Purple Thistle

[brooner]

I am already excited about the weekend - fingers crossed for sunshine!!

Join the club!

Currently it looks like we'll get rained on, and competitors will get sunshine, but in true west coast fashion we'll never know until we get there...
http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/7da ... pcode=Oban
although bbc see it differently!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?id=2987

Full details are available on the website here:
http://www.purple-thistle.co.uk/08/event-info-page.html
or are available to download here:
http://www.purple-thistle.co.uk/08/final-details.pdf
and a helpful overview map of the area, showing all you need to know is available here:
http://bit.ly/PT08_Map

If anyone can offer lifts to/from Glasgow please get in touch.

[Becks]

Can anyone give me a lift from Edinburgh on Friday? Mine has fallen through.

Cheers!

[EddieH]

The weather forecast has been looking REALLY wet for almost all the time, but suddenly it begins to look as though only the sprint will get caught with the rain assing overnight

[greywolf]

Kerrera was great, lovely views to take your mind off the slog, and EddieH's weather forecast was spot on...my thanks to the Nope posse and Ecko

[Sheila S.]

Brill weekend - well done to all involved in putting it on.

[EddieH]

You've managed it again. West Coast end of August and not a midge to be seen despite a beautiful calm Friday evening

Well done for getting it all together including the sprint.

I like this sprint in the evening idea and it would be particularly good when the day courses have been a little less tough.

[SJ]

Thanks to the team for a great event - a very relaxing trip, due to the basic format of no start times etc (the hills and tough nav were more challenged than relaxing...)

I loved the sprint - despite the rain it added to the social side.

With 7.5 hours of orienteering within a space of 28 hours, plus a campsite with soft grass, very good value for money too!

[mike g]

Yep, big cheers to brooner, wattok, ed and everyone else involved. Best weekend of the year, just as it was in 2006.

[distracted]

Just to add my thanks to the Nope organising/planning team as well as the SI crew and the few extra helpers - a perfect demonstration of how to organise and run two days of top-notch orienteering on cracking areas, plus a sprint thrown into the mix as well, with minimal fuss and without the need for dozens of volunteers. Most definitely worth the long weekend up in Scotland - would highly recommend it to everyone!

[janeho]

We'll add our thanks too.
We liked kerrera in particular. We failed to get our kids onto the baby thistle though - they were having too much fun playing on the beach.
Nice campsite and not a midge in sight.