New sprint race venues?

[Simon E]

Not quite what you may have been expecting, but what about an oil rig in the North Sea?

[Wattok]

brilliant. On a similar theme, there was some O on HMS Belfast at the London Rat Race, no running and just 3 controls but was good craic all the same!

[Gnitworp]

Anyone else remember the 'North Sea Score Event' held on the Immingham - Gothenberg car ferry on the way to the O Ringen in the early 70'? or was it on the way back?

[Adventure Racer]

That O on HMS Belfast was a lot harder than I expected - easy to make mistakes when working in 3 dimensions. Any suggestions for a good venue for some proper 3DO - preferably where you're allowed to run (though Skyhigh was very happy we had to walk at that stage of the Rat Race)?

[jkjuggler]

We've been thinking of underground-O. Plenty of possibilities for 3D-O there. Might be more of a crawl race than a sprint though.

[slang]

I remember hearing of an underground Mine-O with several levels. Near Bristol in the early 90's. But I might be too gullible.

[mikey]

I remember hearing of an underground Mine-O with several levels. Near Bristol in the early 90's. But I might be too gullible.

JK89

Underground orienteering at Monkton Farleigh Bath Stone Mine

2 courses all underground looking for road cones.

1:2500 map

[Tatty]

It was all in the dark, so the only ligthing was from headlights

[drobin]

I like to think I organised the first North Sea Score event - en route with the BOF tour to O-Ringen 1972. I remember one of the 'controls' being the serial number of a one armed bandit . . .

Mark Blackstone (ex LOK), now BOK mapped/organised the first daytime night event at Chislehurst (Kent) caves back in the late 70s/early 80s.

[Simon E]

I remember hearing of an underground Mine-O with several levels. Near Bristol in the early 90's. But I might be too gullible.

Monkton Farleigh was a mere pretender. LOK got there two years earlier with an underground event in Chislehurst Caves near Croydon. Read all about it in an article by Ian Gilliver describing the event, and see the map here.

[IanD]

I've heard stories of Chislehurst Caves, but it was before I started orienteering. What about LOK organising a re-run? I fancy a midsummer, midday, SENiLe (South East Night League) event.

[roadrunner]

I agree with IanD - a re-run would be great (especially as I didn't do the original). Monkton Farleigh was excellent as well - if I remember rightly, wasn't that the first event to use a double-sided map?

[slang]

I agree with IanD - a re-run would be great (especially as I didn't do the original). Monkton Farleigh was excellent as well - if I remember rightly, wasn't that the first event to use a double-sided map?

I would be tempted, all the way from Stockport, to experience the novelty. It's got me wondering if Stockport's Air Raid Shelter would be suitable.

[Adventure Racer]

I'm reminded that the biggest Rat Race navigational challenge was probably in the Redcliffe Caves in the first Bristol Rat Race. Only 2D and pretty small, but several more renowned navigators than me lost significant amounts of time in there!

[brooner]

trying to make the map for that redcliffe caves challenge decipherable was a real challenge too... I'm just gutted I never got the chance to go down there.

hearing about the nottingham cave network recently, would it be suitable for something orienteering-wise?

Chislehurst looks amazing.