Parkamoor wtaf

went down today.

Someone has picked out all the best rocky sections and sanitised the whole downhill.

who would do such a thing?

I’m pissed off to say the least.

Yeah trails are used by a variety of users. They wear down and become rough, difficult to walk on for humans and horses but great fun on a bike. So, every now few years they repair them to allow access to all.

OP. Which trail are you referring to?

The climb from Nibthwaite up to Parkamoor from the south or

The descent from Parkamoor east to Satterthwaite?

Kankuu the 4×4 johnnies did it four or five years ago. Crap innit.

I’m confused, I thought parkamoor was that semi sport where you throw yourself off  a concrete abomination whilst attempting a summersault without ending up in hospital. I’ll Google it

Was done years ago. Unless they have done it again in the last year?

If so I must now be similar to a multi-use path.

Parkamoor has an off-grid house half way up it – I think it’s an Airbnb or something now. The only way to it is to park at the bottom (High Nibthwaite) then the farmer / landowner takes you to the house in a 4×4 for your stay. So that track, from the bottom up to the house, is definitely in regular use plus the Kankku lot use it all the bloody time.

The rest of it, from the house up and over to Grizedale where it comes into the forest at Heald Brow should just be normal bridleway. A lot of that bit on the western edge of the forest was closed / blocked for a long time after one of the big storms and certainly most of it was singletrack, not accessible to any vehicle (which is part of the reason it was blocked for so long).

It’s the downhill to nibthwaite from low parkamoor.  It was done (spoiled) some time ago, but it’s been redone and further spoiled in the last month.

The trail is a dead end for motorised vehicles so hacking out bedrock it is pretty pointless in my view. Kankku have created the damage by letting inexperienced muppets pay to drive their 4x4s badly up the trail.  I ride it regularly and have never seen a horse have any difficulty.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooo.