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Lizzie Whizz Jan 2022 8:07pm, 16 Jan 2022 26,130 posts	Quote Pin Lizzie Whizz [noted, thanks NE/flanker]
Dvorak Jan 2022 8:59pm, 16 Jan 2022 24,223 posts	Quote Pin Dvorak My basic (Garmin) watch doesn't show GPS on the go, but from the downloads, whilst it's generally good enough, not sure that I'd want to totally rely on information from similar in a mission-critical situation. I'd hope that I would have the observational ability not to, say, wander over a cliff edge because I was blindly following my Garmin, but ...* The couple of times I have used something it has been the AllRoutes app on my phone and it's worked pretty well, although it was only to tell me where I was along a path, or what fork to take, rather than serious navigation. *IRL, I'm highly unlikely to be adventurous enough for that to be a live situation.
flanker Jan 2022 9:03pm, 16 Jan 2022 20,283 posts	Quote Pin flanker You don't need a watch for that, you need Trail Magazine's Ben Nevis route!
quimby Jan 2022 10:53pm, 16 Jan 2022 5,250 posts	Quote Pin quimby Speaking of magazine routes, it was a Go Outdoors route I followed on Monday, in Derwent Valley. For a good portion of it, I was following the actual path, with the OS Maps app telling me I was off course. The course was following a path which was green on the map. No sign of it on the ground. Exactly what flanker was saying a couple of pages ago.
flanker Jan 2022 1:43am, 17 Jan 2022 20,284 posts	Quote Pin flanker So someone published a route having never walked it. Happens a lot, unfortunately. Just because there's a historical RoW doesn't mean there's still a viable path.
Badger Jan 2022 6:58am, 17 Jan 2022 14,661 posts	Quote Pin Badger Sometimes there never was. Some of the ROWs were mapped by descriptions by users or landowners which didn't match where people actually walked, drove sheep or whatever else. One of the things a nav course I did went into - watching out for places where the os map shows there is no path where the ROW goes.
3M (aka MarkyMarkMark) Jan 2022 10:35am, 17 Jan 2022 17,161 posts	Quote Pin 3M (aka MarkyMarkMark) I got caught out by one of those fairly recently across a reclaimed piece of farmland (formerly a river marsh!). Annoyingly I could see where the path continued on the far diagonal side of the field, but the actual OS marked RoW was ploughed under the fairly new field - and the "replacement" route was a quagmire around the edge of the field (which obviously has a drainage ditch around it, but is pretty wet in winter!). Not sure what more the farmer/landowner could have done, except reinstate the original path which would have been on marginally higher ground. (Given the latest sea-level rise predictions for the area, I suspect it all might be irrelevant within a few years. )
rf_fozzy Jan 2022 10:40am, 17 Jan 2022 16,231 posts	Quote Pin rf_fozzy Informal "redirections" of footpaths across farming land is pretty standard. Blocking of them is also not uncommon.
Bazoaxe Jan 2022 10:42am, 17 Jan 2022 21,807 posts	Quote Pin Bazoaxe 3M, you have just reminded me of a dream I had last night ! I think it came from a thought I had yesterday after I raced a 10k on the Promenade at Cramond. As I ran away with reports of the weekend Tsunami in my mind I was thinking that for as long as I can remember there has been no noticeable change in the sea level here, albeit there have been occassional very high tides. Anyway, in my dream I was racing Edinburgh parkrun which is on the same promenade. Approaching the finish with a good time in sight, all of a sudden the tide was coming in and fast and covering the route and I had to finish the parkrun by swimming the last 20 metres or so.
3M (aka MarkyMarkMark) Jan 2022 10:52am, 17 Jan 2022 17,164 posts	Quote Pin 3M (aka MarkyMarkMark) That's a nightmare, Bazoaxe! But does the parkrun go over the Causeway? That'd be kind of cool.... although challenging, like your dream.