Crikey – i take on board your comments and agree to a degree, BUT the point of living in the peak is that it is a great place. What is the point in travelling (by car when diesel etc is expensive) to discover new trails when there are great ones that some prick has decided can only be walked upon?
If a footpath is either not busy, wide enough, good then rid eit. Its not up there with rape, buggery, and murder as a crime in reality is it.