Quote Originally Posted by Graham Breeze View Post

It may be the next time the FRA looks at the Safety Rules it will clarify this. The current rules have stood for decades without causing anyone any difficulty but that was, of course, BF (Before Forum).

The FRA Committee (made up of active fellrunners and RO) will not set the bar so high or specify equipment so explicitly that the real world of fellrunning ignores its position, which is why the rules have lasted
with relatively little alteration for 30 years.
As the Grump says we are now in a different age.. like it or not we have people entering the sport from a position of almost novices and are not serving the apprenticeship or being ignorant of general know how about the hills, such ambiguity and room in the rules for common sense will have been less of an issue 30-20 even 10 years ago. I think the FRA has to think about if things need changing due to the changing demographics of the sport...