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An epic and emotionally charged story of your loss and of the time you spent on the trail. Thank you for posting. I sincerely hope the trail provided some form of peace for you and your family. Its difficult to discern the pain you and your family you have gone through.. A remarkable piece of writin...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/27/heather-morning-being-male-and-on-your-phone-are-biggest-dangers-on-scottish-mountains-says-expert

Tend to agree

Good example of how the Ben can catch you.....

Climbing Ben Nevis 1345m (The Highest Mountain of UK) Failed attempt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLwi9RMI-5I&t=577s

This guy is very lucky to be alive but due credit to him for posting

I cant quite see if he was wearing crampons

I would also vote for OS locate

if your not interested in a map and just wish to convey your position to another person or confirm your position then consider a Garmin inReach Mini
https://hikingguy.com/hiking-gear/in-depth-garmin-inreach-mini-review/

I use Gia GPS for all my needs in remote places in the world that I have to travel too. I do use satellite devices but that's for communication, For your needs which you describe which include elevation data etc the free option using Open Street Map which Gai.GPS uses as its base layer would be suff...

1200 years ago Britain had 1 million Boar Over 1 million Deer 10,000 Brown Bears 5000 Wolves 100,000 Beavers 80,000 Aurochs (wild cattle 6 feet in height, weighing 1 ton) Reindeer All encountered the most lethal species, us. The last wolf was killed in Scotland in 1621. I would reintroduce all of th...

In a letter published by the Ministry of Defence in October 2019 they confirmed

Joint Warrior dates;

21 September – 15 October 2020

As Dave indicates above its best to make further enquiries to ensure these possible dates don't or do move.

My family are from the Borders. This is such a beautiful report and lovely photographs.

Enjoyed reading this and your photos complimented the writing. Thanks for taking the trouble to do the report.

I tend to find these are about 30% more cheaper with free delivery, odd I know but all good.

https://dash4it.co.uk/

Meridian Couple of points; If you are going to use your phone to navigate put it into Airplane mode when navigating you will save battery and still be able to use the GPS signal. Works on Iphone 7. One thing to always check before you commit to app navigation is does the relevant app let me print of...

I agree with JollyRoger GPS receivers can give a 10 figure grid reference ie to an accuracy of 1 m but because of the number of satellites and their positions have an accuracy of 3-10m at best. In summary accuracy is determined by the number of satellites the GPS can see plus other variables. For qu...

Paul this link below may help to clarify...many thanks for all your outstanding notes and advice on the site.....my wife currently doing her ward round has also said thank you https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52062209 Nicola Sturgeon has also emailed this morning indicating; 'I know many of you will be...

Stop and think , though of the essential workers working flat out, long shifts with little protection from the virus etc to keep us safe, getting food into the shops (and we repay that effort by being like locusts) and caring for those who need it. They won't have time to go to the hills although th...

Everybody likes a graph...…… case trajectories https://photos.smugmug.com/Ptribes/WH/i-gBWQpZN/0/4dd94065/XL/Capture3-XL.jpg death trajectories https://photos.smugmug.com/Ptribes/WH/i-kVjpDfn/0/596953c5/XL/Capture4b-XL.jpg people are more susceptible where they have underlying health conditions http...

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