I was sitting in the dentist, and I picked up an Irish hillwalking mag... and there was an article on noise pollution.
The writer.... a hillwalker, was having a rant about noise disturbing him when he was walking, and his problem was with locals using lawnmowers, and their kids in their gardens riding noisy quads..... He wanted peace and tranquility.....
Feckin cheek..... bad enough that they think they own the mountains, now they want me to use a push mower, and gag my children.
He also complained about helicopters, yet he'd be the first to call one if he twists an ankle. Who else does the coastguard have to rescue up here? Sheep?
I thought it was a joke, but no......
This one was from a horse magaine, lent to me by a friend who rides both four legs and 2 wheels. They compared horses, human footprints and bike tracks to see which were the most damaging on forest trails. Obviously, horses do nothing, as their hoof prints are spread out, and are, apparently, smaller than human footprints. Hillwalkers all have big feet, and their walking sticks loosen up the ground (more so than a 1 ton HORSE!?). The worst, obviously, are mountain bikers, who litter, make lots of noise, pay no regard to the trails, widening them as they see fit, and their long, snake like trails left behind dig 3 inches deep into the trail, aiding erosion of the trail my super-uber-massive-amounts compared to everyone else, with 1 cyclist being equivilant to 5 walkers, or, wait for it, SIX HORSES.:confused:
you can concoct any kind of nonsense once you have good vocabularly and throw in a few facts.
last year in Wicklow alone, 30,000 metric tonnes of litter was collected by Wicklow CC in Glendalough alone.
Most of it was tin foil and Cola bottles
The average walker weighs 81.4 KGs and might walk the equivelant of 1500 miles per year.
Thats equal to 14,000 kilojoules of kinetic energy, which when converted into actual physical energy would result in a trail from here to China, 8 inches deep and 5 feet wide.
Walkers boots have a thread made in the original Vibram style, which when paired up and used at a pace of 3 mph, can do serious damage to Blanket Bog as the rubber used is hard.
Mountainbikes however, tend to stay on hard ground,in singel file actively seeking harder stony ground, whereas walkers, complete wth Sealskin socks, Goretex boots and Knee length gaiters wil walk spread out and through whatever the terrain offers, actively testing the ruggedness of their equipment.
Mountainbikers average 70 kgs in weight, the rubber is softer , there a tiny minority compared to Walkers, Don't like getting mucky and wet and usually cycle to their offroad destinations, whereas walkers will arrive as Solo drivers and have dogs which either chase sheep or defecaete everywhere.
Whats fact and whats fiction
It must be boys like me then Richie they are talking about.I am tad heavier than 70 kg in fact only 91kg and falling.Its true what they say the bigger you are the more indentations you make.They (the walkers)want the mountains for themselves but if each code respects the other then we should get along just fine.
Its Halloween soon we could do a few sacrificial burnings to warn them off if you like.Or plant there heads on a stake like William Wallace.Only joking of course wink wink nod nod..
If hillwalkers really cared about the hills, they would prostrate themselves in a line over their precious bog and allow us to ride over them. I am sure we would all feel better afterwards.
thats whole stupid thing. I can appreciate the Rangers and the Veggielesbians getting upset about the Environment. They see everybody as a threat to their baby..and rightly so But hardcore pole waving Gaiter Clad " Walkers " see the Hills as their own playground. They are nazis..
they think they are the only ones with the rights to use t. in more than 20 years of MTBIng, I have never collided with a walker, i have had a few close ones where they deliberately walk in front of me ..
I've been enjoying the Mountains a lot longer than that..and the sheer volume of walkers that you see is staggering sometimes. Remember the 2 busloads at The Blast..
And then you see them up Mullacor in Winter, spread across the Bog, on the way up Camaderry from Turlough hill, there are so many routes through the Bog its a maze..
Who made that ?
Not me or the 2 or 3 others who use it.
And theres a freaking tarmac road up to it !!
Some walkers are very sound..its the rogue one, like Alfies mate off the back of 3 rock..
do you remember him..priceless..
on the way up Camaderry from Turlough hill, there are so many routes through the Bog its a maze..
Every time I go through there (when hillwalking) I get the heebies, imagine that place at night, alone, with no lights, scabbling around in circles in the dark, with nothing visible but the glowing eyes of rabid sheep watching your demise.
My Wife is both a "Walker" and a rabid sheep.......We have had several discussions about the needless erosion caused by armies of Sunday Hillwalkers. While chatting about the same subject with a walking group, she actually went against the vehement consensus of the group and quickly found herself ostracised from the "herd" for the rest of the day! Then she has the audacity to ask me to become a"Walking Leader" in their sordid little organisation! I ask ya!?!
what ?? are you some kind of double agent ?? Theres me with my articulated quad with Paulo in the trailer, tearing up the grassy bit on Camaderry...playing BOomBoom music, plans for the weekend..
feck it..i am announcing Presidential decree 666.. a nude Downhill off Scarr..to protest against the signs going up in The National Park against us..
Who's with me..!!
