Does anyone know what areas are being used for this years oringen?
What are they like? Apart from having lots of trees and contours..
If anyone has any of the maps please can you scan them and send them to nopesport.
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http://www.oringen.com and follow links to 'etapper'.
looks like there'll be a good mix of terrain.
day 4 - goteborg coastal terrain is tough - lots of bushes and patches of thick stuff, technical hillsides/tops. often its faster to run on hill tops and ridges where there is loads of bare rock and very few trees. often it can be quite green in the transition zones between hill tops and valleys.
day 3 - skatas - one of the city's main training areas, it's really diverse. loads of paths in the areas closest to the city, interspersed with small hills and little technical patches. there is a mix of deciduous and pine forest which is a little different for Sweden. As you move away from the city however and leave the big tracks behind, the map changes in character - tough tussocky marshes, and pine hillsides ranging from technical to vague. long, linear crag faces are major natural barriers - look out for sneaky routes through these (small paths, steps, breaks in the face) to gain time.
days 2,5 - inland - expect it to be a bit more 'classical' scandinavian terrain i would have thought, but the typical features of the goteborg area are bushy, low visibility areas of technical granite terrain - small re-entrants, crags and marshes. patches of this stuff will probably crop up on most areas and will require good concentration.
day 1 - partille - fast open woodland in the main, but some really technical hillsides towards the town (patille) where i am hazarding a guess the finish area will be. over this side there are bushes and lots of rock features. not many paths and some vague areas towards the middle of the map. there are some open rides that criss cross the area - these can be fast to run on if they're going your way. watch out for big open marshes - if its been wet they may be tough to cross, but the long linear ones are good handrails. route choice will be important - theres some decent size hills.
i'll look for some maps in the next couple of days. but i haven't got a scanner...
looks like there'll be a good mix of terrain.
day 4 - goteborg coastal terrain is tough - lots of bushes and patches of thick stuff, technical hillsides/tops. often its faster to run on hill tops and ridges where there is loads of bare rock and very few trees. often it can be quite green in the transition zones between hill tops and valleys.
day 3 - skatas - one of the city's main training areas, it's really diverse. loads of paths in the areas closest to the city, interspersed with small hills and little technical patches. there is a mix of deciduous and pine forest which is a little different for Sweden. As you move away from the city however and leave the big tracks behind, the map changes in character - tough tussocky marshes, and pine hillsides ranging from technical to vague. long, linear crag faces are major natural barriers - look out for sneaky routes through these (small paths, steps, breaks in the face) to gain time.
days 2,5 - inland - expect it to be a bit more 'classical' scandinavian terrain i would have thought, but the typical features of the goteborg area are bushy, low visibility areas of technical granite terrain - small re-entrants, crags and marshes. patches of this stuff will probably crop up on most areas and will require good concentration.
day 1 - partille - fast open woodland in the main, but some really technical hillsides towards the town (patille) where i am hazarding a guess the finish area will be. over this side there are bushes and lots of rock features. not many paths and some vague areas towards the middle of the map. there are some open rides that criss cross the area - these can be fast to run on if they're going your way. watch out for big open marshes - if its been wet they may be tough to cross, but the long linear ones are good handrails. route choice will be important - theres some decent size hills.
i'll look for some maps in the next couple of days. but i haven't got a scanner...
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Day 1 is being organised by my club and i have run through the area on the main track that goes through the middle,in general i would say that there were more paths than usual in Sweden as cycling is very popular around those areas.If it is wet, the ground will get very heavy underfoot. There are lots of rock features on the hillsides but in general it is very quick, thats about what i can remember from the areas around it.
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My club is responsible for day 4. I would say that this could well be the most difficult day of the lot. I have run on the area once and the amount of open rock and small trees makes navigation tough. Add to that a distinct lack of tracks and.... you get the picture. I know the mapper (was speaking to him at the Jukola yesterday) and he is expecting people to find the area a challenge. I'll be setting out some of the controls the week before. Haven't actually got a copy of the old map to hand (it hasn't been used for competition for quite a while now). Nice bit of coastline though.
Skatås is a mixture of everything: long rocky ridges with marshes in between, areas with many paths and areas without, small lakes to the west and a large lake in the south east. I used to live on the south edge of the map so I have run there plenty of times. Good planning could make it a good stage. Watch out for small paths which go up and over the rock ridges. There are rock staircases in a couple of places which make things considerably easier. I actually have the map here but it is too big for my scanner. I may try to copy the more interesting parts though.
Day 2 (Kungälv) is not too difficult. I've run there a number of times. Plenty of paths but with some small hills. Not too much open rock detail. Another recreation area (ski tracks etc).
Can't remember too much about the other two areas, sorry.
Anyone staying on the campsite, please be nice to the folk doing the security patrolling at night - feed them tea and biscuits - I might be one of them.
Skatås is a mixture of everything: long rocky ridges with marshes in between, areas with many paths and areas without, small lakes to the west and a large lake in the south east. I used to live on the south edge of the map so I have run there plenty of times. Good planning could make it a good stage. Watch out for small paths which go up and over the rock ridges. There are rock staircases in a couple of places which make things considerably easier. I actually have the map here but it is too big for my scanner. I may try to copy the more interesting parts though.
Day 2 (Kungälv) is not too difficult. I've run there a number of times. Plenty of paths but with some small hills. Not too much open rock detail. Another recreation area (ski tracks etc).
Can't remember too much about the other two areas, sorry.
Anyone staying on the campsite, please be nice to the folk doing the security patrolling at night - feed them tea and biscuits - I might be one of them.
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You can find a wee taster map of the terrain around Torslanda at the web address below.
http://hem.fyristorg.com/taik/kartor/lilleby.html
Any ScotJOSers may be interested in this map as well.
http://hem.fyristorg.com/taik/kartor/sm.html
It's beside the club hut you're staying in so you might well get a wee training run there. Should test the leg muscles a bit.
http://hem.fyristorg.com/taik/kartor/lilleby.html
Any ScotJOSers may be interested in this map as well.
http://hem.fyristorg.com/taik/kartor/sm.html
It's beside the club hut you're staying in so you might well get a wee training run there. Should test the leg muscles a bit.
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I think we trained on that Lilleby map on tour in '97... from memory the strangest thing was that it was very open, despite being white on the map. It wasn't fast through - really rocky, big marsh re-entrants between the rocky lumps and really hard work.
I might be wrong that it's the same map though!
I might be wrong that it's the same map though!
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Sounds like it could be the same place as your description pretty much matches what I have seen of Torslanda.
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