I can fully relate having been walking in the Central Highlands of Scotland which was my first foray into walking outside of Australia. My boots actually got wet and muddy for the first time which explains why the drying room was rated so highly in the information brochure!. I took by DSLR but didn’t bother with changing lenses. I carried it in a small camera bag attached to the front of my day pack with 2 carabeanas. It worked really well and the bag kept the camera dry (yea I got soaked too, never happens in OZ). However, I didn’t get to take too many photos as most of my energy went it to just keeping up with the group but it was a great experience. Next trip Wales.

I have friends who live just outside of Gort and visit them every few years or so and my favorite thing to do is walk through the countryside with my camera.

Colm, I use a Garmin nuvo – it’s a fairly ordinary unit. It is useful for showing smaller byroads and also for showing if there is a river or lake nearby (that might be obscured by trees from the road).

It’s not so good for searching placenames or for finding the optimum route to a destination (iits routemaps doesn’t seem to have been updated in a while)