I was sitting in the dentist, and I picked up an Irish hillwalking mag... and there was an article on noise pollution.
The writer.... a hillwalker, was having a rant about noise disturbing him when he was walking, and his problem was with locals using lawnmowers, and their kids in their gardens riding noisy quads..... He wanted peace and tranquility.....
Feckin cheek..... bad enough that they think they own the mountains, now they want me to use a push mower, and gag my children.
He also complained about helicopters, yet he'd be the first to call one if he twists an ankle. Who else does the coastguard have to rescue up here? Sheep?
I thought it was a joke, but no......
This one was from a horse magaine, lent to me by a friend who rides both four legs and 2 wheels. They compared horses, human footprints and bike tracks to see which were the most damaging on forest trails. Obviously, horses do nothing, as their hoof prints are spread out, and are, apparently, smaller than human footprints. Hillwalkers all have big feet, and their walking sticks loosen up the ground (more so than a 1 ton HORSE!?). The worst, obviously, are mountain bikers, who litter, make lots of noise, pay no regard to the trails, widening them as they see fit, and their long, snake like trails left behind dig 3 inches deep into the trail, aiding erosion of the trail my super-uber-massive-amounts compared to everyone else, with 1 cyclist being equivilant to 5 walkers, or, wait for it, SIX HORSES.:confused:
you can concoct any kind of nonsense once you have good vocabularly and throw in a few facts.
last year in Wicklow alone, 30,000 metric tonnes of litter was collected by Wicklow CC in Glendalough alone.
Most of it was tin foil and Cola bottles
The average walker weighs 81.4 KGs and might walk the equivelant of 1500 miles per year.
Thats equal to 14,000 kilojoules of kinetic energy, which when converted into actual physical energy would result in a trail from here to China, 8 inches deep and 5 feet wide.
Walkers boots have a thread made in the original Vibram style, which when paired up and used at a pace of 3 mph, can do serious damage to Blanket Bog as the rubber used is hard.
Mountainbikes however, tend to stay on hard ground,in singel file actively seeking harder stony ground, whereas walkers, complete wth Sealskin socks, Goretex boots and Knee length gaiters wil walk spread out and through whatever the terrain offers, actively testing the ruggedness of their equipment.
Mountainbikers average 70 kgs in weight, the rubber is softer , there a tiny minority compared to Walkers, Don't like getting mucky and wet and usually cycle to their offroad destinations, whereas walkers will arrive as Solo drivers and have dogs which either chase sheep or defecaete everywhere.
Whats fact and whats fiction
It must be boys like me then Richie they are talking about.I am tad heavier than 70 kg in fact only 91kg and falling.Its true what they say the bigger you are the more indentations you make.They (the walkers)want the mountains for themselves but if each code respects the other then we should get along just fine.
Its Halloween soon we could do a few sacrificial burnings to warn them off if you like.Or plant there heads on a stake like William Wallace.Only joking of course wink wink nod nod..
If hillwalkers really cared about the hills, they would prostrate themselves in a line over their precious bog and allow us to ride over them. I am sure we would all feel better afterwards.
thats whole stupid thing. I can appreciate the Rangers and the Veggielesbians getting upset about the Environment. They see everybody as a threat to their baby..and rightly so But hardcore pole waving Gaiter Clad " Walkers " see the Hills as their own playground. They are nazis..
they think they are the only ones with the rights to use t. in more than 20 years of MTBIng, I have never collided with a walker, i have had a few close ones where they deliberately walk in front of me ..
I've been enjoying the Mountains a lot longer than that..and the sheer volume of walkers that you see is staggering sometimes. Remember the 2 busloads at The Blast..
And then you see them up Mullacor in Winter, spread across the Bog, on the way up Camaderry from Turlough hill, there are so many routes through the Bog its a maze..
Who made that ?
Not me or the 2 or 3 others who use it.
And theres a freaking tarmac road up to it !!
Some walkers are very sound..its the rogue one, like Alfies mate off the back of 3 rock..
do you remember him..priceless..
on the way up Camaderry from Turlough hill, there are so many routes through the Bog its a maze..
Every time I go through there (when hillwalking) I get the heebies, imagine that place at night, alone, with no lights, scabbling around in circles in the dark, with nothing visible but the glowing eyes of rabid sheep watching your demise.
My Wife is both a "Walker" and a rabid sheep.......We have had several discussions about the needless erosion caused by armies of Sunday Hillwalkers. While chatting about the same subject with a walking group, she actually went against the vehement consensus of the group and quickly found herself ostracised from the "herd" for the rest of the day! Then she has the audacity to ask me to become a"Walking Leader" in their sordid little organisation! I ask ya!?!
what ?? are you some kind of double agent ?? Theres me with my articulated quad with Paulo in the trailer, tearing up the grassy bit on Camaderry...playing BOomBoom music, plans for the weekend..
feck it..i am announcing Presidential decree 666.. a nude Downhill off Scarr..to protest against the signs going up in The National Park against us..
Who's with me..!!
