AIBU to think booing the exhausted charity climbers was unfair?

[dottiedodah]

2 charity climbers booed ,because they went before the queue to touch the top!Had already done the 3 peaks challenge and were exhausted .A man physically tried to stop them by putting his hand out! YABU they should have waited .YANBU they should not have been booed

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

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!

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.

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 .

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

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

Absolutely should have waited. Entitled pricks.

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

Primark allows disabled people to go to the end till and get instantly served. If someone was powering a scooter/wheelchair and someone ran ahead, claiming disability, then you blame the shopper. Just like people who just use the disabled toilets because they can't be bothered walking a bit further, or waiting in the toilet queue.

However reading it, it should be ok to just touch the peak, while people are swapping for photos.

I don't suppose people doing it for charity would wait in a queue for an hour to take a selfie. More likely half the queue had taken the train up for their selfie opportunity.

The QUEUE isnt just to take a selfie its a very narrow set of steps to the top of the trig and the same down the other side, it is 1 person wide, you have no choice but to queue if your having a selfie or just touching the top, if you just barge past they could easily have unbalanced someone off the steps. And then to complain to the papers about is is Peek CFerry

I dont suppose youve ever been up there or you would know its not JUST a queue, its a narrow set of steps to the top, if you touch it or if you take a selfie its no different.

what absolute rubbish, if you want to tap the marker you have to go up the steps, if you want to go up the steps you have to queue

they had a go pro live feed.

it wasnt a stop, pose, no one else can be in the immediate vicinity shot, oh get the view right, take it again, move, oh no you got my bad side, your eyes were shut, take it again. Oh Dave you're such a dick, take it from this side, get my good side.

TOTALLY different scenario. Not irrelevant. And no, a queue on a mountain for those wanting an insta shot is ridiculous.

No you don't. You can just go up the cairn/rocks the trig is set on top of. As people have said, the trig is approachable from 360 degrees.

The only criticism I would have is for choosing a school holiday week, assuming they are not teachers or education support staff.

There was almost no queue at the summit when I went up Yr Wyddfa in mid June a few years ago.

Queuing on a hill, world’s gone mad!

EXACTLY the only way this is an issue is if they have gone UP the steps to touch the top. Im well aware what it looks like ive been up there.

you queue to go UP a high set of steps to touch the marker at the top. no one has to but its tradition that you touch the highest point, there is no way they have done 3 peaks without touching the TOP of the trig point

And the trig point IS NOT THE MOUNTAIN. By definition if you get to the bottom of the steps you are already at the top of the mountain. The queue is to get to the top of the trig and take a picture.

Too right I haven't been up there. I prefer hills with no railways and rural slums at the top with queues of people.

Is it tradition? Where does it say you have to touch the top of the trig point to do the Three Peaks? Summiting a mountain is not the same thing as touching the top of a trig point. Particuarly on Snowdon where the trig has been put ontop of a cairn.