by phil cheek » Fri Nov 25, 2011 11:36 am
I`m away & am NOT volunteering to flag it again.
But the GPS grid refs are available(Jules,Ewan) so you could check that have actually found each "control".At Sunday group pace it`s a 3 hour+ job even if you make no nav errors.
Brian,the wolf was on your bit at Parks where we both chatted to the dog`s friendly owner.
Kath,the issue at 16 was that there are 2 bridges within a few yards of each other over the same stream.If you were going up or down the footpath you were bound to find the right one.But if like Jules you approached via the lawn,manholes,or indeed via the kitchen in the hope of leftovers from supper,you could go straight to the lower bridge & conclude that the farmer had taken his revenge by removing the control.
The most difficult control was probably 2.Again the cause was 2 bridges very close together on the same stream.The path from 3,4 or 18 led you to an obvious flat open bridge which it turns out was NOT on the footpath on the map,which doubled back on itself to a wooden railed bridge well hidden by gorse 100yards northeast.If you went to the obvious(wrong) bridge you were led up the wrong wall & missed the control.Until I went down from SpringHead to it yesterday I didn`t know the wooden bridge was there.Did anybody find the right bridge from the north I wonder?
In retrospect that bit was almost impossible to get right in the dark.
Phil
Phil