Blairgowrie & District Hillwalking Club
Library / Resources / Stories / Reports
This library is intended to provide the following:
- Downloadable copies of documents relevant to hillwalking in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format.
- Lists of useful leaflets and publications available either from the club or from bookshops / outdoor shops.
- Reports, stories etc. contributed by members of the club.
We welcome suggestions or recommendations for other items for inclusion
in this section.
| Mountaineering Council of Scotland - Leaflets and Information Sheets | |||
| There are a good number of Leaflets and Information sheets available from the MCofS site. These are usually in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format. You can download the latest Acrobat reader by clicking the logo on the right. |
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MCofS Leaflets and Information Sheets web page contains:
Leaflets: Avalanche Safety; Hillphones Project; Learn to Read or Get Lost (map & compass); Enjoy the Scottish Hills in Safety; Wild Camping; Where to 'Go' in the Great Outdoors (advice on sanitation in the hills); Freedom to Roam and Winter Essentials. Information sheets: Qualifications or Experience?; Nesting Birds and Climbing; The Crag Code; Freezing to Death (The dangers of hypothermia in the winter mountains); Rescue and Self-reliance; Weather Forecasts; Route Cards; Guidance to Mountaineers Receiving Professional Instruction; Modern Technology and Mountaineering and The place of mobile phones, radios and GPS devices in the mountains. The highlighted items are those that we consider are most important generally for hillwalkers throughout the year. |
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| Blairgowrie and District Hillwalking Club - Stories | |||
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This section contains stories and writings by members of the
Blairgowrie & District Hillwalking Club. These were initially
produced for the Silver Jubilee (25th Anniversary) in 2003. IMPORTANT: Copyright on all these stories remains with the writers. You may download the stories for your own reading. You may NOT include the stories in part or whole in any other publication whether printed or electronic. |
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| In the beginning.. (by Jane Clark). | |||
| Birthday (by Richard Gatehouse). | |||
| You do have to be mad. But it doesn't help. (by John Campbell). | |||
| Safety on Hills (comments on the clubs first hill safety page). | |||
| Watch me. I'm an expert! (by Richard Gatehouse). | |||
| The Camaraderie of the hills. (by Martin Collins). | |||
| Beinn Dearg revisited. | |||
| Blairgowrie and District Hillwalking Club - Documents | |||
| This section contains walk sheet templates, and any other documents produced by and for the Blairgowrie & District Hillwalking Club. | |||
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WalkTemplateRTF.zip - a zipped Microsoft RTF (Rich Text Format)
document for use as a template for the walk sheets. Includes the club logo
(club logo and template design is copyright the Blairgowrie & District
Hillwalking Club. This RTF version should work with all versions of Word from Word'97 onwards. Just unzip the document (it has a .rtf extension), open it in Word and Save As a Word document (rename it to WalkTemplate.doc). |
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WalkTemplate(W2000).zip - a zipped Microsoft Word 2000
document for use as a template for the walk sheets. Includes the club logo
(club logo and template design is copyright the Blairgowrie & District
Hillwalking Club. This version should work in Word 2000 onwards. |
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Glen Arna - Navigation and Mountain Hazard A home study pack for novices. |
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The Glen Arna home study pack is an excellent introduction for novices
to Hill Navigation and Mountain Hazard. However, experienced hillwalkers
will find something of interest and use in this publication as well.
Three copies of the Glen Arna book are held by the Blairgowrie and District Hillwalking Club and are available on loan to MEMBERS only. We also have Worksheets for the Navigation exercises in the book (these save people writing in the books themselves. To request a loan of a Glen Arna book and worksheet please contact James Tweedie during a meet or by email. |
Glen Arna is published by: SportScotland
and the Scottish Mountain Safety Group.
If you want your own copy... Glen Arna is available at the price of £6.00 plus £1.00 postage from: Mountaineering Council of Scotland The Old Granary West Mill St Perth, PH1 5QP Tel: 01738 638227 Fax: 01738 442095 |
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Short review: Glen Arna is based on a fictional Glen surrounded by a "horseshoe" ridge with two Munros and almost all the features you'd expect to find in Scottish hill terrain. It has a fold out, simplified, OS type map in the back cover with an "aerial" view of the area. Glen Arna comprises two main sections: The Navigation Exercises and Mountain Hazard. Navigation exercises: With the aid of the map and aerial view these take the reader in easy and logical stages from directions and grid references, through understanding and using contours to map and compass work and estimating time and distance. Exercises accompany each section (with answers given at the end of the Navigation part of the book). Where neccessary the answer section gives detailed explanations as to why and how the answers were reached - thus helping in understanding. The Mountain Hazard section presents a series of incidents (10 fictional and 6 real but transferred to Glen Arna) that take place in and around the Glen. The incidents are not completed and as part of the exercises the reader is asked to suggest possible outcomes and what mistakes were made and what the correct actions would have been. This section is very good at making the reader think and consider actions and their results. Indeed, although it is aimed at novices, it is a sobering reminder for those of us who have been walking for many years and we will all recognise one or more of the incidents which are given in the book. In summary - an excellent book. It should be read and completed by everyone who is hillwalking, especially those just starting. However, it is a worthy refresher course for more experienced walkers. Well worth the £6.00. Reviewed by James Tweedie. |
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| Addresses referred to in the above | |||
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Mountaineering Council of Scotland The Old Granary West Mill St Perth, PH1 5QP Tel: 01738 638227 Fax: 01738 442095 |
SportScotland Caledonia House South Gyle Edinburgh EH12 9DQ Tel: 0131 317 7200 |
The Scottish Mountain Safety Forum Part of the MCofS. Contact under same address. Consists of representatives of organisations directly involved in mountain safety. |
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Scottish Natural Heritage 12 Hope Terrace Edinburgh EH9 2AS Tel: 0131 447 4784 Fax: 0131 446 2277 |
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