Thoughts on Navigation ~ Map and their Makers
Thoughts on Navigation ~ Map and their Makers Some maps are better suited to your purpose than others but any map is better than none at all! You're bound to…
Navigation & Skills
Thoughts on Navigation ~ Map Reading
Thoughts on Navigation ~ Map ReadingApart from route finding, map reading is the key skill underlying all navigation on terra firma. Relative novices learning navigation skills will often concentrate on…
Thoughts on Navigation ~ Route finding
Thoughts on Navigation ~ Route finding Arguably, the most important skill in mountain navigation has nothing to do with maps! It's a skill called route finding, after all people have…
Thoughts on Navigation ~ Existing Resources
Thoughts on Navigation - Existing Resources I'm glad to say that a good many people have our maps and report that they find them of interest and use. Doubtless this…
Mer de Glace
Mer de Glace & global warming Global warming is in the news a lot these days and one of the oft quoted pieces of 'evidence' is the retreat of the…
Brown Lines
Brown Lines What are the ‘brown lines’ on maps by EastWest Mapping? We use three line symbols for boundaries/ linear features on our maps ~ in green, black & brown.…
Rescuing Sheep
If you wander the hills, farmland or forest at all, you must eventually come across farm animals that are in a spot of bother. You could walk past thinking someone…
Carlow Walking Festival
The Carlow Walking Festival takes place over the last weekend of the month – from 30th September to the 2nd October. There will be a variety of hillwalks and rambles…
Weather Maps Part 4
Last in this short series on weather maps & forecasts. To recap on previous: Air circulates (wind direction) in anticlockwise way around Low areas of pressure and in a clockwise…
Weather Maps Part 3
Have you ever been out on the hills in fairly mild wet, misty conditions to then experience a heavy belt of rain followed shortly by a sudden clearance to clearer,…