Sunday, January 24, 2010

Sunday, Jan 24th, 2010 - Orienteering - the maps



For all the map hungry guys out there, here's a photo of the Orange (long-easy) and Red (long-difficult). The colour on the map means fast running/terrain and in Denmark that would typically be a forest where you can maintain a high speed without having to fight your way through vegetation. Same thing here, except the ubiquitous plants are extremely hostile and makes blackberry bushes feel like soft velvet! The greener the color, the more you have to fight to get through it and over here it's literally impassable. The blue dotted lines are washes/riverbeds and they're all dried out so you can run in them as canals and they're great guidelines in a terrain that lacks other details than height contours. Often they are lined with nearly impenetrable walls of sticky vegetation, so you've gotta find an entrance, find an exit or wear body armor!

2 comments:

Erik SK said...

Hej Claus

Fedt! Spændende læsning. Skummel definition på orange post 6... mellem grøfter, hmm... Den havde vist ikke passeret en banekontrol...

Hyg dig og hils Peter når han kommer.

/Erik SK

Claus Bech said...

Hej Erik, det var en meget anderledes oplevelse, da man hele tiden fik øje for flere detaljer pa kortet. Jeg havde dog rigeligt at gøre med at holde mig midt på stierne og undgå at blive ramt af de sylespidse kaktusser. Absolut anbefalelsesværdigt og samme (høje) standard som i DK, mht. løbsafvikling. Området bliver også brugt til MTB, men det så om muligt endnu mere forrykt ud, mht. hud og dæk... Held og lykke med træningen hjemme i frostboksen, jeg kan se du har godt fat allerede, Claus