SYO Member wrote:
The Grid Ref. was just the junction of the 2 B-roads crossing the Forest of Dean, and I assumed that the event would be signposted from there or in the vicinity. Unfortunately this wasn’t the case and after driving around the area looking for where I thought the event should be (a bit like when some people can’t find a control!), concluded that the event had been cancelled.
Ray
The same thing happened once when I was walking to an event in Dean. For the first 20 years of orienteering, I did not have a car, and often walked or cycled from public transport /Hitching.
This was the cause of a 3 mile extra walk and I could have got there on another bus (no I am not coming out
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At Duns on Sunday, there were signs on walkers route explaining what was going on, and an invitation to join in. Good stuff!
A good idea would be to do what I have seen done in France, posters in shop windows etc before the event in the local towns/villages.
