One of The Ireland Walking Guide website's primary objectives is to encourage walkers to take an active hands-on role in planning their own walks. Since the beginning, we have always had a very specific vision for our website: to create a first-stop information resource for recreational walkers in Ireland without negatively impacting on their walk-planning abilities and navigation skills.
We do this by providing ideas for where to walk along with other useful information (e.g. recommended maps) to assist with the walk planning process, but we deliberately steer clear of finer details like route planning. We leave that important part to you, the walker, because it helps to maintain your essential map-reading and basic research skills. By taking an active hands-on role in planning your own walks, you will get a much clearer picture of each place before you even set foot there, making your overall walking experiences so much more satisfying, interesting and rewarding.
Forget all those "spoon-feed" and "crowd-sourced" websites, apps and artificial intelligence. A printed hardcopy map is the only route-planning tool you should ever need. Anyone can follow instructions, but truly competent outdoor enthusiasts plan their own adventures. There are leaders and there are followers. Which are you?
We do this by providing ideas for where to walk along with other useful information (e.g. recommended maps) to assist with the walk planning process, but we deliberately steer clear of finer details like route planning. We leave that important part to you, the walker, because it helps to maintain your essential map-reading and basic research skills. By taking an active hands-on role in planning your own walks, you will get a much clearer picture of each place before you even set foot there, making your overall walking experiences so much more satisfying, interesting and rewarding.
Forget all those "spoon-feed" and "crowd-sourced" websites, apps and artificial intelligence. A printed hardcopy map is the only route-planning tool you should ever need. Anyone can follow instructions, but truly competent outdoor enthusiasts plan their own adventures. There are leaders and there are followers. Which are you?