Quote Originally Posted by IainR View Post
Yes but you are making an unknown decision.. how far off is someone? They may think they are on the route, yet in reality searching a piece of hillside way off the route..

Look at Jura? Wasn't it Rob Jebb who ended up at the back of the island?

We've had a few in North Wales return to the start of the race in Landrovers...
I remember the first time i went up Skiddaw from the Bassenthwaite side. I spent about 3/4hr wandering a hillside trying to work out if i was on the side of Skiddaw or not. Turned out i was below Carl Side and had mistakenly picked up a trod to nowhere. The confusion i was feeling seems silly now, but you have to cut your teeth in the real world on a nice clear summers afternoon in order to develop your skills; you have to learn to walk before you can run.

Half of learning to navigate is placing yourself in relation to topographical features i think, and that can't really be taught. When i look at a landscape now i see it as contour lines and legend, it's like Neo seeing The Matrix.