AIBU to think booing the exhausted charity climbers was unfair?

do you have any idea how many people do 3 peaks for charity?? half the queue could have been doing it for all they knew

Absolutely should have waited. Entitled pricks.

It's exceptionally ironic that they are doing it for a person who is going to be severely disabled, but then use 'free will' and 'no policing of the queue'. The same applies to disabled toilets and parking, lift usage, all which makes the life of a disabled person more difficult. The whole interview shows, it's about their egos and not championing a cause.

From climb snowden website.

The only reason to join the queue is to get the picture with the Trig point, which is the stone marker at the top.

However , you’re right, the shop analogy doesn’t quite work as it’s a different set up and there are rules and regulations established by the shop.

They took it upon themselves to go a different way, when some sort of norm had been established to prevent there being a chaotic scramble at the top with everyone pushing and jostling.
Other people were prepared to comply with this for the benefit to all of an orderly experience. They chose not to because they (no one else) considered themselves exceptional, which naturally annoyed people.
Going to a till opened for you may make people annoyed with the shop, but they have no reason to blame the shopper, as the advantage has been given by others who consider the shopper exceptional, not taken by them.

It’s a trig point, it’s fair game.
if there are other people in your photo at the top of snowdon, that’s what you’d expect on a busy mountains. Go to any other popular hill and that’s what you’d get. If you want no one else to be there go at crack of dawn (and dont be surprised if other people have the same idea).
You’d be more at risk from the weather from queueing in hot/cold/wet than just getting on with your day

Well it would be difficult to walk the three peaks and the 400 mile route between them in 24 hours, so yes, I'm sure some sort of vehicle is involved.

As to people from the area walking up them they are in 3 different areas, so people locally do walk up them. Fewer walk up all 3 in 24 hours.

I have no idea whether companies organise trips to them. Happily we still live in a country where people can organise outings.

Perhaps there would be less wear and tear if they took away the railway.

You seem to think that mountain bikers and the 'outdoor community' are somehow superior to people who have put themselves out over a hot bank holiday weekend to raise money for charity. Mountain bikes can and do damage the landscape. Is your halo nicely polished?

I’m curious about what made you want to post about this?

This is similar to what happened here. They went a different way , thus not adding to the queue, got to the top,from the other side touched it (30 second thing) and went back down. I suppose they might’ve ruined the super duper top selfie of someone else(by being in the background ) , and thus cause a slight delay .

But said who? There's no signs to say what you're queuing for, nothing to say you HAVE to queue if you want to in some way document that you're touching it, just people choosing to wait in a queue because the people in front of them are.

No-one should be booing anyone unless they're at a panto. It should have been a loud tut, which is the official response to anyone pushing in to a queue.

It also seems this isn't an "official queue" - there's no signs or rules or anyone policing it, just people deciding to queue to get their selfie. Its so very british to form queues everywhere!

The queues are ridiculous and only because peopel are messing about taking photos. We climbed it 12 years ago, got to the top, couple of quick photos and move.

I'd assume queue was for photos, if you jsit wanna touch it you go straight over and touch it. Booing is infantile

If a till opens for food kitchen workers and she goes there, then no. She is not taking anything away from regular queuers, as they can't use the special till anyway, and as it's an additional resource she is relieving pressure on the original one, making it shorter for regular queuers.

Both can be twatty. That happens more often than not in real life. There isn’t always a goody and a baddie. They can be twats, that didn’t want to engage in a twatty activity (this time), who were met with twatty boos so they had a twatty moan to the papers.

They all suck.

And if they were using a GoPro which runs continuously? No posing required?

"needing" to touch a specific magic special place on the mountain or otherwise your climb doesn't count, is a completely logical and rationale thing to do.

I'd say it was the very opposite of logical and rational.

It depends doesn’t it? If a new till opens to serve people in x circumstance and she fits that circumstance, is she skipping the queue by going there?

Well as they were taking video of the touching of the trigger your point is irrelevant.
They should have joined the queue the same as everyone else

That’s a silly comparison. It is more like your neighbour being booed for using the scan and pack in Tesco when other people are queuing
for tills.

Personally I think a queue for selfies to show that you got to the top of a mountain is grim and that anyone who wants to should be able to walk round, touch the trig point and head down again.

Ahh the 3 peaks falicy.

Is this the same 3 peaks that needs the logistics to be on point. Minibus or similar driving between the sites?

Is this the same 3 Peaks that hardly anyone from the area does so its usually involves a long journey to get there?

Is this the same 3 Peaks that is famed for being a money earner for organisation companies who charge a big fee and bring little to the local economy?

Is this the same 3 Peaks that is causing issues with antisocial events (Like the main subject), antisocial parking, noise in early hours (More on this)?

Is this the same 3 Peaks which is causing quite a bit of wear and tear in the area?

I used to mountain bike in the area from time to time and never heard a good word from the local outdoor community about those doing the challenges

Most of the informed people schedule their efforts so they arrive at less busy times. In fact with the heat some do it when the sun isnt burning down. I suggest that there is a just a mix of self entitlement and grumpiness from the masses. There are similar challenges that could be done with less financial sacrifice that would be just as worthwhile.

That's for you to determine.

What's not for you or anyone else to determine is whether people have to queue to touch the trig - they don't.

Correct

Have DD and I technically not climbed Yr Wyddfa as we didnt go all the way to the trig point?

I wonder if my neighbour would get cheered to the front of the queue in Tesco when she's shopping for the food kitchen? She gets really tired because it's hard work and she's nearly 80. She wears a fleece with the charity logo on. Guess we'll never know, because she'd never dream of trying it.