We have been given 3 copies of Scotland’s Mountain Ridges and 2 copies of Walks and Scrambles in Norway to give away in a free competition. In the following article Chris Craggs takes a look at two new books and at the end of the review are two easy questions.
In reply to Alan James - UKC:
"Ordinance Survey 1:50,000 maps have been used throughout (though for Skye the 1:25,000 is recommended as being more appropriate)"
Strange - I can't think of anything less appropriate for Skye than the totally unusable OS 1:25,000!
A good % of the entries so far obviously haven't read the question properly!
Chris
rich16 May 2006
In reply to Chris Craggs: i went on a course with Plas Y Brenin in Scotland on which they argued that for scotland mountains the level combination of the level of detail on 25s combined with the terrain made them problematic for navigation and that the contours on 50s were much better at giving you the shape of the land which is more useful in country where you have less fence lines and other such features - something like that anyway
luke_brown16 May 2006
Yes I was told a similar thing on my winter mountaineering course. We used the 1:50,000 maps as they show the shape of the terrain better than the 1:25,000 which are too detailed.
In reply to luke_brown: How can a map be too detailed surely the more detailed the better? I've got a 1:25000 for the cairngorms and it's much better than the 1:50000
In reply to Alasdair Fulton:
I would scan in sections of the various maps so you can see for yourself - but the OS are notoriously litigious about such things, so get yourself down to Waterstones and have a look...
In reply to mik: In general, yes, 1:50,000 is better on mountains. But for the Cuillin I think the reverse is true. Having said that, Harvey's is more user friendly than either; usually I prefer the OS, but not on Skye. But who needs a map really anyway? Best method of navigation on the Cuillin is to smell your way along - it's the only way to do it in the cloud.
I made an incorrect entry (oo er missus!) and then read the question properly as you suggested and have now made a second, hopefully correct this time, entry.
In reply to Norrie Muir: Probably not your thing anyway Norrie. You'd probably think it was a book of walks and easy descent routes, and stuffed with sensationalist waffle. But thanks for the good wishes!
> (In reply to Norrie Muir) Probably not your thing anyway Norrie. You'd probably think it was a book of walks and easy descent routes, and stuffed with sensationalist waffle. Dear dan
You are probably right, if, you included any quality of Scotland’s Mountain’s ridges, I would have done them, no matter how easy/hard they were. I prefer the real thing rather than reading about it.
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