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Pennine Way Route – .gpx

Pennine Way Route

Pennine Way Route gpx file is available on the Downloads page. This route was created using Memory Map on my laptop and then used in the field on my smartphone – read more about my backpacking tech here.

This English National Trail connects Edale to Kirk Yetholm crossing the backbone of the country, passing through a number of National Parks. Near Keld it also crosses Wainwright’s Coast to Coast path.

Fifty Years of the Pennine Way

Pennine Way Route

Free Downloads

I have a selection routes, in GPX format and a lightweight backpacking gear list  spread sheet available for free download – see here.

Loading gpx Files into Memory Map on the iPhone

Read my article – here – on how I keep my Memory Map files in Microsoft OneDrive so they are available on my iPhone.

 

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Southern Upland Way- .gpx file

I have added a plot of the Southern Upland Way to my Download page – the file is the standard .gpx format so it is useable in a wide range of GPS units and applications. I am usiing it in Memory Map and on my iPhone.

There were some problems plotting the route on my 50k OS map – at the following locations – the route was not clear on the map.

  • Caldons Wood
  • Sanquhar
  • Wanlockhead
  • Sweetshaw Brae
  • Beatnock
  • Galashiels
  • Abbey St Bathans

If you use this route you will have to take care over those sections.

I plotted the route to skirt Glengaber Hill.

This is a walk I am planning to undertake in the summer of 2013. The plan at this time is to take fourteen days, carry lightweight camping gear and to stay in a mixture of campsites, wild camping and bed and breakfasts. Carrying food as required and resupplying along the route.

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BBC News – Faster-than-light neutrino experiment to be run again

BBC News – Faster-than-light neutrino experiment to be run again.

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So it looks like we will not be changing “all our science” in the near future, because someone or something (other than Star Trek) beat the speed of light,. Of course if the same results are recorded again, things may change.

If Einstein’s iconic work is discredited, what does this mean for the people who have PhD qualifications based on work that is now no longer valid? Do they have to give them back? How does that affect their standing in the eyes of students who they are now teaching and assessing?

Science – nothing but questions!

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