Charity challenges

[ttxela2]

I do try not to get too grumpy about people actually spending time in their (reasonably) local outdoor spaces if they’re enjoying it and aren’t doing any measurable harm 🤷.

I guess we live in a time with a population density such that although regularly getting outdoors into your local countryside is generally agreed to be good for the individual it would also be a disaster for the countryside if every individual did it...

 

[hyweldavies]

I don't mind some of them, as they get otherwise non-participants doing something vaguely outdoorsy or adventurous, and these are broadly "a good thing" eg Welsh 3000, whether as a money raiser or just a fun endurance challenge

I do have misgivings / cynicism about people doing a jolly / holiday and claiming " it's for charity" and likewise service providers charging considerable fees out of the money supposedly raised

I have more specific objections to the "three peaks challenge" which seems to involve a lot of very tired people driving the length of the country at likely excessive speeds to meet an artificial deadline

 

[paul]

I have more specific objections to the "three peaks challenge" which seems to involve a lot of very tired people driving the length of the country at likely excessive speeds to meet an artificial deadline

True, and besides often causing bedlam in the early hours of the morning when large groups descend on Wasdale (for Scafell Pike) on their way to or from Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) or Ben Nevis, it is the local mountain rescue teams who have to pick up the pieces when partakers get injured or lost - and ironically the mountain rescue teams are themselves are charities and often get bugger all from the amount raised.

 

[Flotsam]

Concerning the charity Parachute jumps, I actually know a caver who broke his leg doing one.

 

[ian.p]

Mind you both CRO and UWFRA have there own three peak style events that raise a significant amount of money for the teams so its a bit hard to have too much of a go at the competition....

 

[andrewmcleod]

Mind you both CRO and UWFRA have there own three peak style events that raise a significant amount of money for the teams so its a bit hard to have too much of a go at the competition....

I think it's the driving on the Three Peaks in 24 hours (Snowdon, Scafell Pike, Ben Nevis) that's the problem, not the walking.

 

[Custards]

I think it's the driving on the Three Peaks in 24 hours (Snowdon, Scafell Pike, Ben Nevis) that's the problem, not the walking.

Maybe the Three Peaks should be re formed to doing it as fast as traveling via public transport between them can allow?

 

[JoshW]

Maybe the Three Peaks should be re formed to doing it as fast as traveling via public transport between them can allow?

Or walk between them

 

[alanw]

Or walk between them

Or sail (and row!), cycle and run.

All About the Three Peaks Yacht Race

Three Peaks yacht Race - a classic sailing and adventure challenge since 1977.

www.threepeaksyachtrace.co.uk

 

[Fjell]

Or sail (and row!), cycle and run.

All About the Three Peaks Yacht Race

Three Peaks yacht Race - a classic sailing and adventure challenge since 1977.

www.threepeaksyachtrace.co.uk

This one is more accessible and arguably harder since it takes in the Paps of Jura and Ben More. They let kids do it more readily.

Scottish Islands Peaks Race – A sailing and fell running adventure race around the beautiful west coast of Scotland

www.scottishislandspeaksrace.com

The hill can take care of itself.