How will we go back to the outdoors?
The weekend before Britain’s lockdown measures were first announced, beauty spots all over the country were swamped by an influx of visitors. With indoor activities either out of limits or deemed too hazardous, people were doing what probably seemed sensible at the time: looking for their recreational kicks in the great outdoors.
That was back in March. At the time of writing, the UK government is under pressure to release a lockdown ‘escape plan’ with daily deaths still in triple figures–so how exactly will that work? And how will it work in relation to the outdoors?
“It’s going to be really complex,” says Heather Morning, Mountain Safety Advisor at Mountaineering Scotland. “We all started
