Quote Originally Posted by RobW View Post
We thought so too. Followed the mapped track to its end, took a bearing towards the control (thick mist), counted paces from where we crossed the ridge path. This took us straight to the wrong re-entrant facing NE not NW. Headed W checking a few more re-entrants. Hit a fence, no fence on map, gone too far, back tracked, attacked the control from another direction, refound same wrong re-entrant, worked round the slope a few 100m and hey presto, deep re-entrant facing NW, just beyond the unmapped fence. From this we concluded (1) the first track probably goes a fair bit further round than the map suggests and (2) don't expect mapping of fences by Stirling Surveys to be very complete.

Well you did ask! Quite a few other teams had a bit of fun with this one, but not as much fun as we did!
In every MM my biggest fear is messing up the first checkpoint. It has happened so many times, we now warn each other to be particularly careful.
Yiannis