I cut my teeth with my collection of OS maps during the early days of my fell walking career, there is many a photograph of me with my trusted OL4 ect,ect – folded neatly within my trouser thigh pocket.
In most cases the explorer series come in 1:25 scale which offers much more ground detail than the sketchier 1:50 of which most G.P.S’s are programmed including my own. My collection of maps are like photographs of my family, some are so sacred from those special first walks, some are so cut up they are held together with Selotape, battered by the wind and rain from walks gone by, never leave for the hills without one. |