Milesy wrote:The sight I see on Ben Nevis in the summer is disgusting. It is great when people love the hills or grow to love them but not at the expense of the erosion and the litter. The vast majority of three peakers contribute nothing back to the environment they are using.
Hi Milesy
It is I, the man who is doing this awful challenge. I have another couple of questions for you. Are there plenty of parking spaces? It's just that all 4 of us are taking our 4x4s and we want to ensure that we can park somewhere safely. We may try and drive them as far up the hill as we can, would people mind that - it would certainly cut out a fair bit of that walking nonsense anyway, don't you think?
We have planned this walk really well now, our plan is to hide our litter under a rock so it doesn't weigh us down too much, every little helps, eh?
In order to combat boredom I think one of us is going to take an old style "ghetto blaster", that will wake the locals up - ha - hopefully people will realise we are just having a laugh - these country dwellers will probably think we are visitors from the future with our magical music box lol.
Of course, I am just being facetious here. I am well aware of how to look after the countryside, I am no great lover of the outdoors myself but as others have said, hopefully this can kickstart a real love of the hills for me, sorry if I ever get in your way but people have equal rights to the hills and countryside for the purposes of environmentally friendly enjoyment.
Thanks for the useful advice and hints we have been getting, I doubt we will manage the 24 hours but we want to try and break the 30!
Towards Higher Things.