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I tried WhatsApp once for showing Rudolph where I was on a snowpatch hunt on the North York Moors. It was worse than useless and placed me in a pub a few miles away! And it emptied my battery. So don't use that! Phone locators are built-in and will have the least battery drain; on Google it's "...

simon-b wrote:Hi Martin. At least they all walked up there rather than some coming on a train like Snowdon.

I'm convinced there's a viable business in giving people piggy-back-rides up mountains, but I'm not sure I'm the one to do it.

In fairness GG do seem to have a fairly comprehensive coverage map and it does show a lot of blank spots in hilly places.

https://www.giffgaff.com/coverage-checker

One piece of walking etiquette that perhaps should be introduced these days. Walkers on a multiple summit route, eg the Ben via CMD, Welsh 3000 footers, etc shouldn't have to wait in 45 minute queues of selfie takers on the popular summits. People who've just arrived from, say, CMD arête or Crib Go...

A case for the local Access Officer.

The toilet tissue is about not having chemicals in it and being highly biodegradable. Coghlans, Kampa, etc. are all known brands. Amazon, EBay, etc., can help you out if your local outlet can't. Its relatively expensive but it's only for occasional use not your day-to-day business. Note that "b...

My dog-tent is not ultralight but at 2.5kg it's not impossibly onerous either, it's the Naturehike Cloud-Peak 2. I'd be wary about it in exposed and windy conditions though. It's a cave. Massive. If I unclip the inner I can can sit in a camping chair inside whilst the weather pours down. A more robu...

The point of off-trail paths or off-trail generally is very few people will do anyway, so the numbers aren't high enough to do significant damage. I was clambering up a face a few weeks ago, kind of following a GPX trail on my phone, and got lost... because the path I was supposed to take forked up ...

Interesting wee development locally to this, up by Mugdock Country Park a scene of locked gates and notices to deter folks from crossing into 'farmed land' owned by 'The Estate'. Breaking news, probably worthy of it's own thread, I'll need to find out exactly what's being discouraged and to what de...

I'd stick to Arrochar. Yes a really pleasant train ride goes there, but busses stop too. I returned from my East-to-West Cowal Way traipse to Arrochar and got the bus home. If you're looking for a bit of extra challenge consider bagging the Corbett Beinn Bheula along the way, three extra miles but a...

Consider getting a spirit burner, they're cheap and meths can be got everywhere.

In addition to the main GPX files the site hosts on the individual hills and routes, also look at people's individual walk reports. If they have done a route that you like, one perhaps not in the site's database, quite often they'll have uploaded a GPX route (you'll know if you see a map as part of ...

I've had two ticks in my life one of them was at the Narnain, albeit the overgrown "southern path" not the main tourist track.

Use Permethrin on your clothes and take tick twisters. You can't give up your life for the blighters.

Yes, there is strong evidence of person-to-person aerosol indoor transmission, in fact that's the main vector by far. I was specifically responding to someone going into an empty bothy and being worried about surface contact transmission. It was that and only that I want to link the evidence for, na...

@marty_jg I agree that closing bothies will probably do all of nothing to stop spread of covid. However, the MBA are responsible for making the decision as to whether to open them or not. At the moment, the decision that government guidance says not to open them, so they're not opening them. I resp...

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