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now are these the ultimate pushy parents?

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FluffyMummy123 · 21/02/2007 08:59

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MrsJohnCusack · 21/02/2007 09:20

everyone is too nice about it too, looking at the comments of the rescue team leader.
here (NZ) some people ignored multiple warning signs the other day and bits of glacier fell on them and injured them. Was extremely refreshing to see the local police guy laying into them in the paper for being bloody stupid etc.

FioFio · 21/02/2007 09:21

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Chandra · 21/02/2007 09:23

I think it says they were rescued in the middle of the night, not that they were doing a night walk ,and considering the one who reported them had talked to them/saw their car earlier in the day, it seems that they had done the vary common mistake of getting the wrong way back and found themselves lost in the middle of the night.

Chandra · 21/02/2007 09:26

Now, taking a 5 yr old for a nine mile ascent wa mile one walk??? I remember doing a 6 mile one and almost had to carry one of my friends down because he didn't had enough strenght to complete the way down at a regular pace.

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FluffyMummy123 · 21/02/2007 09:35

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nailpolish · 21/02/2007 09:41

PMSL @ organic apple juice

NadineBaggott · 21/02/2007 09:45

Remember the family (with 3 tots in tow) that went up Snowdonia ill equipped in freezing conditions and had to be rescued?

I think these folk leave their brains back at base camp!

CheesyFeet · 21/02/2007 09:46

What goes through the minds of these looooooooooooooooooooons? Bet the parents think the whole experience was Character Building for the 5yo

Bozza · 21/02/2007 09:53

5yos don't have little cute fat legs. They have skinny ones.

I would have thought that midday was quite late to start on a lengthy hike at this time of year. When we've gone walking we've always set off much earlier than that.

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FluffyMummy123 · 21/02/2007 09:54

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nailpolish · 21/02/2007 09:55

they will learn nothing from this

they will share the experience and laugh over it at church then go again the next weekend

the 5 yr old will not be best pleased

tissy · 21/02/2007 09:56

A torch, a map and some waterproofs would have been handy too

Marina · 21/02/2007 09:57

And relax tissy , no I'm not. But my aged ps lived there for 15 years and their GP was on the Cockermouth Mountain Rescue so they got all the considerable goss. Bassett man had off the record threats whispered in his ear after his second call-out in four days!
They live down near us in London now and I do miss those interminable hacks up the A1/A66 to get there

tissy · 21/02/2007 09:58
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Hulababy · 21/02/2007 09:59

Do you reckon that 5 year old was allowed his pushchair after the age of 3 then?

foxinsocks · 21/02/2007 10:02

I shall utter 2 words before disappearing out for the day

twat insurance

should be compulsory imo

RTKangaMummy · 21/02/2007 10:18

I went mountain walking in Lake district as child along with my parents and bro and sis

we walked up and down catbells no problem and would include walking from the cottage

it would be a 10 - 15 mile round trip at least and we would be out all day walking etc.

We had kendal mint cake so we were ok

BUT WE DID IT IN AUGUST not FEB

My parents didn't drive so we walked everywhere

I am nowhere near fit enough to do it now!!!!!!!!!!

suedonim · 21/02/2007 14:18

Why would anyone even want to go outdoors in the UK in February????

Marina · 21/02/2007 14:21

Hello person in a steaming hot climate
A bracing low-level trot along Borrowdale or round Ennerdale in Feb - lovely. Slogging up Scafell in the dusk, not.

Mumpbump · 21/02/2007 14:31

We did loads of walking as a child, but going up Scafell Pike at this time of year is crazy. It is difficult at any time of year, if you ask me, and easy to lose your way coming back down - we did last time in the middle of the summer. And why would you set off at 12:00 for a walk that can easily take a good 7 hours for fit adults with no children? Madness!

paulaplumpbottom · 21/02/2007 15:28

I walk with my daughter a lot. We \walk in the Mourne mountains alot, but it has never occured to me, not once, to take her up a mountain. She is too little. 5 is to little. They get tired easily and need a lot of rest breaks.

snowleopard · 21/02/2007 15:37

Hmmm... I'm sorry for the 5-y-o too. My dad would take us walking and it was not fun at that age. I was always exhausted and once (aged 6) I got much too cold because he wasn't paying attention and the other people in the group had to wrap me up in their coats. I didn't moan to him because he would have called me soft. Not that this family are that bad, but I bet they're not seeing things from their 5-y-o's point of view.

hairymclary · 21/02/2007 15:47

they might not have been attempting to climb the whole thing.
there is nothing wrong with going climbing/hiking with children.

lemonaid · 21/02/2007 16:05

hairymclary if they were, as the article suggests, on their way down from having climbed it when they got lost (not uncommon on Scafell if I recall correctly it can be hard to find the right path down) then presumably they were intending to climb the whole thing (unless they were extra-specially clueless and managed to climb Scafell accidentally, in which case hats off to them).

Climbing/hiking with children is a good thing. I'd see nothing wrong with going up Catbells with a 5yo, even in February (except that the sheep would probably eat your lunch). Nothing wrong with a walk around the lower reaches of Scafell either, assuming you know where you are and what you are doing. But climbing to the top and back, in February, starting at midday? I can't see how, with a five-year-old, you could hope to make it back down again in daylight. And Scafell is bloody tricky in the dark.