Sam - as Matt says, the A-Z/spiral bound thing is already available. I drooled over it in Waterstones y/day but managed to resist for now :) It looked v. good, though, and if I didnt' already have about a 100 maps of the Lakes I'd have bought it in the twinkling of an eye.
Ok... as some of you know I am doing the Yorkshire 3 Peaks in August... there are two kind of suggestions on the paperwork I have been sent through for it...
Firstly the Harvey Superwalker: Yorkshire Dales (Three Peaks), or the OS 1:25,000 (though it doesn't say which one you need to buy am guessing if I opt for that I could figure that bit out afterwards lol)
Tis an organised event (as mentioned previously, I had a few mates who were phaffing about wanting to go but did but didn't so I found this, said if you're coming stick your name down, if you don't like it they'll drive you back when you get to X on the way round and it seems to have worked lol), and you need one of these maps in order to be let loose (wouldn't wanna go without one anyways really)
Has anyone got the HS map... what's it like? Does it only cover the three peaks or does it cover the surrounding area too?
Anyone know off the top of their head which OS map I'd need (and even if it's covered on one map as I know sometimes they like to be helpful like that and have two maps which overlap on the bit you want to look at lol)
You'll find the whole required area on OS 1:25k Outdoor Leisure No 2 "Yorkshire Dales: South and West".
I've got both and I regularly use both types depending where I'm going. I did the 3 Peaks last April though and I know I took the OS map.There's not a lot in it. I think the OS tends to be a little bit clearer on walls and tracks in the valleys, which can be handy. Harveys give a better idea of terrain underfoot (bog, tussock etc), but tbh on this route that isn't too much help - there are boggy bits coming off Penyghent towards Ribblehead which you won't avoid, and the route, in good visibility anyway, is fairly obvious on the ground.
Any reason to leave GPS out of the picture entirely, Brianetta, simply because you're confident with M&C? I'm never sure why people seem to see this as a one or the other issue.
Glad this thread was resurrected, because I'd missed that!
Simple grounds of cost. OK, so in the 2 and a half years since I posted that, prices have fallen, but not to the point where I've been tempted to buy into it.
Another reason to leave out GPS is because I can't take advantage of one of the greatest features: Electronic mapping. There are no realistic options for a Linux user, and I won't run Windows for a variety of reasons, mostly political.
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That way we have both and can decide on the day as it were...
