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crazymac:
I met a group of ramblers today in a carpark for the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park. There was a large discussion going on which I heard snippets of including things like "well who do we tell?" and "I think its disgusting". I intervened and asked if I could help? as I knew the national park warden for the area! So they agreed and explained their dilema to me (I was expecting severe erosion, or stile down or some such thing)

What I got instead was "its disgusting, there we were walking along the coast path, only to find that someone has planted POTATOES on national park land!!"

I asked them, "do you mean on the side of the coast path? or was there a fence inbetween making the planting inside a field?"

They replied that it was inside a field, but it was disgusting that someone would take the liberty of planting on national park land!!

I explained to them, that the national park is in name only really! and apart from some specific sites and the coast path the land is mainly owned by farmers and they can plant what they like as its their land!! These idiots would not agree that this was the case, and have resolved to write to the head of the national park to notify him of this "illegal" planting!!

Complete and utter T055er5!

pux:
Crazymac i don't know how you kept a straight face i would have been laughing my head off at there statements :lol: :lol: :lol:

Ja1983:
well if we arent allowed to use aggressive knobbly tyres, they shouldnt be allowed to used aggressive knobbly boots.... send them round in slippers and the paths should last longer....


...dont walk on my road, and i wont drive on your path!

Defender:

--- Quote ---Helicopter used for mountain path
 
A helicopter is to lift more than 700 tons of stone onto mountains in Snowdonia as part of a project to repair eroding upland paths.
Five teams of path workers will spend a fortnight laying the airlifted stone into place on four sites, Snowdon, Cadair Idris, Y Garn and Tryfan Bach.
The stone is brought in by helicopter so as not to disturb stone near paths, which might host delicate plants.
Around 350,000 people visit Snowdon, Wales' highest mountain, each year.
Both Snowdonia National Park Authority and the National Trust have path teams at work.
'Durable paths'
Alan Hughes, of the Snowdonia Upland Path Partnership said: "The trick is for the finished path to blend into its surrounding environment, be comfortable to walk on and for it to appear as if nothing has been done.
"A variety of methods are used to carry out the work of rectifying the damage - a fully trained path worker can build some two metres of path a day.
"Generally the teams use as local as possible stone to construct durable paths, using a technique known as 'stone-pitching,' using some one ton of stone for every 1.5m of path built."
The National Trust said it cost between £50 and £100 to construct each metre of footpath and it needed to raise £80,000 per year to fund its footpath team.
--- End quote ---

That's 700 tons of stone.
£50 to £100 per metre to repair a footpath.
Not to mention the carbon footprint of the Helicopter. :x

I can find plenty of other examples of damage by booted foot.      

pux:
now im not defending the ramblers or owt, but the helicopters used are TA Gazelles from 666Sqn Army Air Corps, they help out the national park authorities and they use it to train their  pilots  and ground crew in using under slung loads under difficult condition's i.e foggy windy and rainy (god bless wales :lol:)  :lol: so in all essence they are not being payed for by the national park. :D

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