Jenny Graham has just been on another madcap adventure - walking the longest straight line between two public roads in the UK.





That's a hoor of an amount of climbing!!

https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/newsro ... ing-a-road

Just seen that this morning on the news - crazy tough!

Inspired by Geowizard’s YouTube videos? He did a straight line across the whole of Scotland… no Cairngorms but he did have to sneak through a plywood factory and across a high-speed rail line, which I don’t think impressed McPlod.

A mention on the Beeb too ..

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58400061

I don't get it

I know lots of the things "we" do are "pointless" and happily embrace it but this just seems a bit ...... er .... mleh.

arkay wrote: ↑Wed Sep 01, 2021 8:22 am Inspired by Geowizard’s YouTube videos?

Seems to have been inspired by a blog post on the Ordnance Survey website:
https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/newsro ... ing-a-road

NewRetroTom wrote: ↑Wed Sep 01, 2021 10:51 am

arkay wrote: ↑Wed Sep 01, 2021 8:22 am Inspired by Geowizard’s YouTube videos?

Seems to have been inspired by a blog post on the Ordnance Survey website:
https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/newsro ... ing-a-road

"So for Great Britain, the longest straight line that you can walk without having to stop, look and listen is 71.5km or 44.43 miles (71500.817767m)"

Nice of them to quote it to the nearest micrometre - I had no idea the OS were that accurate!

And they were also wrong. Jenny and Calum had to walk an extra few km before hitting a tarmac road.

ScotRoutes wrote: ↑Wed Sep 01, 2021 12:29 pm And they were also wrong. Jenny and Calum had to walk an extra few km before hitting a tarmac road.

Theory and practice.

arkay wrote: ↑Wed Sep 01, 2021 8:22 am Inspired by Geowizard’s YouTube videos? He did a straight line across the whole of Scotland… no Cairngorms but he did have to sneak through a plywood factory and across a high-speed rail line, which I don’t think impressed McPlod.

the geowizard videos are great - Wales and Norway particularly good, but the Scotland attempt felt like a massive and possibly deliberate balls-up. Going to Scotland smack in the middle of the lockdown when cross border travel was verboten, having a huge campfire on a farmer's land after having been spotted at least twice by the landowners up there.

would have all been fine if they hadn't lit the place up like 1666, and could have easily moved round the corner out of the way as well once they'd been spotted. they practically invited the police to boot them off the land and were fortunate not to get fined. wild camping in scotland isn't difficult as we all know, and it felt like really thick behaviour to me considering all the effort (caching supplies etc) and micro-planning that apparently went into the route. made wild campers look like idiots, which was particularly unwelcome ahead of another summer of friction between campers and locals in places like Scotland.

Still - the Wales one where he doesn't know what he's doing yet is a proper laugh, excellent content!

arkay wrote: ↑Wed Sep 01, 2021 11:21 am Nice of them to quote it to the nearest micrometre - I had no idea the OS were that accurate!

{pedant mode} accurate vs precise.

They were very precise, but wildly inaccurate - as ScotRoutes says they were a few km out based on the definition of a paved road being one with tarmac on it.

I tried this through the local park as the running was too hard. 0.7 miles and I failed... Hard going

redefined_cycles wrote: ↑Fri Sep 03, 2021 2:45 pm I tried this through the local park as the running was too hard. 0.7 miles and I failed... Hard going

Ha could be the basis of a new challenge. Cycling in a dead straight line between two points

To quote Calum (Jenny`s co walker)
" I`m happy I`ve done it but wouldn`t do it again"
Sound like fun of the type 2 variety! ... and most of the stupid things that I have thought were a good idea!

htrider wrote: ↑Fri Sep 03, 2021 5:38 pm

redefined_cycles wrote: ↑Fri Sep 03, 2021 2:45 pm I tried this through the local park as the running was too hard. 0.7 miles and I failed... Hard going

Ha could be the basis of a new challenge. Cycling in a dead straight line between two points

Phil... i already started it. Was gonna make the thread here but wasn't sure. I called it the DSAM (dead straight a month) challenge

htrider wrote: ↑Fri Sep 03, 2021 5:38 pm
Ha could be the basis of a new challenge. Cycling in a dead straight line between two points

I know of one such attempt:

http://korzonek.info/ppr2016/relacja/

I think he deviated a little, one km away from dead straight line, but still, quite an achievement.
Marcin

marcinski wrote: ↑Tue Sep 07, 2021 8:55 pm

htrider wrote: ↑Fri Sep 03, 2021 5:38 pm
Ha could be the basis of a new challenge. Cycling in a dead straight line between two points

I know of one such attempt:

http://korzonek.info/ppr2016/relacja/

I think he deviated a little, one km away from dead straight line, but still, quite an achievement.
Marcin

Excellent! Particularly the bit where he's in the cheapo dingy towing the bike on a rubber ring! (he could have used his spare tube though )