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Hiking Mag publishes trail route that would lead off a cliff
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Posted on 01/22/2004 2:07:51 PM PST by jmcclain19
A Good Way to Lose Subscribers...
Thu Jan 22, 8:44 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - A hiking magazine apologized on Thursday after it published a route plan that would have sent walkers striding into thin air off the north face of Britain's largest mountain, Ben Nevis.
The magazine, Trail, missed out a vital bearing needed to guide climbers off the summit of the Scottish mountain in bad weather.
Anyone who had followed the magazine's directions would have plunged down a sheer cliff into nearby Gardyloo Gully.
Editor Guy Procter, himself a keen hillwalker, said that Trail published 200 routes every year and had never made a similar mistake before.
"I should have picked it up at the final proofreading stage, but unfortunately it slipped through," he told Reuters. The error was spotted by the Mountaineering Council of Scotland, which published a warning about the "dangerous bearing" on their Web Site.
Procter said he was confident his readers always carried maps while hill-walking and would therefore immediately notice the error.
TOPICS: News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: hiking; oddlyenough; oops; outdoors
Whoops...
To: jmcclain19
Quick!! Send a copy of that map to the dnc.
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posted on
01/22/2004 2:08:59 PM PST
by
Howie66
("America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.")
To: jmcclain19
Just like in the cartoons, you'll be o.k. as long as you don't know your walking on air.
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posted on
01/22/2004 2:12:08 PM PST
by
steveo
(Do you know what kind of a bomb it was? The exploding kind.)
To: CapandBall
Hiking ping
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posted on
01/22/2004 2:30:14 PM PST
by
m1911
To: jmcclain19
Note to self: Always look to make sure trail acually exists before taking next step.
To: jmcclain19
Hiking Mag publishes trail route that would lead off a cliff That's bad, isn't it?
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posted on
01/22/2004 2:33:32 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(Socialism is Slavery)
To: jmcclain19
Can ya na see where y're going, laddie. Here, have another sip of my Macallan! Burp! Opppppps!
To: jmcclain19
It isn't the people yelling at them for this that they mind, it's the ones whose yelling stops reeeeeal suddenly...
To: jmcclain19
I've been up Ben Nevis a couple of times. Wouldn't want to fall off it.
To: jmcclain19
As they say in that neck of the woods... "oh nooooooo!"
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posted on
01/22/2004 3:51:39 PM PST
by
GOP_1900AD
(Un-PC even to "Conservatives!" - Right makes right)
To: jmcclain19
Anyone who had followed the magazine's directions would have plunged down a sheer cliff into nearby Gardyloo Gully.....which is filled with tremendous peril.
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posted on
01/22/2004 3:52:54 PM PST
by
Petronski
(I'm *NOT* always *CRANKY.*)
To: m1911
Ben Nevis?
if it's not Scottish, it's crap.
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posted on
01/22/2004 7:22:35 PM PST
by
CapandBall
(tag, you're it)
To: Prodigal Son
I've flown in an F-111 down the canyon forming the north side of Ben Nevis. Never sucked a hiker down the intake, but that was nearly 15 years ago...
To: jmcclain19
Lemming Trail?
To: philman_36
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posted on
01/22/2004 10:54:35 PM PST
by
gcruse
(http://gcruse.typepad.com/)
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