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Orienteering...anyone tried this?

Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 9:03 pm
by Michael
Sounds great to me apart from the need to wear tight trousers.... :shock:

Wondering what anyone has thought of it....!

Cheers
Mike

Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 9:05 pm
by Andy G
is this not where you run around the countryside looking for checkpoints in a race - of the running variety?

If so, where does the need for tight trousers come from?

Re: Orienteering...anyone tried this?

Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 9:08 pm
by Dominic
Michael wrote:Sounds great to me apart from the need to wear tight trousers.... :shock:

Wondering what anyone has thought of it....!

Cheers
Mike
Yes, but in cars. Was called a scatter rally, and are great fun!

Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 9:14 pm
by Michael
Rally sounds great!! :D

...ah...em..the "trousers" are apparently to protect your legs from damage from bushes and stuff because its all cross country and can get quite rough...well, thats what they say.... :shock:

Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 9:21 pm
by thinfourth
Or in a forest with big fecking landrovers

8th of april at potarch forest

Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 9:23 pm
by gorrie
Did orienteering in the daylight in Fort William.

Then again 2 days later in the pitch black in. 4 of us bundled in to the back of a Transit van, driven for 10mins and dumped...
"find your way back and you're not allowed on the roads... you must pick up 3 flags along the way, and you'd better work out where you are 1st"

Comedians those Outward Bound people... quite un-nerving seeing all these eyes looking at you in the dark, until you realise they are just sheep eyes reflecting with your torchy/hat thing.

Good fun though.