JK2010 - Eden Project event

[youngladdie]

According to News on the JK website - there is an 'urban' event at Eden Camp, Cornwall on Thursday 8th April...
It would be great to run around and visit the Eden Project, in and out of the biospheres - but most of us are only there for the weekend - why cant we have it the Thursday before as a warm-up? thursday 1st april?

[Snail]

How about:
- Thursday 1st is not a school holiday in most places (and which also means any orienteers who are teachers won't be available) so perhaps the organisers think attendance will be better on the 8th?
- SWOA/KERNO are rightly giving priority to the JK -they don't want to jeopardise that by organising another event the day before, with possible risks of kit going missing / SI boxes needing reprogramming or batteries replaced / etc
- KERNO are a small club but are already providing 4 of the 8 planners for the weekend, possibly with further club members assisting with forest tasks. I'd rather they concentrtated on hanging JK controls in the right place!
- the venue may not be available?
- etc etc

In their position I'd probably be doing the same thing.

Now if you were to volunteer to liaise with the landowner, plan, and bring in all the kit and an organising team from elsewhere that might be different...

[Mrs H]

Woohoo (hope you mean Eden Project not Eden Camp isn't that some WWII place in Yorkshire) Perhaps it could replace the Cambridge event in the Nopesport League

[Big Jon]

Thursday 1st is a holiday in Scotland - though I doubt many will be travelling that far to the JK.

[Gnitworp]

If you're staying on, why not try a unique challenge on the Wednesday (7th April) on Wheal Florence near Plymouth.

Map Scale: 1: 2500

Contour Interval: 1.25m

The map segment is 182m by 150m. Of the rest 950m by average 150m is of comparable complexity throughout. There are, however, easily-followed peripheral gulleys and paths for a suitable Orange Standard course, making the event family-friendly.

See the Flyer on the JK2010 website under 'Things to do'

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[SIman]

Thursday 1st is a holiday in Scotland.

I fear that that is not true for most of schools in the Scotland apart from those in the North. We will be leaving for Devon after finishing at 4pm on Thursday 1st and several councils, including Glasgow, are working on the Friday. Details here.
We would like to be staying on to run on that map, but I am not sure if it will be possible.

[Gnitworp]

You'll be missing a treat, or rather 2 treats

[youngladdie]

I have to go home on Easter Monday - but would love to return for the Thursday Eden Project event - could anyone in Devon/Cornwall put me up for the One night?

[Roadkill]

Gnitworp said you'd be missing a treat if you did not stay to the Wheal Florence event, he could not have been more right! Today I checked all the control sites, OK, OK, I am the controller so I am allowed to. But as I entered the area, map in hand, I passed into another world, I stepped onto another planet; not a planet of cheese or pink Martian rocks, but a land of confused and disrupted terrain, a land tossed by an earthquake, well maybe not an earthquake (but that is what it looked like) but a land turned and tortured by men who had wielded picks and shovels to extract the tin therein years and years ago. Now it lay shaggy and brown, a beard of parched grass hiding its pock-marked face, a face pimpled with brown heaps of part digested equine and ovine droppings. In my hand was the key to this enigma, a map, the complexity of which I had never before had the good fortune to endeavour to unravel. As I stepped forward, aligned by the compass in my hand, the tangle of brown wiggley lines, began to metamorphose under my very feet, the lines became reentrants, spurs and gullies, the circles hills and holes in the ground. I strode confidently (note the rate of progression, all who wish to excell at this event) to the feature in the centre of my first circle and on to the next, and on and on; it was hard to tell whether the map was under my feet or the terrain in my hand, or the other way about. It was a baptism by contours, it was the Wheal Florence Experience, I had been born again. I finished my task and walked back into the world of only three dimensions, the mundane world in which we earn (and eat) our bread and butter. As I unlocked the door of my lichen encrusted Nissan Bluebird I addressed my companion, "Its OK Jim" I said "you've cracked it. If for nothing else, you'll be remembered for this masterpiece, this work of art - well until they flatten it with a bulldozer".
You'd also miss the other treat, that could be quite an experience too, but I won't go into the detail just now.

[Scott]

Ladies and gentlemen, take note: that is how to write a terrain description .

[rebbid]

That's all very well Arthur. But what level is the event?

[DM]

That's all very well Arthur. But what level is the event?

A different level? Who cares? It sounds really good and should be supported by all who can stay on after the JK

[IanD]

Ladies and gentlemen, take note: that is how to write a terrain description .

Indeed! Seems a shame to confine it to Nopesport's rather limited readership, why not put it on the JK web site with the rest of the event details?

[entries-sec]

Happy to oblige; Arthur's purple prose will appear on the Things To Do page.

Christine Vince

[King Penguin]

You'd also miss the other treat, that could be quite an experience too, but I won't go into the detail just now.

Badger-burgers ?