Event Cancellation

[Tatty]

What is the strangest reason for cancelling an event? NWO's event on Sunday has been cancelled due to ..................bluebells!!!!

[Kitch]

they can be uncommonly slippery

[DesignatedDriver]

how bizarre

in 21 years, i can only remember two events being cancelled.

one due to a blizzard - you honestly could not see two feet in front of you!

and the other was due to heavy snow fall (day2 of JK)


there must have been more. my memory must just be awful.

[Andy.T]

Many events got cancelled a few years ago due to the infamous

FOOT AND MOUTH

(eg. Shining Cliff, DVO)

But Bluebells is the wierdest yet!

Andy.T

[PeterG]

I guess I'm the only one who read that as blueballs

[mharky]

is he still allowed to post on here?

[Gross]

elite test in 1999 in Glendye was cancelled due to flooding... impossible to get near the forest... it was being used as a test race by Sweden, Finland & Norway:)

[Jon X]

elite test in 1999 in Glendye was cancelled due to flooding

I remember that. Rob Hart had brought a car load of clubmates over from Sweden for the elite tests and then the JK in Wales the following weekend

1st Saturday - elite test short race, final void as a control for the final collected in by mistake when the prologue controls collected.
1st Sunday - elite test long race cancelled because of flooding.
2nd Saturday - JK elite short race allowed to stand despite dodgy crossing point and one control hung on the wrong crag.
2nd Sunday - JK elite long race cancelled because of overnight snow making the rocks slippery or some such reason.

Bet they were really glad they came to Britain for their Easter races!

[rocky]

wasn't the welsh jk in '98?

[Tatty]

Some of the courses were cancelled, depending on which start you were goin gfrom. I had my race, very badly, whereas others went out although their races were offically cancelled!!

[the duncan]

that was well funny, all the wee kids and old grannies/granddads could race in all the snow, but the fitest/strongest runners were not allowed to!

you have to laugh really!!

[guest]

Why are events in the NE always being cancelled - there's another one next week - didn't they pull out of a schools champs or something a while backl and wern't they meant to do next year's JK - what's going on up there?

[HOCOLITE]

Guest. I don't know anything about the event in the NE but if it were a badge event it might have been cancelled due to economic viability. NE events are not well supported, and numbers for badge events this weekend are likely to be down slightly due to BEOC sprint and the fact Rownley Warren is now a WRE. Unfortunately the info on BOF web site doesn't give a reason. I've looked again and it is a district which I believe is colour coded so the above is irrelevant to that event.

[rocky]

what a worthwhile post.

[Ed]

Newcastle and Tyneside Orienteers regret that the event scheduled for May 21st at Bull Crag (North Tyne) has had to be postponed to a date yet to be determined because of map updating difficulties