Orienteering

We had some more visitors who were making maps and checking courses. The weather was fantastic, but their news were more and more dispiriting as the week went along. As it happens, the forester finally responded to the land permission request in the negative. Considering that he received the first request back in November it was very kind of him. He gave the reason as the felling in the middle of the map why he was not prepared to put anything in writing, but then exploded the bombshell of expressing no objection to the event going ahead. I think his words were something like: "I don't care what you do, but I am not putting anything in writing!" Strange!! Or perhaps not! Having experienced a myriad of peculiarities in these parts for more years than I care to mention, nothing should surprise me any more!!

As you can see we went orienteering yesterday and today, which was quite interesting. The mountainous terrain with its steep hillsides, typical gully spur terrain, lots of pits and other point features was very physical and technical. I did about 15 minute km's on Day 1 and nearer 18 minute km's on Day 2 and still won on the first day in W60 and was second in W55 on Day 2. They don't have too many events on this map, that is why I went. There are two more events at the weekend, but I am giving those a miss to have a rest before next week's further visitors and geocaching. With any luck I should be able to put out my first cache sometime next week.