[at-l] Parachutes are necessary on Scottish Trails

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Oddly Enough - Reuters 

A Good Way to Lose Subscribers... (Hikers too!)

LONDON (Reuters) - A hiking magazine apologized on
Thursday after it published a route plan that would
have sent walkers striding into thin air off the north
face of Britain's largest mountain, Ben Nevis. 
The magazine, Trail, missed out a vital bearing needed
to guide climbers off the summit of the Scottish
mountain in bad weather. 
Anyone who had followed the magazine's directions
would have plunged down a sheer cliff into nearby
Gardyloo Gully. 
Editor Guy Procter, himself a keen hillwalker, said
that Trail published 200 routes every year and had
never made a similar mistake before. 
"I should have picked it up at the final proofreading
stage, but unfortunately it slipped through," he told
Reuters. The error was spotted by the Mountaineering
Council of Scotland, which published a warning about
the "dangerous bearing" on their Web Site. 
Procter said he was confident his readers always
carried maps while hill-walking and would therefore
immediately notice the error. 

Hey Ross,  Don't worry!  The AT does not require chutes but at some places it 
may look as though it does.

Skylander