hiking maps online Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/hiking-maps-online Sat, 21 Oct 2017 19:10:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Hiking Trails Maps http://toursmaps.com/hiking-trails-maps.html http://toursmaps.com/hiking-trails-maps.html#respond Sat, 30 Dec 2017 21:24:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=244954 Outdoor gear assistants will refer to this as the ‘wicking effect’: the transfer of moisture from your body to the outside elements. They may turn their noses up at this for two reasons. First, being in the stressful location of an outdoor gear shop may cause your body to ‘wick’ your own natural aroma around the shop. Second, the assistants don’t actually sweat themselves. They are so fit that breaking into a mild perspiration hasn’t happened to them since they hiked from John o’Groats to Land’s End one wet Wednesday afternoon. The mid-layer looks more like ordinary clothing. It comes

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]]> http://toursmaps.com/hiking-trails-maps.html/feed 0 Hiking Maps http://toursmaps.com/hiking-maps.html http://toursmaps.com/hiking-maps.html#respond Sat, 02 Dec 2017 23:16:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=244709 NORTH, NORTH AND NORTH Never cry, ‘Which way is north?’ because hikers will realise that you are not really ‘one of them’. When you want to know which way north is, you must make it clear to which north you are referring. Why have one, when you could have three? Magnetic north This is the north that the little red needle in your compass will point to. Unfortunately, magnetic north doesn’t stay still. The magnetic north pole was first discovered in 1831. When explorers went back in 1904 they found that it had moved by more than 48km (30 miles).

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