Very interesting program - better than 95% of what is normally on.
Very interesting program - better than 95% of what is normally on.
3/4 of the way through. Don't spoil the ending. Very good so far.
KK
Good show. I'd have voted "for" the application. Looking at the panel, I wasn't surprised by their decision though.
KK
Originally Posted by Keswick_Krumble
Really interesting program, I'm with you there KK, a "for" for me too, a bit sad towards the end, looked like Mark lived his life to the full, guess you can ask no more than that.
Andy
I would have said "no" because of the extra traffic on those narrow/steep roads, not the zip-wire itself.
Maybe they could have built a zip wire to the zip wire, alleviating the traffic problem?
I've not seen the programme yet, I'll try and watch it tomorrow but was there a plan to:
a) Get the people to the top of the Pike?
b) Get the zip wire trollies to the top of the pike?
I've worked on zips before and the only way to actually make money is to keep a high usage rate up
I've just come back from Canada and went on a superb zip-wire down Whistler mountain. This was a more hidden location due to the the trees but was still visible and didn't detract from the landscape (a small wire is hard to spot). Thoughout the journey (5 zip wires in all) we were told about the environment and what the zip-wire firm do to protect it. Maybe this was an angle that the scheme in the Lakes missed out on? In Whistler the firm actually gifted some of their profit back into environmental projects. More details here http://www.ziptrek.com/whistler-canada/sustainability
Agree with many - a riveting watch was the programme.
It's classical conservation public sector - refuse it all, the likes of English Nature justifying their own future by putting the blinkers on and prosecuting.The LDNP committee - again classical, repeated all over the country, as blinkered and narrow minded as anything - they'll be ok though with there £10k plus expenses bill each year. Get rid of them all and centralise the whole system - NPA's, FC, EA, CCW, EN, etc.etc.........
Refreshingly Antur Stiniog in Blaenau Ffestiniog recently had their application for world class downhill mountain bike tracks approved by Gwynedd council - after multiple years of applying - I doubt whether the humbugs at the Snowdonia NPA would have followed suit.
Regards the programme - is that Richard Pearce (Friends of Lake District) a fell runner - sure I've seen him around??
As a local the whole issue is tough, but I like to keep things simple. Mountains should be tackled up or down under your own steam - if you can't do it, dont' go there.
The 'honey pots' of Grasmere etc show what's really on the cards when you make somehwere like the Lake District 'user friendly'. The infrastructure can't handle for any further increase in activity. I appreciate tourism brings a lot of much needed employment to this area but something that sticks in my throat a little is the number of tourist businesses run and owned by 'outsiders' who have had the capital to set up here in the first place by selling up and moving from somehwere much more expensive and much less lovely.
Mark Weir was his own man - fine. Live along the lines he did and accept the risks that go with it. We all make our own choices. I dont' think this has anything to do with the Zip wire issue. I disagreed with it when he was alive (and flying over my house everyday in his helicopter) and his death has nothing to do with the question at hand.
WHile I'm on the subject too, that Julia Bradbury bird should be hung, drawn and quartered for what she's done to the hills in the last few years.
There. Better now.
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