Trail talk

Trail talk: Telephone kiosks

A glance at a design classic- the telephone kiosk

Trail talk: “have you change for the phone?”

Mobile phones were not always the ubiquitous item they are today. Decades ago, we went out armed with either a fistful of coins or a slip of plastic...

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Trail talk: A coastal walk in the wake of vikings and hovercraft

A short wander along the coast from Ramsgate to Sandwich, visiting where Vikings landed and the site of the world's first international hoverport

Skill

Trail talk: “Clues without a Compass”

The first series of Eagle Annuals, featuring comic book hero […]

art

Trail talk: The Sustrans Millennium Mileposts

Following a National Lottery Grant of £42.5m from the Millennium Commission in 1995, a National Cycle Network (NCN) of some 16 575 miles was established and officially opened June 2000. […]

art

Trail talk: a bespoke paint palette for backpacking

A small bespoke watercolour palette can easily be made at home

navigation

Trail talk: measuring gradients with a slope card

Slope cards can be a useful tool when planning a route or determining the risk of avalanche

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Trail talk: The Pilgrims Way London link- day three

The night prior to my final day on the Pilgrims […]

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Trail talk: The Pilgrims Way London link- day two

A warm day was forecast. From experience on day one […]

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Trail talk: The Pilgrims Way London link- day one

“The people long to go on pilgrimages … Of England, […]

art

Trail talk: 1962 instruction on how to get in to trouble- “Map Your Own Home”

Three Points of the Compass has written before of the […]

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Trail talk: bothies

A glance back at some bothies visited over the years… A’Chuil is a well-situated and appreciated halt. Particularly by those on the Cape Wrath Trail. As I approached the bothy […]

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Trail talk: “Camp the Outward Bound way- and laugh at the weather”

This 1963 article on 'how to camp' appeared in the Eagle Annual

books

Trail talk: happy birthday Rupert Bear

Having begun life in ‘Little Lost Bear’- a simple newspaper ‘text comic’, an illustrated story with accompanying text, on 8th November 1920, Rupert Bear went on to become a much […]

books

Trail talk: A brief history of rambling guides for Kent

“Kent includes within it every variety of scenery which can […]

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Trail talk: the language of the compass

A compass could be more than for simple navigation. Here, it is being used on a postcard to signify feeling. This fascinating card is a relic of long lost romantic gesture from that time.

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