Re: [LUG] Satnavs

[Simon Avery <digdilem@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 3 April 2014 20:53, Gordon Henderson <gordon+lug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 3 Apr 2014, Kevin Peat wrote:

On 3 April 2014 20:03:25 GMT+01:00, Adrian Midgley <amidgley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

When I was navigating in the Highlands with 20m visibility in the snow
GPS
had not been launched.  Knowing how to do it with map and compass is
not to
be disregarded.

>From Dr Adrian Midgley's hand

Extra skills are always handy but when I have been walking on the open moor and a thick fog comes in I would prefer a gps receiver to a paper map every time :]

Until the batterys go flat.

Seven P's, remember? You wouldn't go out walking on the moor without the right equipment, and that includes spares. It's also why I have standardised by gizmos to those that take AA's.

A typical longish walk means:

Camera, 2 x AA's inside.

Two GPS's (one's a backup) = 4 x AA's between them.

A cree torch ( 3 x AAA's)
A MP3 player (not so much moorland walks, but good for long uphills on SWCP etc) = 1 x AAA.

A turned-off phone. (Sadly this is where my battery standardisation goes splat, but I do take an AA powered charger sometimes, which weighs very little). Turned off, because I walk to get away from people. It's the only time I'm uncontactable.

Bumbag containing 4 x spare AA's and chocolate (battery for the flesh carrying this around)

All good quality and known rechargables.

I also take my brain, experience and judgement. Whilst that isn't infallable either, it has the casting vote.

 

Map & compass skills are good to have IMO. I used to teach them when I lived in Scotland - got me out of more than one pickle when munroing when the weather unnexpectedly changed - and once on Dartmoor when the foggy mizzle came down.

Absolutely don't dispute that. It's good to have skills, even ones you don't use very often. Never know when they'll be handy.

 

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