Advice given to me as a young para 46 years ago."You are still here because you have the will to win.You will always get there.If you keep fit you will not overtax that will." Now GPS..especially if alone, very reassuring to get grid ref. When you are knackered and a bit worn out you sometimes see what you want to see.I can navigate but always take GPS on multi day walks.  Enjoy your walk.

I'd second that! Using a basic GPS to obtain map grid co-ordinates and transpose them onto a map is not rocket science. I always take a map, always take a compass, and when it comes to multi day or unknown terrain walks always also take a GPS.
You'll not ever regret taking any of the above!

And I've never regretted NOT taking a compass or GPS gadget !

LL, I see that you are up to your usual poor standard. You admit to be being a "miserable old git" when not using your brain to deliver letters - you are obviously not delivering letters. In addition your response to the message about the Mountain Rescue Service i.e. "Is Julia Bradbury presenting it?" just about sums up how you have made 1116 posts on this site. It would be interesting to see if any of them were helpful.

British LDP's are either well signposted or not. I for one find it more interesting to use a map to find the route, rather than rely on something that might be missing, like a signpost. I also think that walking from signpost to signpost detracts from the greater experience of finding your own way and lets not forget that Wainwrights C2C guide was meant to be just that a Guide to a way across the country. It was never meant to be a definitive route, rather just a basis of a direction for others to create their own route.
Dave.

well we used to make our own route.
we would plan a route, and we had no GPS and not much map reading skills.
(in fact i don't know whether the first time we went on the north york moors if any of us had a compas or not)
when we did eventualy get a map of the North York Moors, we would have a look at it and pick a route along the red lines and go and walk it, and as i have said before we got off course quite a lot. but i think it gave us experience. and after over 40 years of ramling i have walked in the lake district on my own in mist and never felt lost, maybe stray off course but one can generaly feel the way the wind is blowing and use that as a guide.
i know i shall get shot down, maybe i have been lucky

Harland. For new people on here thinking of doing a long distance walk all the comments about needing compass and GPS gadgets can be off-putting and I merely offered a different perspective on the matter. As for Julia Bradbury, several on here have made a number of comments on here about her and I just asked a question others will have thought. As for being a miserable old git you have exceeded my abilitities at that with this post.

Whilst Munro Baggin in all conditions in all areas of Scotland, we crry maps, compass and GPS. However as brilliant and experienced as we are at navigational skills, during the process of having a really good time we frequently go off route, with our most common one being, following the wrong ridge after topping out a Munro. The fun but hard work is then encountered getting back on route, which often means an unscheduled Corrie crossing. Having a good time really can cause problems up there, especially as we all seem to rely on the one in the lead knowing the way, which quite often is not the case. Off they go and we all follow like sheep, until eventually someone says something like "Seeing as this is a well used route, why is there no sign of a path?" Oh! if only we had looked at the map. Thats when you know everyone is enjoying themselves!
Dave.

Apart from doing the C2C and next year's White Rose Walk,I don't think the extent of my walking justifies getting a GPS. Having only done two walks this year,I don't think I can justify getting anything new towards walking.
A new job maybe with more guaranteed time off........I can only wish.
Nimrod

i will wish for you too
which way will you be doing the White Rose
and which route.
first time i attempted it, i was with J.C. Wilson and he had done it before. we were walking the short route through Chopgate and on to Wheat beck, we came to the Whitestone ( it was track made up of White stone) J.C. would have it that it was the drove road, well me , not knowing the area, looked at the map and told him we should turn left, as if it was the drove road and you come to it from east you must turn left. anyway after a lot of discussion we did turn left and finished up in Hawby,
it was not the drove road and if we had turned right we would have walked in a semi circle and come to the drove road.
i know others that have been mislead there as well.
all the best when you do the walks you have planned