I saw what I considered to be utterly disgraceful scenes at Castlerigg last Sunday, with several people there with a couple of "colourful" characters from (I believe) Guatemala blowing horns and smoking god only knows what, who proceeded to dig a pit and start a fire in the centre of the circle as part of some sort of "ceremony", while trying to get the other visitors and onlookers to join in with them.
Both myself and another challenged them about what they were doing, but got nothing but stuff about "feeling the love" etc etc.... I put my point about this being a criminal act, and damaging to history and culture, and would they do this in a church, but got short shrift. I had to leave, with about 15 friends, because it was so upsetting seeing such willful damage to this splendid place.....
I reported this to the national park office in Keswick afterwards, but they sort of shrugged their shoulders and said what could they do about it ? And that this sort of thing is getting more and more common....
Something is not right. This message is just to keep things from messing up down the road