My iphone broke last week when i had it out o the hills. Water got in to it killed the back light cost me £50 to get it sorted. Must be more careful next time i have it out. Till i can afford a satmap Oh dear. Before I had a Satmap I was using my iPhone. To protect it I bought an Aquapac . I no lon...

Luddites Vs Techies Round 300. Go!

retrogear wrote:Renewing an old thread here. Who'll buy one of these?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10858815

If the ultraviolet light source is built in, and it doesn't weigh much; maybe. I'm probably going to buy one of these though

Paul Webster wrote:But if you go with a principle of paths being paid for by their users, where would you stop?

I think you've hit the nail on the head there.

To be honest, if she's "running fit" pretty much any munro will be fairly straight forward, so long as it's not technically demanding. The hard part is not complaining when the rain/wind batter you! I'd recommend The Cobbler, Ben Ime and Ben Narnain as the views are excellent. I've never b...

Stretch wrote:Just hope that at 6'-7" I actually fit in the thing

Jesus you are tall! I'm 5'6 and It's perfect for me. Will be interested to hear how you get on...

Caberfeidh wrote:You're on the wrong website ~ that's WALKIES-HIGHLANDS you're after...

+10 Internet points for making me laugh!

SLIOTHACH That's a fantastic idea and a great name for a mountain. Reminds me of my other trick - winding tourists up by pretending I can talk Gaelic when all I've doing is stringing together mountain names and German (which I can vaguely speak). Liathach stuc a' vorlich chroin sein butter churner ...

I have loads of accounts on the Internet and loads of logins. Keeping track of secure passwords is a pain and it's really easy to just be lazy and use a simple word. But lately I've been doing this: Seeing as some Scottish mountains are really tricky to spell (like Liathach, An Sgarsoch, etc) I use ...

Apparently you can download season 1 from here and season 2 from here but that may not be 100% legal

Milesy wrote:

davidmhodgey wrote:Climbing plastic blobs isnt much fun for me lol.

Fair doos! It's probably a lot more challenging than you think

Can I ask, what's the motivation behind your "maximum height" criteria? If it's just the boast factor of walking up a massive mountain I don't think height is better. Personally I wouldn't be that impressed by someone telling me they'd walked up Kilimanjaro. A degree of fitness, time off w...

I have come across dead sheep and deer several times in streams on the hills which is quite off putting. There's a gully to the SE of Ben Lawers full of dead sheep. Apparently they shelter in there from the snow then get blanketed and are unable to move. Shame. I notice the other sheepies didn't se...

If I was you I'd buy some of these cheap screen protectors too! I wish I did when I first bought it,

I was using "Trails" on my iPhone last year but ultimately the battery on a phone is pants and it's they're too delicate for Scottish weather