Knucklehead
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not unusual to read bad news about off-roading:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-43142187
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-43142187
The problem is clive they just dont want 4x4s at all, anywhere. So they jump on anything that will help there agenda. Walkers want the trails to be there own. They seem to forget they broke the law en mass in the 1930s in the peak district...Judging by the number of “senior officers” of goodness knows what, that have pledged to “go and visit the damage”, it’s likely that the repairs will cost a fraction of the “senior officers’” visits.
GLASS has already offered to cough up, so what’s the big deal.
Environmental damage, and damage to fragile habitats, I dunno what and what’s that all about? Snowdonia has been there for millions of years and those “fragile habitats” have evolved to be the toughest, over the process of time.
Sorry, I can’t escape the notion that environmentalists wouldn’t know an “environment” if it crossed the street to introduce itself.
Admittedly, 4x4s should stay on the track and not go off piste, but the guys that did this damage did it unwittingly when a vehicle got stuck, they’ve apologized and have offered to pay. What more could they do?
The men/women in hats simply want to dictate and have an easy life shutting the mountain off to everyone, eventually.
I drive off road here and do my best not to cause damage, and stay on piste. However, where I have left my mark, within a couple of seasons, the “fragile environment” somehow magically healed itself.
It’s what it does, naturally, and has been doing for millions of years. What a bunch of nanny-state clowns.
Rant over... (maybe)
The problem is clive they just dont want 4x4s at all, anywhere. So they jump on anything that will help there agenda. Walkers want the trails to be there own. They seem to forget they broke the law en mass in the 1930s in the peak district...
im afraid its another by product of a overpopulated country with everyone fighting for a ever diminishing piece of the countryside...
Have to agree 100% on the horse 'problem' Clive. They really carve up soft terrain into deep divets where a bicycle or even a motorcycle could pass with very little damage. I don't like horses using roads either. I dropped a Fireblade many years ago on a tightish right hander in the Peak District. When I'd picked myself up and limped back to investigate there was a pile of flattened horse shit right on the apex.