by ceaser » Wed Jan 30, 2013 10:41 pm
in my case ,ive recently got a GPS , garmin etrex 10..i set the WH route into it ,but when we got to a particular point in the route ,it didnt look safe in the snow ,so we changed route ,unfortunately i still havent worked out how to get the grid ref on it ,if i had ,we could have worked out exactly where we were ,we knew roughly where we were in the whiteout ,but there were crags round about us on either side , we didnt want to walk around blindly ,so we took the decision to get the bothy bag out and see if the weather was going to pass...it wasnt.
i couldnt set new waypoints for our changed route in ,because it wasnt that great a route either ,we were planning on coming down on the other side of the hill.
lessons learned ..i should have learned how to work my GPS better
it was tough going in the walk in and we had to change route ,adding on extra time ,we knew we were pushing it for time (but we had head torches ) went for the 2nd munro ( which was really tough going /energy sapping ) ...we probably should have turned back after the first .