Which way to the civilisation?

I just thought I'd drop a quick post about a nugget of useful information from the Ordnance Survey:

"The furthest point from a metalled road in Great Britain is on the hillside of Ruadh Stac Beag, between Letterwe Forest and Fisherfield Forest in Wester Ross, Highland, Scotland. The distance from here to the nearest road (A832) is 11 km (7 miles)."

Metalled in this context means the crushed rock that's used to build the road, so it may be that in the UK at least, navigation is the most important of all survival techniques to learn.

As you'll most likely have some idea of where you were or where you were headed, it's important that you can walk in a reliably straight line. In this way you'll be by a road within the day, depending on terrain, and then having some idea of where you started you'll known which way to follow the road to the nearest settlement. So in this way - a straight line is the way to civilisation.

To have a look at what may well be our most remote location in the UK, click here.