20th August. Ascent of Slioch

If one is prepared to remove ones trousers one can steal a march on other walkers following various guide books to the letter. Personally I refer to the SMC Guide Book to the Northern Highlands published 1936, price 7/6. But anyway rowing across Loch Maree proved unecessary and ill advised because Mrs B's father's boat was a little on the large side as far as manhandling goes. Hence the wading across the river solution. Low cloud and mist meant that there was some doubt as to whether or not the summit was the summit, when eventually arrived at or not. Thankfully I'd remembered to bring my glasses with me (Tesco £5.97) and was able to read the map which showed that there should be a triangulation point where there was just a pile of stones. These so called trig points date back to an era of surveying by men in tweeds carrying instruments to the top of mountains, now its all done by spy satellites and presumably computer geeks.

How long will it be before they bring out THE LARGE PRINT VERSION OF THE 1:50000 ORDNANCE SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN? There must be a growing market what with an ageing but leisure rich population with varying levels of macular degeneration. Maybe they do a large print GPS the size of a laptop?