Quote Originally Posted by wharfeego View Post
I think I've read that quote properly? Quite an unbelievable statement and far from the attitude I would have imagined most fell runners would aspire to.
I'm sure you're right wharfeego, I'd think most fell runners are pretty sympathetic to countryside issues. But personally I struggle a bit round my local neck of the woods to work out the difference between 'preservation of habitats for ground nesting birds', and management of grouse estates in order to shoot a particular type of ground nesting bird. I don't see the latter as being a good reason to exclude people from access to areas, it's just the interest of one group of people against the interests of another. But I can't help but think that some of the estates use the 'preservation of natural habitats' line as a righteous-sounding excuse to police their land, whereas really all they are bothered about is the grouse population. I'll freely admit it's something I don't know a great deal about though, and as this might not be an issue on Rivington/Winter Hill I am perhaps wandering way off topic...