JK2011 - Day 2 and Day 4 fence crossings

[jk2011]

Following a separate thread, to clarify:

1. Other than fences that surround marked Out of Bounds areas and setttlements, there are no fences within the competition area that are forbidden to cross, so there are no purple overprinted lines. All fences within the competition area are topped with several strands of barbed wire; if you choose to cross other than at a stile or gate, you do so at your own risk. There is no need to attempt to climb fences as there are plenty of stiles and open gates, which it is recommended that you should use.

2. There are many simple stiles, marked on the map using short black lines perpendicular to fencelines, which are suitable for use by one person at a time. The barbed wire has been covered at these stiles. There are also a number of large specially constructed ladder stiles, suitable for more than one person at once, that are marked on the map using the purple crossing symbol and which are very visible on the ground.

3. On legs that cross fences without requiring the use of specific crossing points leg lines are broken at fences and are not ‘bent’ towards any particular crossing (stile or gate). How and where to cross the fence remains the choice of the competitor.

4. A number of course legs do require competitors to use specified crossing points. In each case the leg line is clearly ‘bent’ towards and then away from the relevant crossing and the ‘use mandatory crossing’ symbol appears on the control description sheet. The onus is on the competitor to comply with the instruction to use the specified crossing.

this information will be provided in the Daily News sheets.

[SIman]

Thanks for the clarification.

[Oldman]

There are also a number of large specially constructed ladder stiles, suitable for more than one person at once, that are marked on the map using the purple crossing symbol and which are very visible on the ground.

This seemed clear to me until I (and I gather many others) became confused by the fact that not all ladder stiles were marked on every map. Why adopt the most unusual idea of only showing some ladder stiles (specific by map), rather than all ladder stiles on every map?

This led to situations such as people being very confused when trying to relocate, and others not visiting the control they could see because it clearly wasn't theirs, as it was close to a ladder stile (that they could see but which wasn't marked on their map but on the map of runners on other courses).

Despite this annoying and unfair use of crossing point marking, well done NIOA for a superb organisational feat from such a small Association.

[OGirl]

I agree totally about the fence crossings on day 3 - I know of juniors who got totally confused by the fact some, but not all, crossings were overprinted on their maps and tried to navigate from the wrong crossings. Shame because the areas were great and all in all NI hosted a really good JK.

[ba-ba]

I lost ~2mins at #176 (close to #180, controls17&18 on 21L) - as the circle for number 18 impinged upon the crossing point the latter was taken out entirely - There wasn't even a perpendicular black 'footbridge' symbol to show a crossing point (OK this won't have been on the mapfile and you can't put it in when planning on CONDES). It wouldn't have been (as big a) problem if there wasn't a marked crossing point 150m further up the wall. I managed to make the map fit and dropped too low (close to the green start)

[andy]

I lost ~2mins at #176 (close to #180, controls17&18 on 21L) - as the circle for number 18 impinged upon the crossing point the latter was taken out entirely

it'll be interesting to see routegadget for 21L. I was on 21S and our 14 (180) was before the crossing point but it was actually taped from the control to the crossing point so didn't really have any problems.