In reply to Offwidth:
> Potentally trashing the beautiful rock features with surface damage and polluting the area with chalk use. This will very likely be pissing off many people on a varaint of the Pennine way which goes right through it and might even become an access issue. Plus it will be likely annoying landscape photographers as its very photogenic.
Damn, I forgot about the photographers. Hoards of them up there lurking around the boulders. Be a real shame to spoil their photos with a subject. And walkers as well, why should they have to be exposed to filthy climbers?
Then there is the environment itself. In addition to the chalk, there are the footprints in the peat, the heather squashed by those bouldering mats and the increase in carbon dioxide breathed out by those filthy panting climbers - terrible.
And of course the disproportionate unsustainable increase in guidebook sales caused by these 8 pages which will have a huge impact on inflation causing it to rise to a ridiculous level, catapulting the country back into a recession. This will then lead to a knock on effect plunging the Euro into crisis once more, only this time a crisis that the Germans can't save us from, since we will drag down the Dollar as well, resulting in economic meltdown around the globe, riots in the street, poverty, war and the end of civilisations as we know it.
If only we hadn't included the Woolpacks.
Alan