I was sitting in the dentist, and I picked up an Irish hillwalking mag... and there was an article on noise pollution.
The writer.... a hillwalker, was having a rant about noise disturbing him when he was walking, and his problem was with locals using lawnmowers, and their kids in their gardens riding noisy quads..... He wanted peace and tranquility.....
Feckin cheek..... bad enough that they think they own the mountains, now they want me to use a push mower, and gag my children.
He also complained about helicopters, yet he'd be the first to call one if he twists an ankle. Who else does the coastguard have to rescue up here? Sheep?
I thought it was a joke, but no......
This one was from a horse magaine, lent to me by a friend who rides both four legs and 2 wheels. They compared horses, human footprints and bike tracks to see which were the most damaging on forest trails. Obviously, horses do nothing, as their hoof prints are spread out, and are, apparently, smaller than human footprints. Hillwalkers all have big feet, and their walking sticks loosen up the ground (more so than a 1 ton HORSE!?). The worst, obviously, are mountain bikers, who litter, make lots of noise, pay no regard to the trails, widening them as they see fit, and their long, snake like trails left behind dig 3 inches deep into the trail, aiding erosion of the trail my super-uber-massive-amounts compared to everyone else, with 1 cyclist being equivilant to 5 walkers, or, wait for it, SIX HORSES.:confused:
you can concoct any kind of nonsense once you have good vocabularly and throw in a few facts.
last year in Wicklow alone, 30,000 metric tonnes of litter was collected by Wicklow CC in Glendalough alone.
Most of it was tin foil and Cola bottles
The average walker weighs 81.4 KGs and might walk the equivelant of 1500 miles per year.
Thats equal to 14,000 kilojoules of kinetic energy, which when converted into actual physical energy would result in a trail from here to China, 8 inches deep and 5 feet wide.
Walkers boots have a thread made in the original Vibram style, which when paired up and used at a pace of 3 mph, can do serious damage to Blanket Bog as the rubber used is hard.
Mountainbikes however, tend to stay on hard ground,in singel file actively seeking harder stony ground, whereas walkers, complete wth Sealskin socks, Goretex boots and Knee length gaiters wil walk spread out and through whatever the terrain offers, actively testing the ruggedness of their equipment.
Mountainbikers average 70 kgs in weight, the rubber is softer , there a tiny minority compared to Walkers, Don't like getting mucky and wet and usually cycle to their offroad destinations, whereas walkers will arrive as Solo drivers and have dogs which either chase sheep or defecaete everywhere.
Whats fact and whats fiction
It must be boys like me then Richie they are talking about.I am tad heavier than 70 kg in fact only 91kg and falling.Its true what they say the bigger you are the more indentations you make.They (the walkers)want the mountains for themselves but if each code respects the other then we should get along just fine.
Its Halloween soon we could do a few sacrificial burnings to warn them off if you like.Or plant there heads on a stake like William Wallace.Only joking of course wink wink nod nod..
If hillwalkers really cared about the hills, they would prostrate themselves in a line over their precious bog and allow us to ride over them. I am sure we would all feel better afterwards.
thats whole stupid thing. I can appreciate the Rangers and the Veggielesbians getting upset about the Environment. They see everybody as a threat to their baby..and rightly so But hardcore pole waving Gaiter Clad " Walkers " see the Hills as their own playground. They are nazis..
they think they are the only ones with the rights to use t. in more than 20 years of MTBIng, I have never collided with a walker, i have had a few close ones where they deliberately walk in front of me ..
I've been enjoying the Mountains a lot longer than that..and the sheer volume of walkers that you see is staggering sometimes. Remember the 2 busloads at The Blast..
And then you see them up Mullacor in Winter, spread across the Bog, on the way up Camaderry from Turlough hill, there are so many routes through the Bog its a maze..
Who made that ?
Not me or the 2 or 3 others who use it.
And theres a freaking tarmac road up to it !!
Some walkers are very sound..its the rogue one, like Alfies mate off the back of 3 rock..
do you remember him..priceless..
on the way up Camaderry from Turlough hill, there are so many routes through the Bog its a maze..
Every time I go through there (when hillwalking) I get the heebies, imagine that place at night, alone, with no lights, scabbling around in circles in the dark, with nothing visible but the glowing eyes of rabid sheep watching your demise.
My Wife is both a "Walker" and a rabid sheep.......We have had several discussions about the needless erosion caused by armies of Sunday Hillwalkers. While chatting about the same subject with a walking group, she actually went against the vehement consensus of the group and quickly found herself ostracised from the "herd" for the rest of the day! Then she has the audacity to ask me to become a"Walking Leader" in their sordid little organisation! I ask ya!?!
what ?? are you some kind of double agent ?? Theres me with my articulated quad with Paulo in the trailer, tearing up the grassy bit on Camaderry...playing BOomBoom music, plans for the weekend..
feck it..i am announcing Presidential decree 666.. a nude Downhill off Scarr..to protest against the signs going up in The National Park against us..
Who's with me..!!