Nimrod103 wrote:Wild campers of any kind are a blight on the landscape.
I'd suggest that is a huge generalisation.
How do you know of the WCers that leave nothing?
didds
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Nimrod103 wrote:Wild campers of any kind are a blight on the landscape.
scotia wrote:The North 500 has become so over-run by Camper Vans and Wild Campers (particularly around Durness) that trowels have been placed in 90 lay-bys to allow considerate users to dig a hole for their excrement.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-53734992
didds wrote:Nimrod103 wrote:Wild campers of any kind are a blight on the landscape.
I'd suggest that is a huge generalisation.
How do you know of the WCers that leave nothing?
didds
didds wrote:Nimrod103 wrote:Wild campers of any kind are a blight on the landscape.
I'd suggest that is a huge generalisation.
How do you know of the WCers that leave nothing?
didds
didds wrote:Ah. The thread was about campervans and caravans etc - didnt realsie you were taklking about tents.
Presumably if tenters used camoflage or beige/darkl green tents the problem would go away?
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/pPwAAOSw ... s-l640.jpg
didds
didds wrote:Nimrod103 wrote:Wild campers of any kind are a blight on the landscape.
I'd suggest that is a huge generalisation.
How do you know of the WCers that leave nothing?
didds
Nimrod103 wrote:Same difference. All the caravans and campervans I see on the (legal) campsites I use, are gleaming white and silver. As is mine.
didds wrote:Nimrod103 wrote:Same difference. All the caravans and campervans I see on the (legal) campsites I use, are gleaming white and silver. As is mine.
Mines stealth grey....
didds
Nimrod103 wrote:Is that the same shade as NC500 typical Scottish weather grey?
Rhyd6 wrote:Scott/Didds. Some info on the survey mentioned previously. It was called "The Snowden Green Key Initiative" but as far as I can make out it was never published.
Snorvey wrote:There was a thing on the BBC today about a guy that had invented a caravan that floats.
I think we should check all caravans and campervans for their floatability.
Rhyd6 wrote:This was divided into day visitors and people who stayed for a few days, mainly in caravans and camper vans. Day visitors especially those who had come just for the walking, tended to arrive early, park where there were no charges, bring sandwiches and drinks, walk their preferred route and go home. Visitors in motor homes tended to park wherever they could, bring provisions with them, rarely used the local restaurants and pubs though takeways did well.
R6
didds wrote:Rhyd6 wrote:This was divided into day visitors and people who stayed for a few days, mainly in caravans and camper vans. Day visitors especially those who had come just for the walking, tended to arrive early, park where there were no charges, bring sandwiches and drinks, walk their preferred route and go home. Visitors in motor homes tended to park wherever they could, bring provisions with them, rarely used the local restaurants and pubs though takeways did well.
R6
Im wondering overall if the CVs/MHs were in effect no different than the car drivers ie day trippers - except they sleep over and bugger off the next day rather than drive ioff the same day.
that's conjecture mind. This was a report it seems on one verys epcific place with an obvious single attraction.
My expereince is for more generic places with longer stays (even if only a very few dayS). Im not sure the two scenarios are analogous, but fuilly accept this is purely conjecture.
Cerainly though Id say that survey as described is not representative of Cvs/MHs typical usage, and those NHs/Cvs that do bugger off with little input to the very local economy may well be spendfing their cash 40 miles down the road elsewhere. As I said - Cvs dont have that much room let alone pfor perishable stuff so have to shop fairly often.
We'll agree to disagree maybe.
didds
dealtn wrote:I've been up Snowdon many times, but only see it as a day trip. I think I have only spent money in Llanberis once in all the times I have been, with the exception of the car park.
Having said that I will have spent multiple hundreds of pounds in Harlech where I would typically be based for 4-7 days, in shops, bars, restaurants etc. so I'm not sure how a "survey" or the tourist authorities (or locals) would categorise that. I would consider I have injected money into the "local economy" even if they wouldn't.
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