The Forestry Commission are currently working on a new trail network local to me. However, the scope of the job seems to involve ripping out every feature (trees included!) and replacing it with an 8ft wide smooth gravel path. I can understand the need for a network of family friendly routes, but the work is now extending to the more technical sections (I’m talking about the trails used at HtN last weekend, specifically the down hill after the left turn at the top of the long climb).
Is anybody else experiencing this?
Can anything be done about it?
At this rate the whole valley will be criss-crossed with family grade trails that are too remote and lack the required facilities for kids and are too dull for the adults.
Destruction in the name of progress.
