reduced because the people getting access are too white & middle-class...

That story, when it broke, amazed me. The groups that had their funding cut were doing their utmost to attract anybody up the hills yet the simple fact that some social groups don't want to go walking up big hills was the feeble excuse used to spunk the money on someone's else beloved pet project

Originally Posted by Speedy

We've now taken to walking in the East Lancs and Yorks border areas. Less people and no rubbish at all. Lots of green laneing trial bike riders though, and for the most part they do take their litter home.

Have you been for a walk round the "Hole of Horcum" in North Yorkshire? its a pretty good trek round a glacial valley, its a good long walk if you go all the way round it and explore a bit. I went on a weekday when I was off work about 6 weeks ago, me and the dog had the entire place to ourselves, only saw one other walker in the entire walk! Didnt see any litter either

My brief spot of youth grouping one leader at the front m at the back any litter press ups for everyone by lunchtime the group had grasped the concept

Next day even embarrsed some real climbers into picking there rubbish up
Funny as fuck watching a load of chavs chant press ups at the hapless fools
It can be done but god its exhausting

Originally Posted by Speedy

Sadly more and more people are making it into the nicer parts of the Lake District where once they would have stopped at Windermere/Bowness/Ambleside as for many that IS the Lakes. Even Hardknott Pass, once the domain of people who could:

a. Read a map to find it and...
b. Had a vehicle capable of actually getting up it

Is now regularly jammed with elderly ford Ka drivers and teens in Corsas stuck on the ice in late spring on the 's' bends or idiots in camper vans who think the passing places are lay-bys from where they can admire the view (before getting stuck on the 's' bends as well).
We've now taken to walking in the East Lancs and Yorks border areas. Less people and no rubbish at all. Lots of green laneing trial bike riders though, and for the most part they do take their litter home.

Last time I was on the Hardknott I came across a quad biker 30 feet down a a gully with his mates looking mighty worried.

Whilst I was winching his quad back upto the road an irate Porsche driver was giving me the evil eye for making him stop then do a hill start. He didn't seem to bothered about the poor sod lying on the grass in fair bit of pain (being Cumbrian, he fixed his quad and rode himself off to casualty)

The quad bikers were local, the Porsche driver was a tourist.

Originally Posted by jagman

Last time I was on the Hardknott I came across a quad biker 30 feet down a a gully with his mates looking mighty worried.

Whilst I was winching his quad back upto the road an irate Porsche driver was giving me the evil eye for making him stop then do a hill start. He didn't seem to bothered about the poor sod lying on the grass in fair bit of pain (being Cumbrian, he fixed his quad and rode himself off to casualty)

The quad bikers were local, the Porsche driver was a tourist.

Us Cumbrians are like that, to dozy to know when to knock it on the head.

Originally Posted by Tricky1982

Roseberry Topping outside Redcar is like that as well, I went for a trek up there a few months back and it was covered in litter dropping chav families from middlesbrough out for the day in "wor countryside like". Its not the highest or most challenging climb, but its alright and the views are good from the top. It was amusing sat on the peak watching sweaty inappropriately dressed chavettes trying to get up it in heels and skirts

Roseberry Topping is that shape due to a collapsed mine working. Chav industrialist vandals.

B

ps Used to walk those hills as a lad. Sarnies came in brown paper bags then.