Stickle Pike

[DM]

Many thanks to LOC for an enjoyable course on Stickle Pike today. Well planned by Hollie Orr, who was getting positive comments from lots of people at the finish. Blue had a nice long leg just after the start, then a good mix of leg lengths and directions. Those clusters of rocks and crags caught a few people out.

I was very please to have 1:7500 map. 1:10000 would have been just OK.

[bewildered]

I agree, a very interesting Blue course. I don't know if Hollie did it on purpose, but having other controls visible and in the rough vicinity of where I was going was quite distracting.

[ba-ba]

an enjoyable day and good course even with shoddy navigation on my part. I'd like to blame attending a wedding the night before but it didn't stop Bruce Duncan catching me 6 mins so I'll have to find another one.

[EddieH]

I too think the planning was (not surprisingly) excellent.
However not knowing what the extension of the area is like if it is as Graeme asserts elsewhere, then I'd prefer to use the bigger area and have fewer convolutions on brown. To that extent I'd opt to scrap the 1:7500 on brown if it is deemed essential to limit it to A4 although what is wrong with larger pieces of paper?

A larger area might also enable even longer legs which on an area like this are great.

[Wayward-O]

However not knowing what the extension of the area is like ...

Full area is on Routegadget. My Short Blue map from the 2012 level B event is of the full area on a 1:7,500, A3 map. Glad I selected a 1:7,500 map for my Green course last Sunday (which was 0.2km longer and 10m more climb than the Short Blue from 2012).