Request from the BBC

snip

Quoted message said:

PM, the BBC R4 news programme, is looking for someone who
has had navigational difficulties on Ben Nevis

snip

Ha! I've had navigational difficulties just about everywhere
I ever walked
:-)

simon

simplesimon <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

snip

Quoted message said:

PM, the BBC R4 news programme, is looking for someone who
has had navigational difficulties on Ben Nevis

snip

Ha! I've had navigational difficulties just about
everywhere I ever walked
:-)

simon

So have I, except for once when I got lost.
--
Gordon

In message <[email hidden]>,
Philip Powell <[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

I've had a request from the BBC that I'm passing on here.

PM, the BBC R4 news programme, is looking for someone who
has had navigational difficulties on Ben Nevis and is
prepared to be interviewed. They are doing a piece on the
proposed way marking on the Ben in about a weeks time.

If anyone fits the category, or you know someone who does,
and are prepared to be interviewed [on tape, not live]
would you please email the reporter, Huw Williams direct on

"][email hidden]

They do not want anecdotal stories of the idiots you saw
setting off but a first hand account.

Do they want to interview someone who objects to the very
idea of waymarking - ye gods.

Can't people just buy a copy of Trail magazine and take a
compass bearing?
--
Martin Richardson
239/284 Munros - 15% to go 34/34 'Furths' & 439/439 Nuttalls
- 0% to go
240/89 Donalds - 53% to go 0/? Himalayans - 100% to go
241/1552 Marilyns - 72% to go

Martin Richardson <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

In message <[email hidden]>,
Philip Powell <[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

I've had a request from the BBC that I'm passing on here.

PM, the BBC R4 news programme, is looking for someone who
has had navigational difficulties on Ben Nevis and is
prepared to be interviewed. They are doing a piece on the
proposed way marking on the Ben in about a weeks time.

If anyone fits the category, or you know someone who
does, and are prepared to be interviewed [on tape, not
live] would you please email the reporter, Huw Williams
direct on

"][email hidden]

They do not want anecdotal stories of the idiots you saw
setting off but a first hand account.

Do they want to interview someone who objects to the very
idea of waymarking - ye gods.

Can't people just buy a copy of Trail magazine and take a
compass bearing?

Your a closet Darwinian, aren't you?
--
Gordon

In message <[email hidden]>, RJ Webb
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

They want to cairn the bugger.....

And if its OK to cairn the Ben.. its OK to cairn everywhere
else. Highlands going to end up as a degraded dump of
motorways and litter filled cairns just like North
Wales/Lakes.

With hindsight it was a shame that the one simple pole
went.... Now we are faced with something worse. And Trail
Wa*ker did not help!

Well we know what we can do with cairns don't we. Sounds
like an urw expedition is in the making here.

--
Martin Richardson
239/284 Munros - 15% to go 34/34 'Furths' & 439/439 Nuttalls
- 0% to go
240/89 Donalds - 53% to go 0/? Himalayans - 100% to go
241/1552 Marilyns - 72% to go

In message <[email hidden]>, Chris Malcolm
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

Martin Richardson said:

In message <[email hidden]>,
Philip Powell <[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

I've had a request from the BBC that I'm passing on here.

PM, the BBC R4 news programme, is looking for someone who
has had navigational difficulties on Ben Nevis and is
prepared to be interviewed. They are doing a piece on the
proposed way marking on the Ben in about a weeks time.

If anyone fits the category, or you know someone who
does, and are prepared to be interviewed [on tape, not
live] would you please email the reporter, Huw Williams
direct on

"][email hidden]

They do not want anecdotal stories of the idiots you saw
setting off but a first hand account.

Quoted message said:

Do they want to interview someone who objects to the very
idea of waymarking - ye gods.

Quoted message said:

Can't people just buy a copy of Trail magazine and take a
compass bearing?

:-)

For the benefit of those newcomers who aren't aware of
the joke:

"MAGAZINE BLUNDER DIRECTS WALKERS OVER CLIFF

{Snip}

Quoted message said:

Trail magazine constantly points out to its readers the
dangers of relying on a single source of navigational
information,

Which is precisely why waymarking would be potentially
dangerous.

Never mind that it may persuade inexperienced people to
tackle the hill in poor weather - or lull them into thinking
that the mountain navigation lark is easy - so let's have a
go at Ben MacDui next.

--
Martin Richardson
239/284 Munros - 15% to go 34/34 'Furths' & 439/439 Nuttalls
- 0% to go
240/89 Donalds - 53% to go 0/? Himalayans - 100% to go
241/1552 Marilyns - 72% to go

In message <[email hidden]>, RJ Webb
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

They want to cairn the bugger.....

