DM wrote:Using dark blue to make part of the stream "uncrossable " would have resulted in more people going across in that area - my opinion.
Is the real problem here that some people don't want to accept that their knowledge of the symbols and/or leg planning technique is not ideal, leading them to devise all sorts of justifications why they crossed.
We should be pleased we had a dry week, otherwise that easily crossable stream that was mentioned in final details as a potential safety risk would have been a raging torrent. And then if there had been no marking of it, would the same people be banging on about lack of attention to safety?
Those who attended Race the Castles at Balmoral in 2014 and started from the west end may remember the river - marked as crossable (which it is for approximately 99% of the time) but which on the race day (after several hours of rain overnight) was a raging torrent. Some competitors approached it and then revised their route, others attempted to cross and gave up when they started swimming, others managed to cross but lost their SI card...