http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-14735364

Technology does make it extremely easy to navigate and get to a mental note of the landscape using Google Earth. Even GPS waypoint routes can be transferred to GPS as someone has already done the hard work.

http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/lochlomond/ben-lomond.shtml#profile

http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/lochlomond/profiles/ben-lomond.kmz

The wooded area where the walkers were rescued from would be about 500-600m from the path running along side Loch Lomond and another 500-600m back to the car park. Spooked by an adder then calling on a cellular phone to SAR to get them out of trouble is pretty dumb as Ben Lomond isn't exactly a difficult place to get lost.



The wooded gully just right of the waterfall

Using technology to stop getting ones self into trouble rather than using technology to get out of trouble (calling for help via PLB, cellular phone etc ) would be the smart and less embarrassing thing to do.


Edited by Am_Fear_Liath_Mor (09/15/11 06:41 PM)