So funny reading this just now, 4 years later its still a recurring issue.
Met this guy today while attempting to bag Turin Hill from the north. This is one of those Sub-2000s they don't want anyone near and so hinder any attempt with electric fencing, crazy stalker cows and zero parking to speak of. Its best to get it climbed and then be happy you never have to return to it and put up with the BS, which is a disappointment because it is a nice hill
My encounter with the infamous GOML Farmer on Turin hill.
Half way back down and heading through fences a bald man with a rather uncompromising face appeared, wading through the morass on his quid bike, he stopped in front of me. I made no attempt to not be seen (why should I? My intentions where perfectly innocent) and said cheerfully, "hello, sir!", "Can I help you?" he said rather scornfully and I could infer annoyance but I couldn't have cared less. He seemed rather confused as to how I got there and where I intended to go, he said he was worried about the "beasts" trampling me and I explained that I was nowhere near the beasts and that he should not worry. I get the impression he see's the whole hill bagger's v farmers, situation, as a test of wills rather than compromising and providing a non-intrusive path up the hill for daft baggers like myself who otherwise would have no business being there, after all I'm not interested in the farm in the slightest I just want to get the hill bagged and get out the farmers way.
Oh well... I really do Feel sorry for Sub-2000 baggers, they put up with so much BS just to get these wee hill's climbed sometimes, but no matter what, we get them done.
Great report, very funny.