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skimble Joined: 23/06/2008 Location: Gwynedd View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Zip wires for Penrhyn quarry? Posted: 15/12/2011 13:59:59 Reply \| Quote Treetop Adventure of Betws y Coed has lodged a planning application for two zip wires at Penrhyn Quarry. It is intended that the longer one will be over 1500m long and pass over the flooded pit. More details here: http://www.gwynedd.gov.uk/swiftlg/apas/run/WPHAPPDETAIL.DisplayUrl?theApnID=C11/1113/16/LL IP: 193.39.172.201
Vanoord Joined: 28/11/2005 Location: North Wales View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Zip wires for Penrhyn quarry? Posted: 15/12/2011 15:26:37 Reply \| Quote Put me on the list to do that! -- Filling space until a new signature comes along... IP: 81.130.48.203
Edd Joined: 02/07/2008 Location: Alderley Edge View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Zip wires for Penrhyn quarry? Posted: 15/12/2011 16:01:07 Reply \| Quote Now that will be cool -- 'having a spiffing adventure underground!' IP: 86.178.3.199
BertyBasset Joined: 13/12/2007 Location: Caernarfon, North Wales View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Zip wires for Penrhyn quarry? Posted: 15/12/2011 22:13:04 Reply \| Quote Yep, I'm for that. IP: 217.43.72.188
AndyC Joined: 24/10/2007 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Zip wires for Penrhyn quarry? Posted: 15/12/2011 22:32:17 Reply \| Quote Will it support a fat bloke? -- 'A Year on the Wye' DVD now available from www.starvideo.co.uk/wye IP: 87.113.21.96
derrickman Joined: 18/02/2009 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Zip wires for Penrhyn quarry? Posted: 23/12/2011 19:24:56 Reply \| Quote no sense advertising for German tourists if it won't.... -- ''the stopes soared beyond the range of our caplamps' - David Bick...... How times change .... oh, I don't know, I've still got a lamp like that. IP: 88.202.124.68
SimonRL Joined: 27/11/2005 Location: North Wales View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Zip wires for Penrhyn quarry? Posted: 23/12/2011 22:45:56 Reply \| Quote Sounds pretty awesome Can't wait to have a go -- Half the lies you tell ain't true IP: 95.147.255.218
Digit Joined: 29/07/2009 Location: North Wales View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Zip wires for Penrhyn quarry? Posted: 16/04/2012 23:41:05 Reply \| Quote Apparently approved:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-17731507 -- If you keep your eyes open you may see something interesting. If you don't something interesting may find you. IP: 81.178.3.180
viewer Joined: 04/09/2007 Location: New rules mean it's a secret View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Zip wires for Penrhyn quarry? Posted: 16/04/2012 23:41:12 Reply \| Quote planning application approved. could be open in a few months. world's longest planned for llechwydd at 2 miles! weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-17731507 -- 'Learning the ropes' IP: 188.28.245.184
RockChick Joined: 12/08/2008 Location: Chester View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Zip wires for Penrhyn quarry? Posted: 17/04/2012 10:44:13 Reply \| Quote that sounds fantastic!! -- I have many faults, but all of them are normal!! IP: 91.195.113.2
Pinzgauer Joined: 11/12/2005 Location: Ayrshire View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Zip wires for Penrhyn quarry? Posted: 17/04/2012 11:20:41 Reply \| Quote I presume you can bring your own pulley after dark ? Avoids all that unsavoury payment stuff. -- Who put the overall's in Mrs Murphy's Chowdah ?? IP: 79.78.81.230
NigelH Joined: 04/02/2010 Location: Sutton Coldfield View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Zip wires for Penrhyn quarry? Posted: 17/04/2012 12:34:07 Reply \| Quote Whoa! Count me in! Liking your thinking Pinzgauer. IP: 82.33.244.186
AndyC Joined: 24/10/2007 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Zip wires for Penrhyn quarry? Posted: 17/04/2012 12:34:57 Reply \| Quote Would it be also an opprtunity to open up any intetresting artefacts to the public? It could be in the terms of the contract that they give the remaining water balances a lick of paint. -- 'A Year on the Wye' DVD now available from www.starvideo.co.uk/wye IP: 46.60.252.89
rockster Joined: 11/07/2009 View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Zip wires for Penrhyn quarry? Posted: 17/04/2012 20:35:36 Reply \| Quote AndyC wrote: Will it support a fat bloke? Lets hope so. I wouldn't mind a go of that IP: 94.192.173.103
grahami Joined: 29/01/2007 Location: Telford, Shropshire View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Zip wires for Penrhyn quarry? Posted: 18/04/2012 10:20:56 Reply \| Quote AndyC wrote: Would it be also an opprtunity to open up any intetresting artefacts to the public? It could be in the terms of the contract that they give the remaining water balances a lick of paint. Don't hold your breath! Mind you with a bit of work they could probably open the Fitzroy and Sebastopol tunnels and add an underground tour Also unlikely! Grahami -- The map is the territory - especially in chain scale. IP: 212.219.117.106
ladder monkey Joined: 04/08/2007 Location: wakefield View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Zip wires for Penrhyn quarry? Posted: 18/04/2012 16:06:57 Reply \| Quote grahami wrote: AndyC wrote: Would it be also an opprtunity to open up any intetresting artefacts to the public? It could be in the terms of the contract that they give the remaining water balances a lick of paint. Don't hold your breath! Mind you with a bit of work they could probably open the Fitzroy and Sebastopol tunnels and add an underground tour I wonder if the Lake District National Park Authority will have a retrospective look at the Honister Zip Line and see what the Lakes is missing out on?Unlikley Also unlikely! Grahami -- just blundering about IP: 87.113.53.55
Lister Joined: 07/10/2007 Location: Helsby, Cheshire View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Zip wires for Penrhyn quarry? Posted: 18/04/2012 20:09:28 Reply \| Quote WOOOOoooooooo I can feel my ears flapping in the wind already .....Lister -- 'Adventure is just bad planning' Roald Amundsen IP: 78.150.237.33
moocher Joined: 04/07/2010 Location: north west View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Zip wires for Penrhyn quarry? Posted: 19/04/2012 09:57:25 Reply \| Quote Sounds like a possible trip for AN ..maybe before it opens we could negotiate a good deal ...get some great pics and vids as you wizz through the air ..mmmmm -- Excuse me while my carbon footprint kicks your eco-mentalist backside! IP: 149.254.186.123
skimble Joined: 23/06/2008 Location: Gwynedd View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Zip wires for Penrhyn quarry? Posted: 19/04/2012 12:04:25 Reply \| Quote Maybe we could offer our services as models for their publicity material and get paid for it IP: 194.83.12.7
ladder monkey Joined: 04/08/2007 Location: wakefield View Profile View Posts View Personal Album View Personal Files View all Photos Send Private Message	Zip wires for Penrhyn quarry? Posted: 19/04/2012 12:53:18 Reply \| Quote I WOULD DO IT FOR FREE -- just blundering about IP: 87.113.53.55

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