Why have Ordnance Survey maps become so expensive?
Seeing how the following two pages of TAC3 comprise a comprehensive, easy-to-use guide to the nuances and niceties of hill navigation, it perhaps makes sense to briefly raise what is, for many, one of the abiding mysteries of Scottish hillwalking: why have Ordnance Survey maps become so expensive? JUNGLE The question, unlike many of those which furrow your editor’s balaclava-ed brow, is not as facetious as it sounds. Whilst acknowledging that a familiar old pink-covered 1:50 000 sheet still costs less than a couple of fish suppers or entrance to the Jungle at Parkhead, and whilst nine times out of ten it will prove to be more pleasurable and of more enduring worth than either (particularly if Anton Rogan is playing), it has to be remembered that only a few short years ago the same map could have been picked up not for 3.90, but more like 70p. BOOTS It’s certainly not the case that this exponential increase in costliness has been necessary to keep pace with inflation. If that were so, a
