Burn them!!!

I had a great weekend teaching Navigation Skills at Plas Y brenin, including an evening out night naving on the Saturday. Unfortunately the weather was too good to make the navigation hard, as we had miles and miles of visibility. Anyway it was on my way back from the centre at 9.30 saturday night that I saw not one group but two group of campers having campfires in the Pass.

Firstly I have to say the idea of dossing in the boulders isn’t new, but is mostly done by people trying to save a matter a pounds, the equivalent of two beers in most places for the want of not paying the local farmer to use his field. I think some of these ‘campers’ believe they are wild camping, which I have to say in my book means that you are out of sight of the main road, rather than pissing distance from it.

I usually turn a blind eye to campers down the pass, however the bonfires enraged me. They will ruin it for the people who are responsible, like the family who simply abandoned there tent last year. These idiots obviously think it is acceptable to burn the delicate soils within the National Park. My only revenge was to drive pass on my way to work and hammer on my horn to give these idiots an early wake up call. Although I did see the local woman walking up to charge them, and no doubt give them a bollocking, which would probably be more polite and more memorable than mine.

Anyway, maybe next time we should just burn their tents down, preferably without them in. Leaving a note about why I did it. An expensive lesson for them I know, but some people need some impact counselling on these things.

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