Orienteering in the Snow?

[youngladdie]

Orienteering in the snow in Beverley yesterday - wonderful - and pleased the decision was made to go ahead (despite the usual police warings of 'only travel if absolutely necessary') - it just shows you can orienteer in the snow, and ice (as long as you can get there/park etc), and as for Health and Safety - we can all look after our own.

[frog]

Feeling very miserable about our Sunday event looking outside. We spent Sat and Monday putting controls out on the higher ground and doing final map changes and map extension and things were coming together well. Now looks as though by Sunday we could be back to snow above wellie level on higher ground which turns the event into more of an endurance mountain marathon than a pleasant run.
Suspect we'll be forced to cancel and I'll then have 2 days of walking the controls down again (the forest roads being steep and icy).
Think I need a less frustrating hobby.

[andy]

Suspect we'll be forced to cancel and I'll then have 2 days of walking the controls down again (the forest roads being steep and icy).
Think I need a less frustrating hobby.

boo, don't cancel!

(but if you do let me know and I'll come and collect some on Sunday)

[frog]

Thanks for the offer of help, may take you upon it although you'd be let off getting the highest controls as if we do cancel we'd rehold it later in the year and keep the courses unchanged so you don't want to be collecting any brown controls. We'll probably get the maps done anyway, although we'll have to get it fitted in in the next few months as more "thinning " is planned that will muck up the map yet again.

[mappingmum]

boo2! I've just given my on-call to a colleague and was none too pleased when all this snow arrived this morning.

[Big Jon]

Event 12 of DNC took place tonight at Crathes (location of 2005 6-Day campsite). Conditions pretty ropey with a blizzard and roads covered in heavy slush despite regular gritting/ploughing vehicles. 26 nutters (I mean enthusiasts) turned up and 17 made it to the curry afterwards. A good series with overall winners in Finlay Langan (Long) and Richard Oxlade (Medium). 7 of the events took place in snowy forests (and an 8th was very cold and icy) - is this a "snow" record for a series of events in GB?

[Olsoran]

.. good series..

You underplay it Jon. The DNC has being going a fair while now and this years series has got to be the most memorable of all of them. Great areas as usual, and the same crazy levels of commitment as ever but with the addition of quite wonderful snow conditions on a number of occasions. Dess, Coull, and Crathes last night, amongst others will stick in the memory for a good long while.

Thanks for coordinating it all (Rod too).

[SeanC]

mmm, the weather forecast for Ilkley Moor seems a bit iffy, though the Met office are covering most bases (Met office symbols for Yorkshire on sunday) - .

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[seabird]

The sun always shines in Yorkshire - even when there's snow on the ground. It only falls at night - just like the rain.

[Big Jon]

The sun always shines in Yorkshire - even when there's snow on the ground. It only falls at night - just like the rain.

this comment should be on the "Banter" section surely as it is so untrue as to be funny!

[SeanC]

For those who weren't there, it turned out that Seabird's forecast proved more accurate than the Met Office's. I think I even saw the sun peeking through.

[seabird]

Sadly Sean I swopped places with you and went to the South-East. It poured.