This is an attempt to capture the change of a plan: From attending to our climbing skills to playing about-
in the first National Park of the UK.
Shortly after our visit to Glasgow we went to the Peak District, which was in November 2007. We sought solitude and found rocks, slabs, crags, aretes and boulders already too cold for practicing serious climbing. We were left to imagine how else we could engage with that exquisit spaciousness other than walking.
So we did ignorantly what we usually do in the city: Playing about., forgetting naturs protection. The physical closeness we reached with surfaces away from the beaten tracks felt roguish. We were constantly reminded through signs, brochures, leisure and tourist commodities how controled and somewhat untouchable the Peak is.
What really remains untouchable though is the believe that only the 'untouched' remains protected, thus desirable and so profitable.