The Future of Orienteering is in Safe Hands!?

[maprun]

I don't know if this has been posted before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26cq16X7kq4

I needed to dry my eyes afterwards.

[Freefall]

Under Is Traditional Orienteering Dying? if someone wants to move the link

[graeme]

"Don't be afraid, we always form one big pack"

[maprun]

"Am I the only one that treasures the lonesome struggle in the forest?"

[andypat]

http://youtu.be/FKqDAjxC15k

Hitler changes his mind....

With sincere apologies to Big Jon, who despite Hitler's opinion is perfectly at home in the city or the forest when it comes to producing top O maps...

Slightly less sincere apologies to Graeme who is probably not insane, but I havent seen any certificate to prove it.

[Sunlit Forres]

Paterson must be stopped. Irreverant humour has no place in orienteering and is destroying the sport.

[mikey]

Very good.

[Freefall]

Mathieson is understood to be Matheson

[graeme]

and "carazy loon" is understood to mean "highly respected professor"

[Big Jon]

Take car Andy - I think the Treason Act still applies - and I'm fairly sure calling Balmoral a "grotty Deeside forest" would count as treason.... so beware the knock on the door - it might be MI6 or the special branch.

[AndyC]

Actually I think the context suggests that Balmoral is the exception to "grotty Deeside forest" that Hitler has forgotten (I do not yet have an opinion).
I'd also suggest that (like the rest of us) graeme might be validly certified due to a possibly perverse obsession with putting on strange (fetish?) clothing and running around like a deranged person and placing an object into an orifice at intervals before discussing the act in details with fellow obsessives (often in a car park or field).

[andypat]

Take car Andy - I think the Treason Act still applies - and I'm fairly sure calling Balmoral a "grotty Deeside forest" would count as treason.... so beware the knock on the door - it might be MI6 or the special branch.

Big Jon I was more worried about a knock on the door from an M50 with a big branch...

Clearly Adolf never experienced Bamoral or he would have a different opinion. I've actually met special branch in the vicinity of Balmoral when out for a walk in the woods with my elderly (now late) Auntie - apparently the Royals were at home - we were out for an early morning walk looking for capercaillie. I think I was lucky I wasnt on my own...

[Roomungous]

Is it Special Branch that arrests you and pokes you in the eye (or thigh) when you are concentrating too hard deciphering Big Jon's map?