No. It's shyte for off road riding around me. mostly Flat arable land. Not many BWs or byways. Nice lanes around but I prefer off road sadly.
Definitely not enough to keep me interested for long on the OS maps I live on.
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No. It's shyte for off road riding around me. mostly Flat arable land. Not many BWs or byways. Nice lanes around but I prefer off road sadly.
Andy at backcountry.scot started a beerienteering club during early lockdown. Basically, we hide a can of beer somewhere, take a photo of the location then post it on our Facebook Group. Maybe add a wee clue. That made folk look for new places and seek out some that other folk had used. Despite thinking I'd been up every local path and track, it's led me to find a few new spots.
Kind of reminds me of this by David Nash:
Some folk in a Facebook group I'm in started doing that, and I thought it was a great idea, but they were a bit far from me for just popping out and they always got found really quickly.ScotRoutes wrote: ↑Thu Nov 12, 2020 9:03 am Andy at backcountry.scot started a beerienteering club during early lockdown. Basically, we hide a can of beer somewhere, take a photo of the location then post it on our Facebook Group. Maybe add a wee clue. That made folk look for new places and seek out some that other folk had used. Despite thinking I'd been up every local path and track, it's led me to find a few new spots.
Clearly I need to think bigger. Perhaps the answer is more beer (I've always suspected).ScotRoutes wrote: ↑Thu Nov 12, 2020 1:44 pm We have between 20 and 40 beers out at any given time. That's in the Strath between Newtonmore and Grantown.
We play that on the Island, it works really well here as we have very fixed geographical limits to define the areathenorthwind wrote: ↑Thu Nov 12, 2020 12:24 pm There's also a "tag" thread that I started in our club group that's been running for a couple of years now, with periodic bouts of activity - similar premise to the above, but when you find the location, you take another photo at another location, and that becomes the challenge for the next person.
You live in Wales remember Stu... I've got 3 maps which I overlap (well used to and sometime do just to get the bigger picture, all my mappings now in Viewranger you see) just to get a decent space away from the population. Bit rubbish but has to/had to be done...Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Tue Nov 10, 2020 10:09 am I'm struggling with the idea that this is something 'new'. Doesn't everyone spend large amounts of time exploring the area covered by the OS map of where they live?
Years ago I saw a site where you could specify an area of 1:25 or 1:50 and they'd print it on a shower curtain for you. Wasn't too expensive either... Always tried to look for it (years later) and possibly should've bought it when I had the chance.voodoo_simon wrote: ↑Thu Nov 12, 2020 8:04 am One thing that helps me to explore new areas is to frame my map in the house. The kitchen has the Clwydian range framed and it’s great to look for new routes etc without having to consciously go to the book shelves and open up a map.
Also did the above at uni and it certainly opened up some beautiful roads around the Bowland area
OS wallpaper! I like the sound of that but think it can be done with a normal OS map, patience, paste and even more patienceredefined_cycles wrote: ↑Fri Nov 13, 2020 12:57 amYears ago I saw a site where you could specify an area of 1:25 or 1:50 and they'd print it on a shower curtain for you. Wasn't too expensive either... Always tried to look for it (years later) and possibly should've bought it when I had the chance.voodoo_simon wrote: ↑Thu Nov 12, 2020 8:04 am One thing that helps me to explore new areas is to frame my map in the house. The kitchen has the Clwydian range framed and it’s great to look for new routes etc without having to consciously go to the book shelves and open up a map.
Also did the above at uni and it certainly opened up some beautiful roads around the Bowland area
Having a custom wallpaper printed in OS. Now there's an idea (might be expensive and I believe someone on here had a link to a place that will print you an A3 or A2 poster with your area of map on it...
Yes... it was your frame that inspired me to (just thinking about as the wife rules) thinking about it. Maybe one day...
That reminds me that I always thought when I bought a house I'd wallpaper at least one wall with OS maps. I bought a house about a year ago, and have done lots of useless stuff like fixing plumbing and putting shelves up. Time I corrected this...
Haha, my lowest point is 2m (yes, I did write 2! I live on the Somerset Levels).ScotRoutes wrote: ↑Sat Nov 14, 2020 10:16 pm Oh, good game.
Explorer OL57.
Lowest point - River Spey at Broomhill Station - 199m
Highest point - Ben Macduibh - 1309m
Remotest point - how are you defining remote? Might be Loch Avon for me.
Here you goredefined_cycles wrote: ↑Fri Nov 13, 2020 12:57 am
Years ago I saw a site where you could specify an area of 1:25 or 1:50 and they'd print it on a shower curtain for you. Wasn't too expensive either... Always tried to look for it (years later) and possibly should've bought it when I had the chance.
Having a custom wallpaper printed in OS. Now there's an idea (might be expensive and I believe someone on here had a link to a place that will print you an A3 or A2 poster with your area of map on it...