AZ Adventures 1:25000 scale maps for walkers
Only a few minutes before the start of our last First Steps to Map Reading course , Mike walked into the training room with a small package. "You might like this" he said, passing it over to me. On opening I discovered 2 AZ Adventures booklets of 1:25000 Peak District mapping, together with case and lanyard. Thanks to the wonders of social media, I had been offered these to review. During this particular course, I talk about the various mapping options available to walkers, and had often mentioned the AZ maps, but never actually bought one. I included them in the list that morning, and the group of relatively experienced walkers were quite impressed, and I have to say so were we. So what makes AZ Adventures different? The most obvious is that in keeping with AZ a pedigree, these are uniquely in a book or atlas format, which means no wrangling with large cumbersome maps, a wonderful bonus when it is blowing a gale out in the hill. This does mean you have to...