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What is the HUGE problem with him driving up there? I guess I don't understand.

That is stuck?!?

Don't look "stuck" to me. More like "parked." Buncha pansies. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/mrt.gif" alt="" />

That is the English equivalent to driving in designated wilderness area in the U.S. ...

Yeah but it looks like there is a road there. It's not like he drove through some pristine wilderness, or damaged some million year old rock formation. Maybe Reuben will show up. He is our special envoy to the UK. Or should we call him Senior UK correspondent.

Goodness no, old boy - the road is actually a path for hikers and nature lovers - to appreciate the beautiful fauna and flora and to gaze at the rare scenery of it all..... perhaps to even inspire illusions of the ghosts of historic proportions from a time when the grandeur was not considered quite so grand - pre tourism, that is.

It is inconceivable that the beauty could be marred - or the inspirational tranquility broken - by the appearance of loud, smelly, polluting, beer-drinking slobs with their terrain-scorching, earth-rending machines, not to mention the jezzabelles that accompany them in their debauchery and humiliating disrespect for such a magnificent mountain that's a little taller than the world's tallest building.

Heaven forbid! It would be an inconceivable travesty of monumental proportions.

Mt. Snowdon

Now you know...... <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Frank

Unlike the US, there are no public lands in the UK. If you're wheeling you're either on private property or the governments land. Same goes for much of Europe actually. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

This may explain it:



Well, I guess internal combustion is ok up there, the incline cog railway to the summit uses diesels, and external combustion engines are ok, because they use steam engines, too. They go up to a summit development dating from the first half of the 1800's, and the present summit building looks like a stainless steel phallus lying on it's side with a train track entering the business end.

In any case, it's in Wales, and as a carrier of Welsh blood, I can tell you we are all somewhat daft. You drive up the thing because it's there to be driven up. If you can, you will. Just because we used to disembowel Angles up there at the vernal equinox so the crops would grow in the flinty soil doesn't mean you shouldn't drive up there. Damn English and their rules...

Don't expect our brother Reuben (who has been mostly silent lately) to explain. The Welsh don't understand the Welsh, must less do Englishmen...

Oh no - we're related! That's trouble, right there.



Well, since my other bloodline is English, now I know why I can't understand myself sometimes.

Frank

My brother in law (Scottish) said he understands both the Welsh and the English. He told me it's simple. You're both daft LOL. But then he told me all Scotsmen are too so his opinion on that may be a bit off. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />