well im a bit late into this one but:
What makes an orienteering area good??
Runnability Technicality Physical exertion needed? Climb Nice scenery? i dunno
brashings: unless trees have fallen down dont realy affect runability enough to change route choices.
i voted Lossie as it is very runnable fast and also technical and very easy to lose fine contact in the dunes but then you just go back out to the attack point and go again.
Day 2 this year on Graythwaite was pretty runnable and had some physical hills that lossie lacks. For a gd area climb can add to the quality but depends as i like lossie for its pure speed and ability to be able to go and not be hampered by some hill.
Loch Vaa we didnt go into on the 14a we just ran round the edge (which mucked me up) on the easeir bit.
Penhale - tis a good area but Lossie is better as its forested.
Sherbrook is great fast runnable plenty of route choices can be physical hills paths and tracks with forest and open. Depends on whether you can knock an area down for technicality as mistakes wont be because of technicality just time loss because of route choices or bearing drifting. Cant see why dan totally dismissed it? Sherwood no -brambles and no hills
Beechenhurst rob sorry no variety there .
But really areas are different and depends what you want because fast is sacrificed for climbs runnablity sometimes for technicality so the question is still unanswered
What Is The Greatest Orienteering Area
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First post for a while, and admittedly i haven't trawled through the whole thread...right fella, what do you mean by this trebor?..."Ok Dallaschyle is painfully bad"
I have to say Dallashyle has to rate up there in my memory, i first visited on tour in 98 and i sticks out. Quality every time i've been back...every summer since.
Anyways if it's not been said...trebor you'd better get yourself out to the o-ringen and experience some 'real' o-terrain. Though i'm not suggesting we don't have 'real' in GB...before anyone says nought.
I have to say Dallashyle has to rate up there in my memory, i first visited on tour in 98 and i sticks out. Quality every time i've been back...every summer since.
Anyways if it's not been said...trebor you'd better get yourself out to the o-ringen and experience some 'real' o-terrain. Though i'm not suggesting we don't have 'real' in GB...before anyone says nought.
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Nails wrote:I have to say Dallashyle has to rate up there in my memory, i first visited on tour in 98 and i sticks out. Quality every time i've been back...every summer since.
Do you mean Dallaschyle? It was only mapped for WOC99 so I dont see how you could have been there in 98.
Its a tough area, with tremendous variety given its size. Downside: it is rather hard to plan good long legs on and you often end up with a 90 minute short race.
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possibly means cawdor too? although that hadn't been used (or remapped as far as I'm aware) before 99 either, quality area with decent runability - probably a bit better than dallaschyle, shame the evil types of cawdor estate arent too keen on it being used for anything.
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I was talking to someone the other day (namesless) who said that they would much rather run an event on Long Valley than Lossie.
Is this so crazy?
He said that he enjoyed the technical challenge of lossie but that he much preffers (in terms of pure enjoyment) to run on the southern areas. Mychett, Long Valley, Star Posts.
Is this so crazy?
He said that he enjoyed the technical challenge of lossie but that he much preffers (in terms of pure enjoyment) to run on the southern areas. Mychett, Long Valley, Star Posts.
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not crazy at all. some people just prefer running fast with easy navigating (as is so typical of these southern areas) than being lost in some really technical place, however nice it might be.
if it's someone who gets disgruntled every time they get lost, then they are obviously going to prefer the kind of areas which they can navigate well on.
if it's someone who gets disgruntled every time they get lost, then they are obviously going to prefer the kind of areas which they can navigate well on.
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Graeme
Indeed you have to do the distance to get the quality areas Not for one second can that be denied, and the big events get put on great areas because of SOA owned maps (which can surely only be a good idea) For the night cup events that Gramp run up here we were driving about an hour to all of them, however, they are quality areas, and if youre suggesting that because one part of scotland is lacking in them then the nation is also, then i cant say i agree, my point was that scotland has a wealth of great areas and as such one suting the even can always be found dosent mean that they are going to be near to everyone.
"no regions of Scotland which can't find areas worthy of a JK" - its sort of true, but only because we're willing to travel out of our region just as EMOA 'found' Greythwaite for their JK."
Indeed you have to do the distance to get the quality areas Not for one second can that be denied, and the big events get put on great areas because of SOA owned maps (which can surely only be a good idea) For the night cup events that Gramp run up here we were driving about an hour to all of them, however, they are quality areas, and if youre suggesting that because one part of scotland is lacking in them then the nation is also, then i cant say i agree, my point was that scotland has a wealth of great areas and as such one suting the even can always be found dosent mean that they are going to be near to everyone.
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I've just cast my vote for Sherbrook. OK, it may not be the most technically or physically challenging area in the country, but it is just across the road (literally) and once JK is out of the way, I can run on it whenever I want.
One other comment, give me a "mediocre" area with good planning over a "fantastic" one with poor planning any day.
One other comment, give me a "mediocre" area with good planning over a "fantastic" one with poor planning any day.
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