Saturday. After a waking up in a carpark in the Van at Lancaster services on the M1, for some inexplicable reason - probably not unrelated to a stressful and exhausting week at work,  I had a go at the Three Peaks today. Rather foolishly this was immediately after the well subscribed 3 Peaks Race which left nothing but 2 feet of mud all the way round. Great stuff if you needed to do Quadriceps exercise, leg lifting was the game for the day - beautiful weather and views despite a rainy misty start meant it wasn't all in vain.  - but a good finishing time was not on the cards at all.

A warming chat and full breakfast with the friendly owners of the Horton in Ribblesdale cafe, a new night time Silva compass and a Harveys map meant all started and went well - only leg wrenching terrain underfoot dampened the whole exercise... hard work but well earnt tea at the Fourth Peak and some happy memories to boot.

REVIEW

For additional mental challenge I reviewed the SatMap Active 10 lent to me by my good friends at UKMountain biker. Some simple conclusions in summary: Sat Map device is excellent - best in class - robust - weatherproof and easy to use - love it. Clever tracking allows you to plot routes and keep a track of where you've been BUT a good map and compass are much faster to pull out and put away in a small pocket when your hands are full, covered in cack or required to prevent you from a quagmire drowning.

I look forward to using it on a MTB forest trail where I suspect it will be a fine companion. Thanks Ade.

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