Three Peaks Fell Race

[Brotherton Lad]

Have a skeg at the route on google earth. It is very easy to navigate and there will almost certainly be people around you. I suppose in the clag you could go wrong coming off Ingleborough (or you could fall into the Braithwaite Wife Hole on the way up).

[RichK]

yup, i read that weather report that make is sound like their might be poor visibility higher up - are there marshalls at all checkpoints?

haha - no chance of leading - my goal is try to not be time-eliminated and finish in one piece

thanks for the advice! just trying to program the map references into my garmin 310xt but they seem to be in a different format e.g 'Start/Finish SD805727' but my garming doesn't accept this format? Googling the way to convert it now, but if anyone knows - I'd hate to convert the coordinates wrong and follow my compass to somewhere completely different!

It's an OS grid reference, you need to convert to Lat Long:

http://www.movable-type.co.uk/script...g-gridref.html

[stubar]

It's an OS grid reference, you need to convert to Lat Long:

http://www.movable-type.co.uk/script...g-gridref.html

sorry for being a nuisance, but which numbers to I move to my Garmin as there isn't space for them all.


Enter latitude/longitude values or OS grid references into the test boxes to try out the calculations:

WGS84 Lat/Lon	54°09′00.7204″N		002°17′57.4178″W
OSGB36 Lat/Lon	54°09′00.1138″N		002°17′52.1632″W
OS Grid Ref	SD805727= 380550,472750

My Garming has the format
N 54°09.720'
W 002°17.417'

[RichK]

There's some info here which should help:

http://www.maptools.com/UsingLatLon/Formats.html

[RichK]

Or try a different converter. This one here:

http://www.nearby.org.uk/coord.cgi?p=SD805727

Gives the result in lat/long 54.149749 -2.300045 (WGS84)

I don't have that model, but I think garmins accept Lat/Long?

[RichK]

Sorry, I couldn't see for looking. On the last link I posted, you can see near the bottom under "copyable" they give the reference as decimal degrees and minutes, which is what you want:

54:8.98493N 2:18.00270W (ie N 54°08.985' , W 2°18.003')

So you would enter 54, 8 and 985 for North
2, 18 and 003 for the West.


Tip: go to google maps and enter N 54°08.985' , W 2°18.003 and it shows you the spot, so you can double check their calculations).

[stubar]

Or try a different converter. This one here:

http://www.nearby.org.uk/coord.cgi?p=SD805727

Gives the result in lat/long 54.149749 -2.300045 (WGS84)

I don't have that model, but I think garmins accept Lat/Long?

the only format I seem to be able to enter coordinates is e.g N 54°09'00.7 W 002°17'57.1 (i can change between 3 different types of this format, but this one seems to be the one I have made success with)

I just entered this and google mapped it and it points to the start position so I'm quite happy that this is good. Thanks

[RichK]

Just curious where the 59, 09, 007 came from? Are you entering the right numbers? It's not a big difference but we're getting different locations. For other grid references there could be a massive difference.

For SD805727, the location is somewhere in the field. Your location is landing on the road.

Take the north, the calculator gives this as 54 (degrees) 8 (minutes) 59.096 (seconds)

So this is either 54, 8, 59.096 if Garmin accepts degrees minutes seconds, or 54 (degrees), 8.985 (minutes) if it is just degrees and minutes (because 59.096 seconds is 0.985 of a minute)

Sorry everyone for hijacking the thread.

My running contribution: watch out for Shake Holes.

[Hes]

and bogs!

My running contribution: watch out for Shake Holes.

[Donkeyforth]

Bit worried about all this rain and want some advice on shoes. I'm thinking flippers at the moment!