Storm Darragh Forecast: Many Trails Closed Tomorrow

As Storm Darragh hits tomorrow, Sat 7th Dec, there are Red wind warnings in place for most of coastal Wales, and Amber or Yellow wind warnings in plac …

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Storm Darragh Forecast: Many Trails Closed Tomorrow

Coastal all the way round Somerset, Devon and Cornwall too, a lot more than just Wales.

My phone just sounded the alert alarm to me of the Red wind warning. Hatches are battened down. We lost the garage roof in storm Eunice.

Already had a £ affect on us at work. One of the busiest weekends for Christmas shows/markets and they’ve all been cancelled. A lot of potential lost earnings.

I was supposed to be heading along tht Hope Valley line tomorrow with some mates. I think we might be staying in Manchester now, but trying to avoid the Christmas market.

Genuine question – possibly related to differing land access laws – but are trails really closed?

I was supposed to be heading along tht Hope Valley line tomorrow with some mates.

Yeah, Northern have a general warning of disruption and a “do not travel unless it’s urgent” warning.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17qPCezmyT/

That’s supposed to be a picture but it ain’t working:-/

Genuine question – possibly related to differing land access laws – but are trails really closed?

The forestry England ones vary – advise that you postpone, car parks closed, or just closed.

They have rights of way through them, I doubt they will have applied for suspension orders.

But “closed” gets the message across to joe public, and FE isn’t going to get into trouble for making a false statement on Facebook.

Genuine question – possibly related to differing land access laws – but are trails really closed?

Unlikely that anyone has gone to the effort of actually gating off every trail in the woods but equally I can imagine that sympathy for any MTBer impaled by a falling tree is probably going to be in fairly short supply…

Pearce uplift at Hopton got cancelled.

Am gutted,  but better than than squashed by a tree

Yeah, Northern have a general warning of disruption and a “do not travel unless it’s urgent” warning.

Cheers  @crazy-legs, we decided to abandon any plans at about 6:30 this morning.

Judging by the winds blowing off the fields onto the back of my house I think stopping inside today is a very sensible move.