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May 2024
12:18am, 3 May 2024
3,727 posts
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flyingfinn
LDPNA might as well just come clean and declare it a giant amusement park as that seems to be their underlying policy. It's sadly becoming an increasingly less attractive place to visit ☹️
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May 2024
11:01am, 3 May 2024
10,276 posts
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Northern Exile
Just a quick update regarding the charities question I posted a few weeks back: This morning I sent £200 to the Lake District Calvert Trust on behalf of the Frog Graham Round Club, thank you for the suggestion - it was a perfect fit.
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May 2024
1:23pm, 3 May 2024
31,902 posts
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Rosehip
Just saw the CumbriaCrack post on Facebook about it. Seems that many of the comments are very anti FriendsotLD and are all for having this sort of attraction - going on about jobs etc.
doesn't make sense to me, so many businesses are struggling as there aren't enough people who can both afford to live locally and take jobs in hospitality as it is.
If there is such a need for jobs, why is every hotel chain advertising for staff?
Couldn't work out if the person who was asking for a ski lift up Skiddaw (or was it Scafell?) and a bike track down was serious or not - but this does feel like the thin end of a wedge.
Its disappointing enough that the campsites are 'all' developing and turning more to glamping (Burns, looking at you, can't afford you any more  ) and the pubs are all being bought out by chains.
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May 2024
1:23pm, 3 May 2024
31,903 posts
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Rosehip
Well done NE
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May 2024
1:58pm, 3 May 2024
4,689 posts
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paulcook
Need some Starbucks, Greggs, McDonalds on the mountain tops too!
ff's succinct post sums it up quite well. It ain't a theme park. You can stick a zip slide anywhere in the country where it doesn't kill what wilderness (not the LD fits this) we do have.
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May 2024
2:53pm, 3 May 2024
3,140 posts
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Mushroom
In principle, I haven't got an issue with a zip line across or inside an old quarry, even in the LD. But there are far more suitable quarries in the LD than the Elterwater one, with much better access. But they're probably not owned by Burlington...
Skelwith Bridge and the surrounding roads will be a bit of traffic nightmare. Asking people to park at Brockhole to catch a shuttle bus just forces more traffic in and around Windermere & Ambleside.
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May 2024
2:54pm, 3 May 2024
3,141 posts
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Mushroom
I have enjoyed my Zip World visits to Snowdonia though
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May 2024
8:26pm, 12 May 2024
14,363 posts
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Homer
Evening..... two fab days round Ennerdale this weekend
Who's on admin? Can you bump me up to 126 please?
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May 2024
8:41pm, 12 May 2024
52,227 posts
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♪♫ Synge ♪♫
First 2025 event is in the diary. After walking The Lap in 2022 and 2023, I’m going to have a go at running it in 2025! 😀
Entries for May 2025 opened at 8:00pm tonight and are going fast …
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May 2024
8:46pm, 12 May 2024
24,147 posts
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Dave A
Beautiful weekend to be up there. Heading up to Langdale tomorrow for 3 nights. Have a route in mind to get 3 or 4 previous ones that I haven’t logged before, plus 3 genuine new ones done.
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