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Simon Young @sah-young.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Dave’s Thursday Nav puzzle I think we are on the square looking NE to the diamond Cairngorms?

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

As we join the great theoretical scientist, he is deep in thought. So still, quiet and focused that he might almost be asleep. But inside that brilliant mind, what new idea is forming? What certainty is being meticulously interrogated? What ingenious theory is ready to change our world forever? (the scientist snores lightly) Ah, it seems he actually is asleep. And that's fine. Science is hard and not every day can be a success. We will come back another time.

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Simon Young @sah-young.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Dave’s Thursday Nav puzzle I have been out on Dartmoor all day and confess to being on the horns of a dilema here🤔🤷 I have two possible answers, neither of which seem to fit well I await the eight o’clock revelation with interest!

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Simon Young @sah-young.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Dave’s Thursday Nav puzzle Circled features easy enough, but photo location trickier Here I think, as on rounder top rather than just SW on steeper ground

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Simon Young @sah-young.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Dave’s Thursday Nav puzzle High risk / good viz. fastest red 🔴 N up over top. Stream line NE to BoS Keep eye on aspect of slope Handrail BoS W of N to Pond ( count streams) Safer/ night/ low viz. Slower Blue🔵 NE down to path Follow N to Track J NW up past wood and handrail in along stream

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Simon Young @sah-young.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Dave’s Thursday Nav puzzle 5 Harrop Tarn <310 m 4 E of Bell Crag <410 m 2 Blea Tarn <480 m Less depth of tarn 🤿 1 W of Lords How <480 m 3 N of Standing Crag > 510 m

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Simon Young @sah-young.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Was up in Wasdale Head yesterday assessing a Gold DofE expedition Took the opportunity to pay my respects to Joss Naylor at St Olaf’s - The UK’s smallest church One for Dave @fellrunningguide.bsky.social

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Simon Young @sah-young.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Dave’s Thursday Nav puzzle I think we are on Outer Edge looking S of E Ground dips beyond rocks (Rocking Stones) then up to to higher ground ( Horse Stone) Can also see Cloughs on far hillside

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Everyone heard of landlocked countries. You might even be able to some of the 44 nations without access to the ocean. This map however introduces us to the idea of landlocked rivers and kindly marks their watersheds too. Great geography fun: www.reddit.com/r/geography/...

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Simon Young @sah-young.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Dave’s Thursday Puzzle We are looking SE over Kebble, from the road above the N shore Only lake/loch/lough with characteristic “waist” 📸 just to W of hairpin in road

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Simon Young @sah-young.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Dave’s Thursday Nav puzzle Hmmmm. Tricksy Used forestry blocks and the lake to orientate Flat areas located OK Gourge by photo locations tricky to ID, but possibly indicated by a line of reentrant contours . Fits with bearing to hut by lake

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

1. The entomology department notice board a sign reads “Employee of the moth: Claire”
(Claire is spelled with an i)

2. Clare and a colleague are scientists wearing lab coats, they look at the board. He says “Congrats, But I think they made a typo.”

“Damn, do they did.” Says Clare

3. Clare in the office, seen from outside “Sorry to bother you boss, but my name is spelled wrong on the poster”

4. Her boss is a human-sized moth in a lab coat sitting behind a desk “Apologies Clare, I’ll get that fixed.”
(Clare is spelled either no i)

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Simon Young @sah-young.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Dave’s Thursday Nav puzzle We are at the black trig, looking due South. The island in Carsington water is just to the L of a transit to the peninsula

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Simon Young @sah-young.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Dave’s Thursday Nav puzzle I think we are on Humbleton Hill looking NW to the gully in Harehope Hill, but looks larger in photo than on map …. Would have expected water in the gully…. However, shape of FB helps and grey ornament indicates bare rock Gainslaw S of W ?Yeavering Bell in distance

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Simon Young @sah-young.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Dave’s Thursday Nav puzzle We are in a broad flat bottomed valley, must be Cwm Eigiau Looking straight up valley to the col of Bwlch Marchog ie not one of your shapes However, I can’t identify on the map the small peak in the photo. It looks like it ought to be more than 9.99999m above the col 🤔

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Simon Young @sah-young.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Winnie the Poo meets Morecambe and Wise

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Simon Young @sah-young.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Dave’s Thursday Nav puzzle Looking at the contours I would say mostly East / purple, but some spill over going West