And if its OK to cairn the Ben.. its OK to cairn everywhere
else. Highlands going to end up as a degraded dump of
motorways and litter filled cairns just like North
Wales/Lakes.

Like Schiehallion as well.

--
Martin Richardson
239/284 Munros - 15% to go 34/34 'Furths' & 439/439 Nuttalls
- 0% to go
240/89 Donalds - 53% to go 0/? Himalayans - 100% to go
241/1552 Marilyns - 72% to go

Luck you found the link then ;-)

Quoted message said:

Ha! I've had navigational difficulties just about
everywhere I ever walked
:-)

simon

"Martin Richardson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
"]news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

In message <[email hidden]>,
Philip Powell <[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

I've had a request from the BBC that I'm passing on here.

PM, the BBC R4 news programme, is looking for someone who
has had navigational difficulties on Ben Nevis and is
prepared to be interviewed. They are doing a piece on the
proposed way marking on the Ben in about a weeks time.

If anyone fits the category, or you know someone who
does, and are prepared to be interviewed [on tape, not
live] would you please email the reporter, Huw Williams
direct on

"][email hidden]

They do not want anecdotal stories of the idiots you saw
setting off but a first hand account.

Do they want to interview someone who objects to the very
idea of waymarking - ye gods.

Can't people just buy a copy of Trail magazine and take a
compass bearing?

My info is that the powers that be are going to erect a
handrail from the summit down to the YHA in the near future;-
)

Martin Richardson said:

In message <[email hidden]>,
Philip Powell <[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

I've had a request from the BBC that I'm passing on here.

PM, the BBC R4 news programme, is looking for someone who
has had navigational difficulties on Ben Nevis and is
prepared to be interviewed. They are doing a piece on the
proposed way marking on the Ben in about a weeks time.

If anyone fits the category, or you know someone who
does, and are prepared to be interviewed [on tape, not
live] would you please email the reporter, Huw Williams
direct on

"][email hidden]

They do not want anecdotal stories of the idiots you saw
setting off but a first hand account.

Quoted message said:

Do they want to interview someone who objects to the very
idea of waymarking - ye gods.

Quoted message said:

Can't people just buy a copy of Trail magazine and take a
compass bearing?

:-)

For the benefit of those newcomers who aren't aware of the
joke:

"MAGAZINE BLUNDER DIRECTS WALKERS OVER CLIFF

"Britain's biggest-selling hillwalking magazine has
apologised after the latest issue contained a route that
would have led climbers off the edge of a cliff.

"The February edition of Trail gave advice to walkers caught
in foul weather and poor visibility on how to get off
Britain's tallest peak safely.

"If readers had followed the magazine's directions they
would have plunged from Ben Nevis' north face, which has
claimed a number of lives."

ananova.comsm 858065.htmlOpen ↗

This is not the first time Trail magazine has made such an
error, nor indeed is it the first time they have made
exactly that particular error.

Of course, as the editor pointed out, Trail magazine
constantly points out to its readers the dangers of relying
on a single source of navigational information, so of course
nobody following their instructions would have been foolish
enough to rely on their instructions, so no problem.

--
Chris Malcolm [email hidden] +44 (0)131 651 3445 DoD #205
IPAB, Informatics, JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK
["]http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/]

They want to cairn the bugger.....

And if its OK to cairn the Ben.. its OK to cairn everywhere
else. Highlands going to end up as a degraded dump of
motorways and litter filled cairns just like North
Wales/Lakes.

With hindsight it was a shame that the one simple pole
went.... Now we are faced with something worse. And Trail
Wa*ker did not help!

Richard Webb

On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 08:46:24 GMT, [email hidden] (RJ

Webb) said:

They want to cairn the bugger.....

And if its OK to cairn the Ben.. its OK to cairn everywhere
else. Highlands going to end up as a degraded dump of
motorways and litter filled cairns just like North
Wales/Lakes.

Though the result would be a net loss of cairns since
presumably they'd have to remove most of the ones that are
already there but lead in other directions. Which will make
Martin's job much easier ;-)

"Martin Richardson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
"]news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

In message <[email hidden]>, RJ Webb
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

They want to cairn the bugger.....

And if its OK to cairn the Ben.. its OK to cairn
everywhere else. Highlands going to end up as a degraded
dump of motorways and litter filled cairns just like
North Wales/Lakes.

With hindsight it was a shame that the one simple pole
went.... Now we are faced with something worse. And Trail
Wa*ker did not help!

Well we know what we can do with cairns don't we. Sounds
like an urw expedition is in the making here.

What for? Probably 50% of urk posters need 'em :-0

--
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