The
BMC has
published a new
Green
Guide to the Uplands,
a booklet aimed at climbers, walkers and mountaineers giving essential
information on how best to care for the fragile upland landscape.
The
guide contains general information on access, conservation, hill
walking, climbing, scrambling and winter mountaineering alongside
specific advice on sanitation, transport, camping and sustainable crag
use.
For example, there's advice on taking dogs into the outdoors,
restrictions on climbing because of nesting birds, and even cairns. For
what it's worth, the BMC 'does not support the use of waymarks, cairns
or other intrusive features other than those traditionally established
on summits and path junctions'.
Many OMers will be interested in the Wild camping section, which lists
some basic common sense precautions you can take to minimise your
impact on the environment. And there's also a useful section on
sanitation and the best way to minmise toilet impact on the outdoors.
The BMC's hope is that the booklet will be used as a basis
for best practice by everyone using the outdoors and, in the process,
by affecting the behaviour of each of us, reduce our
impact on the upland environment.
Well worth reading and you can download the booklet in pdf form for
free from
www.thebmc.co.uk
