As hillwalking gains in popularity the paths that we take for granted become increasingly eroded, creating unsightly scars and damaging fragile habitats. In the absence of Government investment, who'll pay to fix the problem? Dan Bailey joins Stuart Younie of Mountaineering Scotland on An Teallach, to see just how bad things can get, and to explore a possible solution.
If you want an example of a very popular walk that is shredded, try Sgòrr na Cìche (Pap of Glencoe). In that case, trying to find out who has permission to do anything is one of the issues I think. It would be great to try to raise some money for work on it but you can't even add a collection box if you don't know who owns what parts of the path. Little video here to show an example.
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