CROESO - What was your favourite day?

[Oldman]

Sincere apologies! I was so shocked by the vehemence of your comments and the contrast with my own that I went and checked my map again and found I didn't have 183 as a control

[EddieH]

I did and I think that the eastern of the 2 gullies went further than mapped, but the World is not black and white,- somewhere the mapper has to decide where a feature ends. Similarly a mapper has to decide what vegetation to map and unless there is a line of black dots there is no reason to expect boundaries to be distinct.

I lost a little time there and didn't think it the greatest site ever, but I blame myself for being too far south in the first place.

[LostAgain]

I agree with Eddie, I was also a little south of the control.
Went through the area and only went across 1 ditch, looked for 2nd but quickly realised there was no 2nd at the point I passed through so looked North and found the 2 ditches and control 183 on the first. Agree seemed further up than expected but put it down to my own navigation.

Thought the platform (course 5) before this was more ambigous and further down the stream than I expected. But again blame myself.

[Eeyore]

I enjoyed the whole event; low key but well organised and friendly. I thought the best day was at The Blorenge for the very reasons that most disliked it. The terrain was a great leveller; those who can run fast were slowed down by the lack of paths and the tussocky nature of the vegetation. I thought the controls were quite fair on my course as there were sufficient features to attack the sites successfully.

I didn't like Wentwood as it mostly a grotty forest and the vegetation on the map was not very reliable and some features were missed. The area NE of the road at the end was especially bad with missing streams and gullies.

The other areas were really good and the courses fair and punished poor route choice and losing contact with the map.

[madmike]

I thought all the areas and maps were of high quality, though I was totally incapable of running through the Blorenge terrain. Probably enjoyed Day 5 most, due to the sun and some long legs which I always love.
Brian

Brian, I found the same thing - in my view the physicality overwhelmed the technicality on Blorenge - orienteering 50% physical 50% technical but with navigation decisive. Methinks not on that area as Ifell over everytime I tried to run on the long leg!

To be clear Blorenge was a very well planned event and it is the terrain that is the issue for me not anything done by the org/planning team. I really enjoyed all 6 days.

Days 1,2 and 6 met the 50/50 best in my humble opinion