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

If you (like me) are considering to get a #dinosaur as a pet you will find this #infographic most helpful. Source: buff.ly/2Ej9JeH

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Simon Young @sah-young.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Dave’s Thursday nav puzzle We are looking upstream along the Alport- the only substantial river on the extract , from high on the S bank, above a broad round incised meander 🟨 is a sharp angular dog leg meander PS sorry to miss last week - was out route setting / marking a walk all day (🥵🫠)

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Imagine travelling thousands of miles just to spend your evenings doing zoomies over the same few houses... It's hard not to be impressed 👇 #SwiftAwarenessWeek

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Simon Young @sah-young.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Dave’s Thursday Nav puzzle We are looking down stream to the E Stood on crag looking over stream to first ridge Follow round and count crags and shoulders to second shoulder Watch out for dead ☠️ ground Count back from hill path to confirm,but not 💯 confident on second feature😬

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Simon Young @sah-young.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Dave’s Thurs Nav puzzle Start on the B6359 Up StCuthberts way Rising traverse S to Eidon Mid Hill (after 1k on contouring section to W of Eidon Hill N) This doesn’t fit gentle decent! Contour to Bourjo?🤔 Down NE across coll Signal Station NE to contouring path Return along St C’s way to start

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Simon Young @sah-young.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Dave’s Thursday nav problem We are just off the top of the middle hill looking S Lake is ring contour 🟦 S hill 🟠

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Gotta love the Dutch 🚲🇳🇱

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

ACAA* my latest for @newscientist.com *a cartoon about abbreviations

Panel 1
A figure addresses an audience from a lectern:
"Welcome to the IWAS*! Today I'm Going to talk about ARPs* in our communications."

Notes
*1 Institute-Wide Abbreviation seminar
*2 Abbreviation-Related Problems

Panel 2
She continues "These fall into two categories:" gesturing to a screen wshich reads:
1. ROAs*
2.WUAs*

Notes
*3 Ridiculously Obscure Abbreviations
*4 Wrongly-Used Abbreviations

Panel 3
She says:
"...In conclusion: Stick to WRAs* and use them correctly and sparingly."
One of the audience thinks "WTF!"

Notes
*5 widely-recognised Abbreviations
*6 Well, that's fascinating.

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Great little piece by @semi_rad.

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Simon Young @sah-young.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Dave’s Thursday Nav Puzzle We are looking up N to the air vent on a flat topped mound stood next to a FB which heads of at NE ish Flat ground with a slight rise to our R. ?remains of sheepfold, but that could be wishful thinking!

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Simon Young @sah-young.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Dave’s Thursday Nav puzzle Evening time, shadow indicates we are looking N- ish Large forestry block to E- ish High ground on axis on distance 🏕️ on the Bank ⭕️ is Score Head

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Simon Young @sah-young.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Dave’s Thursday Nav puzzle You would start in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 then walk about 750 m across 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, before returning to 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Interesting that the PW doesn’t quite follow the border, (so walkers mights get multiple stamps in their passports 😉

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Today's #DawnChorusClub challenge... Step outdoors with your morning cuppa. ☕️ What's the first sound or sight you noticed?

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Simon Young @sah-young.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Dave’s Thursday Nav puzzle Both contours are at 240m OD (225 +15 ‘cos we are on on Harvey’s) Either side of a NW/SE “trough” with a re-entrant at either end

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com #manosphere

Image:
A small, angry boy stands in front of his parents. They are in modern clothes, but he is dressed as a regency gentleman with top hat, breeches, cane etc. He says
"No title, no estates, and less than a thousand a year! How am I ever to find a wife!"

Caption:
Noah's parents realise that he has been drawn into the manorsphere.

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Simon Young @sah-young.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Dave’s Thursday Nav puzzle 🤔🤔🤔 We are on a non-mountainous 1: 25 map so 5 m contour intervals Working back from the spot heights the mystery contour has to be 380 m OD However……. that should make it an index contour, rather than the ?375 one below it. 😶‍🌫️🤦🏼‍♂️🤯

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

Two archaeologists stand in a trench looking at an unearthed, fossilised, time machine and a tyrannosaurus skull in whose jaws is a human skeleton holding an aerosol can. One says: “These fossils would appear to suggest that, while Professor Cooper's time machine was a great success, his dinosaur repellent formula was not.”

