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?
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.).
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.