Hey team!

Hopefully by now you have ‘clicked’ out your routes on memory map so the next phase is to actually turn this into a useable route card.

Your route will currently have loads of little circles where you have clicked to change direction or mark a specific point, you need to decide which of these to use as ‘check points’.

You need to have between 8 and 12 check points each day. Each one no more than about 2k’s apart.

Start at the beginning! Put the curser over the first little circle for the day so the little finger becomes a little arrow as you hover over the circle and right click. Then left click on waypoint properties. In the top box change the name to start. For the check points after that then change the name to the description of what the check point is, ie path junction, cairn etc etc. You must then tick the ‘SHOW NAME’ box or it just won’t work! Then click close.

That circle should then have the name/description you have given it next to it.

Once you have done this until the last one named finish day 1 or camp day one and so on then you are ready to make a route card.

  1. Double click anywhere on the coloured line marking the route and the ‘overlay properties’ box should come up.
  2. Click on settings and in the top box for ‘estimated speed’ change it to 3 km/h and then put a 1 in the ‘ascent time’ box below.
  3. Then of the four tick boxes below ensure that ONLY the bottom one is ticked.
  4. Then click on OK.
  5. Next click on ‘Route Card’ in the overlay properties box.
  6. You will now get a page with some of your completed route card. Ignore the top box with ‘aim of expedition’ and ‘name of group’ etc on it and highlight all of the box below with ‘leg’ in the top left corner. Right click ‘copy’.
  7. Open up a blank Word document and change it to landscape and cut all the margins down to 1cm. Then paste the memory map table into it. Have a look at the finished route card overleaf and make yours look like that. The grid references will be 10 figure grid references so delete the last two digits of each of the two sets of five digits to create a six figure grid reference (see overleaf). MAKE SURE YOU PUT YOUR GROUP NUMBER AND THE EXPEDITION DAY ON TOP!!!!