Stuart France
Active member
Today, the First Minister for Wales, has published a kind of government roadmap, with a traffic light system, but involving five colours, to explain the government approach to normalising society. The extra colours are black (the present lockdown), then red-amber-green intermediate stages of relaxation, leading to (presumably) white which is the status quo ante. He?s published a document adorned with library photos of smiling NHS workers and happy pensioners, but also containing some meat on the bones:
http://cambriancavingcouncil.org.uk/pdf/WGstatement-200515.pdf
Somewhat ahead of the Welsh are the French who have already permitted limited caving to resume, plus cave diving and canyoning activities. Here is a nuanced translation of the French deal:
http://cambriancavingcouncil.org.uk/pdf/FrenchCavingRulesMay2020.pdf
The Outdoor Alliance (Wales) is an action group consisting of all national bodies for adventure sports, plus various public sector interested parties including NRW. It is set to publish next week its own roadmap for the resumption of outdoor recreation in Wales. There was a 25-person zoom meeting to set this up about 10 days ago.
The Welsh Sports Association, which includes all sports bodies, even golf, held a 100-person zoom meeting this Weds, attended by the Welsh Government?s (WG) director of sport, their ?regeneration? project manager who did most of the govt talking, and a deputy director of Public Health Wales. The WSA is now embarked on a similar ?scenario? exercise for the resumption of all sports - but they are about a week or two behind the OA effort.
The WG says it wants to receive proposals from all sports through WSA or similar focal points to help plan the pathway back to outdoors recreation as we knew it. So we are pushing at an open door. But obviously they will deal with ?easy? sports first which present least risk. The French cavers have addressed risk already by proposing a phased return to their government bodies which begins by permitting only low grade caving etc activities ? and this negotiaated system has been officially adopted.
Whether Cambrian Caving Council goes with OA or WSA or both, we will need a plan as to what is practicable for caving, safe to undertake, and timescales for it to evolve. As CCC's Access Officer, I could propose an initial list of 'acceptable' caving trips for each stage of restrictions relaxation, under a booking system (say morning, afternoon and evening slots) where groups would have exclusive cave use to avoid unexpected encounters with other groups.
Please discuss.
http://cambriancavingcouncil.org.uk/pdf/WGstatement-200515.pdf
Somewhat ahead of the Welsh are the French who have already permitted limited caving to resume, plus cave diving and canyoning activities. Here is a nuanced translation of the French deal:
http://cambriancavingcouncil.org.uk/pdf/FrenchCavingRulesMay2020.pdf
The Outdoor Alliance (Wales) is an action group consisting of all national bodies for adventure sports, plus various public sector interested parties including NRW. It is set to publish next week its own roadmap for the resumption of outdoor recreation in Wales. There was a 25-person zoom meeting to set this up about 10 days ago.
The Welsh Sports Association, which includes all sports bodies, even golf, held a 100-person zoom meeting this Weds, attended by the Welsh Government?s (WG) director of sport, their ?regeneration? project manager who did most of the govt talking, and a deputy director of Public Health Wales. The WSA is now embarked on a similar ?scenario? exercise for the resumption of all sports - but they are about a week or two behind the OA effort.
The WG says it wants to receive proposals from all sports through WSA or similar focal points to help plan the pathway back to outdoors recreation as we knew it. So we are pushing at an open door. But obviously they will deal with ?easy? sports first which present least risk. The French cavers have addressed risk already by proposing a phased return to their government bodies which begins by permitting only low grade caving etc activities ? and this negotiaated system has been officially adopted.
Whether Cambrian Caving Council goes with OA or WSA or both, we will need a plan as to what is practicable for caving, safe to undertake, and timescales for it to evolve. As CCC's Access Officer, I could propose an initial list of 'acceptable' caving trips for each stage of restrictions relaxation, under a booking system (say morning, afternoon and evening slots) where groups would have exclusive cave use to avoid unexpected encounters with other groups.
Please discuss.