Since the Highways people deliberately prevented vehicle access to the Piper House parking space those travelling up on the Hathersage Road have been limited to using the small Stony Ridge car park. This gets full easily at weekends and when there's icy weather like today the sloping exit is a disincentive for some without 4WDs. This morning a car had been apparently abandoned just on the slope itself making it impossible to get in anyway. One alternative is now to use the layby below Piper House and enter Blacka via an old gateway. The problem with this is that there is no offical path at that point and therefore you have to forge on through bramble.
Perhaps we should all visit Blacka by walking or going up on the bus.
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I have left a comment about the birch bashing on the 6 December entry, and my concern for the existing woodland on Blacka. Since there is another bashing session planned by SWT for 25 January, perhaps you could forewarn potential volunteers of the perversity of clearing woodland on Blacka that is mapped on the national Inventory of Woodland and Trees.
Thanks for that Mark. The way so-called conservationists happily talk about 'bashing' native British trees never ceases to amaze me. It seems they cannot abide the thought that any area could become natural. It's control freakery at its worst. And to encourage members of the public to adopt the same approach and vocabulary is scandalous.
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