On a lighter note, what are the best unmapped/unused areas for orienteering in the UK?
Anywhere you have always wondered why it hasn't been used?
Best unmapped areas
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Re: Best unmapped areas
I've always thought it a shame that we can't use the Pennine plateau areas such as Kinder, Bleaklow and Black Hill. A fantastic navigational challenge, particularly if in the clag, and runnable all year round. Just too environmentally sensitive at the moment, but maybe one day once the vegetation is fully established?
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Invernaver: 700ha centred on NC691609 - runnable moors, load of rock features, plus birch woodland, sand dunes and a bizarre archaeological moonscape.
One day the S6D will go to the North of Scotland
One day the S6D will go to the North of Scotland
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Re: Best unmapped areas
Grime's Graves, mapped at an appropriately large scale and with a tiny contour interval.
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Re: Best unmapped areas
Shaptor Woods near Bovey Tracey is filled with rock features and generally very runnable. Not mapped as far as I know but big enough for a middle.
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Re: Best unmapped areas
Scott wrote:Grime's Graves, mapped at an appropriately large scale and with a tiny contour interval.
That was mapped in the 70s as part of the Santon Downham map.
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Re: Best unmapped areas
Grime’s Graves? I planned an event there in 1997 and from memory it was typical East Anglian averageness...Scott?
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And graeme, Invernaver sounds amazing. Surely if someone put a decent event on (say the British), people would make the trip? Just the small question of whether you can find an organising team though.
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Re: Best unmapped areas
Buckingham Palace and Gardens would make an interesting sprint area. Slight access problems possibly.
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Arnold wrote:Grime’s Graves? I planned an event there in 1997 and from memory it was typical East Anglian averageness...Scott?
Like I said, you'd need to map it at a suitable scale and with a suitably tiny contour interval (and probably place SI units flat on the ground with no flag). I imagine the surrounding plantation is indeed pretty dull.
Edit - here are interpolated contours from the lidar at 50cm intervals. But note that this whole area is only about 350m by 300m...
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Ah. I think that bit was OOB when I planned.
Not sure many people would make the trip to Suffolk for 0.1 sq km of amazingness?
Not sure many people would make the trip to Suffolk for 0.1 sq km of amazingness?
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Re: Best unmapped areas
urban / sprint areas also...
Thorp Arch Trading Estate, on an old airfield with bunkers remaining.
Longleat Safari Park, plus gardens and a massive maze
Thorp Arch Trading Estate, on an old airfield with bunkers remaining.
Longleat Safari Park, plus gardens and a massive maze
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Re: Best unmapped areas
Hummocky moraines by the Drumochter Pass or the Ling Hut in Torridon. Some interesting new areas under consideration for Lochaber 2021 Scottish 6 Days including the corrie at Aonach Mor and a great bit of (forest) terrain joined on to Arisaig.
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Pendine sand dunes
Cribach above Dan yr ogof caves, Swansea valley
Cribach above Dan yr ogof caves, Swansea valley
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