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Simon Young @sah-young.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Dave’s Thursday Nav puzzle Evil 😈 this week None, I think 🤔 We are on high ground sloping down to R Mid ground is a major valley across which we look to a tributary valley with spur on S side, then further tributary, then kink for 🟠 Behind that, up to flat plateau-like col

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Another great XKCD comic! This time we are treated to a quick geology lesson about the US. The bit on California made me laugh 😉

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Simon Young @sah-young.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Dave’s Thursday Nav puzzle We are on the aquaduct/bridge for Force Gill (🤔map a bit congested, but it's ? the only stream going over the 🛤️) Looking SW to Ingleborough 🟨 the 1st bridge over the 🛤️ going S ↙️ coll below / N of South House Moor (worked back from Ingleborough and Souther Scales Fell)

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Simon Young @sah-young.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Just had a quick look at some other answers here on Bluesky and realised I am a Muppet! 🟨 is obviously Crooks and not Ladybower Tor. Zoomed right in you can see the dip between the two as well as its more obvious craggy nature 🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️

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Simon Young @sah-young.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Dave’s Thursday Nav puzzle We are on Stannage end looking along Ladybower, over Jarvis Clough 🟨 Ladybower Tor 🟠 Lose Hill ⚠️ Whin Hill

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Simon Young @sah-young.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Dave’s Thurs Nav puzzle 1. 500m W on minor track, ? in gully along reentrants. (don’t use ROW to S as no track) Hit angle on FB. Check with 🧭if not bang on angle 2. 200m down reentrant to enclosure 3. 300m NW to track aiming off to N (slope then Rd as cut off) 4. Follow top of quarry back SW to 🔚

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I am going camping on the weekend and this map by @mattsurelee is almost certainly going to mirror my experience 😉 ⛺️

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Simon Young @sah-young.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Dave’s Thursday Nav puzzle Sunlight on fellside indicates we are facing E-ish. We are looking past knoll/ mini-spur 🔵, over sharp valley (Liza), then spur (Tongue), then second valley to Moses trod on Brandreth 🟨 📸 higher than knoll, on FP so near Spot height on Black Sail Pass

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Simon Young @sah-young.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Dave’s Thursday Nav puzzle Initial confusion as I thought we were looking upstream 🤪 Looking SW from up on the E flank of the stream 🟡 is next stream J Can see Black Tor- Lost Lad ridge on sky line Plateau area immediately S of stream gully Track up to Howshaw Tor over to W

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Simon Young @sah-young.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Dave’s Thursday Nav puzzle All good knowledge to have in the tool box 🟤 Contours are always numbered facing up hill 🔵 on Harvey maps dashed “intermediate” contours show significant topography missed by the real ones. A down side of the coarse 15m contour interval. 🟡 Grey = rocky terrain

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Mind Over Mountains charity @mindovermountains.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

So January was quite a month for our (small but mighty) mental wellbeing through nature charity. Powerful affirmation of our work came about when we were joined on one of our walks by HRH The Princess of Wales. Read more here mindovermountains.org.uk/blogs/news/w... #wellbeing #mentalhealth #nature

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The Princess of Wales joins a Mind Over Mountains mental wellbeing walk in the Peak District

The Mind Over Mountains team welcomes The Princess of Wales out onto the hills on a wellbeing walk - to share with her what we do as a charity, and to demonstrate the connections between nature and we...

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

Panel 1: Some social scientists
(five stick figure portraits of scientists)
Economist
Archaeologist
Geographer
Psychologist
Anthropologist

Panel 2: Some antisocial scientists
(five stick figures scuttling out of the panel)
Introverted Astronomer
Solitary Mathematician
Reclusive Biologist
Misanthropic Chemist
Withdrawn Physicist

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Simon Young @sah-young.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Dave’s Thursday Nav puzzle Hmm🙄🤔 Quite a discrepancy between the two maps. No building shown on 1:25, but probably located in the small field on the 340 contour. Further W than you thought. Leg therefore approx 100m shorter than anticipated Could check by taking careful bearings on the road itself

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Simon Young @sah-young.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Dave’s Thursday Nav puzzle We are just off the top of Ingleborough. Below the roughest ground. Looking NW to Simon Fell The 🟨marked crag can be located by the Nward bend in the scarp edge and the kink in the wall

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Not all population maps are the same...

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