CompassSport 99

[mikey]

Excellent stuff!

I can tick off 62 out of 99 (of the named areas). None in NI (yet).

I'm sure Eddie and others can easily beat that.

[mikey]

Has there ever been any orienteering on the Isle of Man?

[SeanC]

I can't be the only one that doesn't know what you are talking about .

[mikey]

New CS came this morning with the CS 99 insert.

Names the best orienteering in each of the 99 counties (well 94 as 5 don't have any areas named - Shetland, Bute, Wigtownshire, Orkney, Caithness) with a tick list for date you orineteered there.

[superstartradesman]

New CS came this morning with the CS 99 insert.

Names the best orienteering in each of the 99 counties (well 94 as 5 don't have any areas named - Shetland, Bute, Wigtownshire, Orkney, Caithness) with a tick list for date you orineteered there.

I'm sure Penninghame (Day 4 of Southern Uplands '91) and possibly Pulnagashel (sp?) (Day 2) are in Wigtownshire...

And there was an orienteering club in Shetland in the late 80s - I remember a guy there who wrote several articles on their activities for Score, the SOA magazine...

[greywolf]

No orienteering in Caithness?

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8172&p=89219&hilit=Dunnet#p89219

No compasssport here yet tho'...

[CS99er]

To confirm,

The areas on the CS99 list are intended to be current areas only. If you have run on an area in the past that is in a county with no listed area then you can tick that county off. You have to read the Compass Sport article for any of this to make sense. If you disagree with the list then blame the local club!

[SeanC]

Aahh, so it's the orienteering equivalent of the Munros?

If so then can we expect an influx of Scottish orienteers to the next local event in the Kent "good area"?

(I will read CS when I get home).

[mikey]

Aahh, so it's the orienteering equivalent of the Munros?

If so then can we expect an influx of Scottish orienteers to the next local event in the Kent "good area"?

(I will read CS when I get home).

That's Blean.

[SeanC]

Thursday 11th Feb, 7.30pm then.

[frog]

Some of the counties chosen seem odd. I was baffled by the inclusion of Lendrick Muir in Kinross-shire as it's a tiny schools map until I looked at the county boundaries and realised it's the only orienteering map in Kinross-shire. Having 3 from Tayside may have given better areas than dividing it into Perthshire, Angus and Kinross-shire. Also Dundee area gets missed out and we have a few o maps there, admittedly none brilliant, but better than Lendrick Muir. Suspect Perthsire has most of our good maps with the exception of Barry Budden.

[SeanC]

A few dodgy areas might be in the spirit of Munro bagging though. I bet there are the odd few boring Monros you need to climb to join that club.

BTW, you can also do Blean on Sat 24th April. Don't know if you can make a weekend of 99 bagging that weekend as CS hasn't arrived in Kent yet.

[EddieH]

82 out of 99 for me. (missing 6 E, 3 W, 6 S and 2 NI)

I had to get out a Marsden Moor map to check where I'd been - within 30m of Greater Manchester but not there - if only I'd made an error

I akso drove to an event in Flint only for it to be snowed off.

Missing Beds, Cambs, G Man, Nhamp, Rutland (is this a county?), Flint, Pembroke, Radnor, Bute, Caithness, Clackman, Kinross, Orkney, Shetland, Armargh, Fermanagh

57 of the 82 counties have been to the nominated area.

I cannot understand how Delemere Forest got voted above Bickerton Hill and am also amazed to see no mention of Wharnecliffe - the best area in the south.

[DavidJ]

also amazed to see no mention of Wharnecliffe - the best area in the south.

Surely Wharncliffe is in the north! This could restart the north/south debate

[greywolf]

Rutland (is this a county?)

It's a unitary authority
The map of counties used seems to be an amalgamation:
Scotland: local government counties pre 1975
Wales: local government counties pre 1974
England: ceremonial counties (i.e. they have a Lord Lieutenant - don't ask) at present - but there is one missing - the City of London - which would have made a round 100