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Yup - and before that was done it was a wide eroded scar
Same with Skiddaw, back of Blencathra...it's a numbers game. The Boredale descent is/was great, but when the public blindly obey the commands of Julia Bradbury and [insert C-list celeb of choice], what else can you (and the people repairing the paths) do? There's a bunch of routes I've accepted I'll never do again outside of dawn or dusk, if then. I fit myself into the cracks, seeking the flow and the solitude where I think I might find it. Which isn't the Lakes...
Ben Rinnes was another that had a 20m wide scar caused by walkers, (mtb's were banned until the land reform act). Thankfully the stone pitching is only in very short sections.
Signed. Good work OP
Signed.
Looks like I might have to buy some boingy things now. Tis a challenging descent and seem to change every 6 months because of erosion we are probably all guilty of slamming the anchors on decent like this !! No one seems to complain about Dollywagon 🙂
@postierich - that's cos most folk carry up it on their way to Sticks 🙂
I guess I don't complain about it, because I've never known any different, although someone was telling me about what it used to be like!
Anyway, there's been an update from the starter of the petition. You might want to check it out here: Update
After reading this last week we completely forgot about it and tried to get down it on Sat.
Currently both the FP and BW are covered in huge bags full on stone almost all the way down both trails.
I'm in agreement that the sheer scale of works on both trails is well over the top and not in keeping with the natural trails around the area.
The new water bars on the BW that have been put in are massive also.
After reading the update it appears that fix the fells consultation on this is similier to DCC's on trails in the peak.
TBH it's mainly the positioning and angling of the waterbars that annoys me. Some absolute beauties of wheelcatchers on some stretches I've ridden (unskilfully) this year.
Martin that was exactly the comments of all the other riders also.
They are mostly in positions at the bottum of steep angled turns making it difficult to raise the front wheel.