Chris un-Burdened
Classic orienteering at Holme Fell
Chris Burden's efforts in controlling the Lakeland event were repaid with a glorious day and superb orienteering. The rare challenge of having to interpret the brown lines on the map led to many mistakes. Parallel errors - mistaking one feature for another similar feature - were easily made. Clear attack points, augmented by good map reading and checking direction were the order of the day.
Tony Thornley's route in the tricky area near the start
Thanks to Lakeland, and to Chris, for a good day out.
Short Blue 2 needed careful fine navigation at the start. Tony got it pretty much right 2 to 4, 5 to 6 and 7 to 9. His technique was to use the compass for direction, then tick of the big features - e.g. quarry 1-2; marsh, spur and stream 2-3; big reentrant, craggy spur and knolls 8-9. Where he went wrong he lost touch with the map. So 4-5 should have kept on a rough bearing to the stream and the reentrant with the marsh in it. And 6-7 good up to the marsh before the control, then failed to check direction and climb sufficiently into the control. Lessons: check the compass more often; select the big obvious features to aim for.