Planner’s Report

Well what a beautiful spring day, ideal for orienteering and also building dams in the burn and playing football in the car park. So very different from the two weeks before when the wind was howling, the snow was over my boots and there was ice on all the wet bits! I hope that those who visited the third control on the light green saw the primroses.

This is a lovely corner of Deeside - interesting forest, mostly runnable, a great open moor, which can be trickier than it looks, some fairly substantial climbs and a good though small technical bit.

The white course was very demanding for the young ones and in the summer the bracken on the vegetation corridor would be over head height and completely impassable. So they all did very well.

The yellow and the orange courses did not cause any problems and I think that the orange was   exciting and again quite demanding over the rough ground.

The light green, green and blue courses visited some pleasant parts of the forest and the results showed some good runs.

The brown course had some interesting route  choices and  generated lots of discussion  from the competitive crowd who seemed to enjoy all but the up and over from 6 to 7. Sorry,  that was the payback for that lovely fast open section and I had to get you back to the car park. 

Thank you to all who helped out and all who turned up and commiserations to the Gomersalls for the loss of their car keys.

Jonquil