Mountain Biking
08.05.2012 -We went mountain biking in the Peak District. We stopped at points on the map to see if we could navigate and see where we were e.g. after the secong hairpin bend stop at the gate. We also followed the reservoir round like a hand rail feature so we knew that as long as the reservoir was on the right hand side we were going in the right direction.
To plan a route we decided that we would pick out obvious places to stop e.g. 2km up near the third hairpin bend and as we knew how long it would take to go 2km and we would be looking for obvious signs such as that, it would mean that it was pretty simple for us to navigate where we were going.
The orientation of the map would also mean that it would be easy to navigate as when you were no longer facing north the map would still be.

On a map there were grid references and in the event of us getting lost or having to decide where we were they could be used to help either get us back on track or to tell people where we are on the map.
There are 4 figure grid references and 6 figure grid references.
4 figure gris references are used to pin point a square you are in whereas a 6 figure grid reference is used to pinpoint and exact location.