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Ash
24/08/11 22:28
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Does anyone know what the "proper" route is for the Fan Dance as done by various military types?  I know it starts at the Storey Arms, up and over Corn Du and PYF, drops down on the eastern side of the Upper Neuadd reservoir to the turnaround point at Torpantau station followed by the trek back the same way to the Storey Arms.  The total route is supposed to be 24km but my memory map suggests closer to 22km.  Am I missing a detour somewhere?
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Jake
24/08/11 22:49
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Well, I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you...
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Mr Sworld
25/08/11 00:33
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I thought the 'fan dance' covered tits and fanny...
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Jester*
25/08/11 11:27
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I have left a copy of the route in a 35mm film container under a stone next to the boat house at Hereford.

Read it, memorise it and destroy it.

Under no circumstances post it as a trip report.

Good luck. 

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Jake
25/08/11 12:43
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Jester* wrote (see)

I have left a copy of the route in a 35mm film container under a stone next to the boat house at Hereford.

What colour is the boathouse?

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Wurz
25/08/11 16:26
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Well according to Wiki :Don't look it's secret I make it 11.8km 1 way in MM.
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Metric Kate
25/08/11 16:30

There are always going to be discrepancies between the 'real' distance / ascent / descent etc. and that Memory Map claims.

On the N.York Moors meet this weekend, my gps said we'd climbed 953m, G's over 1000, Memory Map a measly 780 or so.

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Martin Carpenter
25/08/11 17:24

Although I'd half expect MM to be overestimating up/down and underestimating distance. After all its made up from a bunch of straight lines, some of which aren't always entirely rational on the ground

(doing a 3D fly through can be quite um, exciting?, sometimes.).

But I guess if you divert.

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huskyman
25/08/11 19:46
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Most civilian GPS aren't as accurate as Forces ones, (even they can be inaccurate, but not as much), if you look at 'main' screen you will most likely see an "accuracy" reading of some where between 10 to 35m+ . So the distance will never be the same even for the same trip.

 As for hight GPS can't measure hight correctly unless you have a lot of sattilites accessing the GPS, for an example, as an bit of fun I 'measured' the height ABS of my house twice a day for a week. The height could differ by up 40m each way, even on the same day.

 Iwouldn't 'go' by heights from a GPS, a map will be more accurate.

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