15th June 2010, 10:03 PM
Wax Wrote:All the fancy gizmos in the world will not help on a moor when the mist comes down and your batteries run out.
Still there are lots of keen walkers out here who have the knowledge, it is a shame that some of the basics do not appear to be part of university courses in archaeology (I may be wrong there, please tell me I am)
How right you are. It isn't exactly a very difficult skill to learn and it is easy to practice...
Bit like aerial photography after a good dry spell...you don't really need a satellite!
This is not to knock the huge step forward in what "Where's the Path" is and it's undoubted use. But is should be seen as another tool in the box to be used to assist queries, not replace common sense.
(Right, off to the bar...I sound distressingly like an Old Fogey...hope there is some Laphroaig left!)
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, Merlot in one hand, Cigar in the other; body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming "WOO HOO, what a ride!