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Hiked up Cairn Gorm today, mega day out....our first time ever this far north!
Anyhoo, the day very nearly took a turn for the brown on the summit plateau. Some grubby minger had deposited a monster turd right by the hut on the summit ffs, literally an inch from where I'd sat down for lunch.
A plateau of that size and you've got to shit in the place where most people are likely to sit, ****ing werido?!!!
Close shave that, was there no signs or flies or crumpled fuel receipts nearby?
http://www.causticsoda.freeuk.com/fun/text/tamsmuckle.html
A shite at height - perhaps at dead of night
Surely the ghost of McGonnagal
It's a shit situation.
Same goes for lay-bys. The steady closure of public toilets over the previous decade or whatever had already created some grim parking spots, it's much worse this year.
Reminds me of being in Belgium a few years ago, for whatever reason they weren't big on public toilets and the lay-bys were horrific.
It won't help the hilltop shitters necessarily, but there really needs to be some extra provision made for roadside toilets.
Someone had also done a shite in the Thorneylee car park today as well. Complete with toilet paper. I almost done a Shite halfway down Slabs and tarts seeing how bloody steep it was.
walked through the lairig ghru the other day.
Approaching corrour bothy, someone had left a massive jobbie right in the middle of the path. Complete with half a dozen wipes. Literally miles of landscape all around without any people (even a metre off the path onto the heather and nobody would notice) yet someone chose to nip one off on the path.
arrrrgghhh!
otherwise great though. so nice to see wee trees popping up where they haven't been for a while.
I think those of us who love the outdoors are going to have to re-adjust to the 'expansion' of honeypot areas and the subsequent shit-tippery.
Good incentive to start exploring lesser known or even more remote wild areas that the grockles aren't drawn to...
which is why we went to Kintyre and Cowal - no dirty camping and very little in the way of suprise shites
You went to kintyre to avoid jobbies? is that a search filter you can use on tripadvisor?
Its a special filter for executive users!
Camping the other side of the LG at the start of the month was the same. Thing is; It was a good way from the path, so it was somebody who wasn't some random day tripper, you had to know your way about to be there. Unburied with attendant wipes, cheers for that.
I think that’s the problem 13th. Even a good few miles away from anything, idiots are now present. Last time I went through (being a diffferent kind of idiot with a bike) we saw no one. This time there were loads of people.
will this show up in the geological record? The great scat surge of 2020 along with masks and wipes?
Last time I was at Ben Alder Cottage someone had dropped a jobbie on the path round the RH side of the bothy two feet from the walls. Walk 7 miles to a bothy but can't walk 10 yards for a shite!
Ive had to do Wilderpoo's in various tweed valley forests. I never take wipes just used docking leaves or grass and always out of the way. I think the deer actually eat them .
Trust me, it isn't just the remote locations/wilderness that are suffering. I often take the dog around Scammonden Reservoir. Since lockdown it's become a honeypot for families in search of pic-nic sites, and the most noticeable new addition is human waste every few yards (or so it seems) complete with wipes. Nearby, a National trust moorland has become another picnic magnet (probably because of all the shite at Scammonden) and the levels of rubbish are horrendous. Last month my son realised our labrador was finishing off a pile of left-over food in amongst the heather, and made her drop whatever she was eating....grapes. Straight to the vet where she was made to vomit, and a dozen whole grapes were produced. An overnight stay for monitoring and blood tests later and a lovely bill for £500 were the result. ****s.
Trust me, it isn’t just the remote locations/wilderness that are suffering
as someone who has has to deal with members of the public taking a shit in the middle of his art gallery and also within minutes of a public video installation being unveiled .... in the middle of the video screen...... I can concur.
I think it's got to the point that these idiots are actually trolling us with this behaviour, I mean WTF would someone graffiti Ryvoan Bothy ffs other than to see who it winds up? I really just don't understand humans sometimes...
as someone who has has to deal with members of the public taking a shit in the middle of his art gallery and also within minutes of a public video installation being unveiled …. in the middle of the video screen……
I thought it was valid criticism and I would do it again.
I thought it was valid criticism
they do say that opinions are like arseholes
they do say that opinions are like arseholes
as in " I've got a massive one and I need to share it with as many people as possible"?
someone had left a massive jobbie right in the middle of the path. Complete with half a dozen wipes. Literally miles of landscape all around without any people (even a metre off the path onto the heather and nobody would notice) yet someone chose to nip one off on the path.
Riding down one of our more used local trails, round a corner at a fair lick ready for a little drop off, only to be greeted by the sight of what I can only describe as Hyacinth Bucket doing her own (not so) little drop off, right in the middle of the trail. Can't remember how the conversation went, but I uttered something along the lines of 'what the actual f...' I had to hop over her steaming turd while trying not to gag (at the smell, and also the image of what I had just witnessed). The scene was complete with her hen-pecked husband with a rat on a string dog waiting patiently on the fireroad. I posted on a local FB trail group shortly after to watch out for the trail 'debris'
See where you went wrong was not violently braking but not so hard that she didn't end up arse first in her own filth.
It's the only way some folk learn.
viz 'clag-gone' springs to mind...
Not even just a countryside problem. Many years ago I was walking past a close in Ruchill, Glasgow. The front door on the close was wedged open. I saw a teenage girl dropping a shite on the floor of the close. Couldn't even be bothered going to her house across the road.
We nearly walked on one today...half way up Cul Mor in Assynt; ie middle of nowhere. Dirty buggers.
It is with some irony that many fishermen in that area, hope to be going home with a 2lb Brownie from their day out.
We sat down in the Helvelyn wind break on the summit the other week...and quickly moved for the same problem! FFS!
I don't think the deer eat them. Poor forestry workers step in them and have a bad day after that.
Encountered two female mid-trail relievers last week on a single ride. First one spotted in the distance while she was still disrobing, managed to alert her with a loud 'MORNING!', the other one on a busy trail just outside a village, mid-whatever. I can't fathom why you wouldn't hop over a gate and at least make an effort not to be caught squatting.