Quote Originally Posted by Knightrunner View Post
Anyone who's been on top of Pen Y Ghent recently will agree, they've dealt with the peat bog path by installing a pavement, I'm not exaggerating. Where does the wisdom and advice come from on this, let alone the authority to change so greatly a landscape of which we are custodians?
Peat bogs are a special case. Erosion causes new water channels which carries acidic and brown tinted water into the reservoirs, which then has to be treated. New channels also drain the bog and decrease biodiversity, there's no real alternative really other than to close the footpath.