I love reading maps, l've been known to read one in bed at times.
First thing I do if I go anywhere new is get a map of the area.
I've never used a gps always map and compass, saying that I don't often use either in the lakes when I'm out no matter what the weather just follow features
Me too OneHill Wonder!Originally Posted by OneHillWonder
I LOVE map reading.
I read maps in bed
I have a large selection of OS maps, favourite reading place for me as to be toilet at home. I often spend long periods sat on the throne perusing over a map and re-tracking a route navigated earlier that day! Map reading is cool!! As mentioned, lots of detail on a map that you could easily miss on a days walk without one!
The wife thinks I'm weird!
I love maps - but it's rather irritating how out of date the OS maps are.
Paths are the obvious problem - there are loads of major paths not on maps, and lots that have moved (a real problem when going across fields and it's the wrong side of the wall), and loads of permissive paths that aren't shown.
But then there's woods that have been planted or felled, reservoirs built or drained.
I even noticed that one of the streams on Kinder is in the wrong place! (West of the woolpacks - compare it with aerial photography).
I traversed the White Mountains in Crete a few years ago. In the hut on day one we met a German who showed off his GPS with great enthusiasm. He had digitised the route into the device back home before the trip using the best map he could find. Unfortunately the maps of Crete are rather more schematic than our OS maps and the waypoints were hundreds of metres out of place on the ground due to the inaccuracy of the map. He followed the GPS religiously instead of the map and had a real epic in the maquis, ending up in the wrong valley and having to return to the hut. The hut warden said he was the only one ever to get so completely lost.
We met him after the event, and he was still in love with his GPS. I would have binned it.
Aha!
See LOADS of people read maps in bed daz so there
as for porn, well I don't know anything about porn so there
Completely normal behaviour as far as I'm concerned.
When I first got into map reading I bought a fantastic book called Navigation for Walkers (Amazon Link to this Publication).
Its a cracking little book and it helped me master the art of map reading and using a compass.
Well worth a look at least!
A cracking little book it is! I bought it just to get a taster of the compass side of things really but it was useful in general.
I made only my second visit to the Lake District last month and armed with my compass and all four maps that I'd spent time reading before hand it was great to see various fells in the flesh, so to speak.
Now, when I look at the maps, the memories of the views I saw come flooding back.
Great stuff!
Maps have always been and still are pieces of art. Pouring over them is similar to reading a book. I think it is a man thing though because the wife still can't read the atlas in the car to let me know which juncton I should use and I know many other men who have found similar translation problems with their female partners - female fell runners excluded obviously!
There are times when I get paid for drawing/creating maps
Don't go as far as reading a map in bed (unless bed = sleeping bag) but a good map beats Sat night telly. How sad's that? Nearly bought a 1:25k map of Denali yesterday, not because I've any realistic propsect of using it, not given snow conditions in May, but simply because it looked fantasic.
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