4th/5th November 2006
Night Event
Stone Hill
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Fir Park
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Day Controller's Report
It was very encouraging to see such a large turnout of orienteers for this event especially the juniors competing for the area
championships. Such a young team captain for the West area, Joe Cherry, shows promising qualities of leadership!
With about 50 mins to go before the first start we found that 4 controls had been interfered with and willfully thrown away so replacing them rather occupied our
time. I suspect a local dog walker, with a grievance of some description, was the
culprit. Time or the lack of it , was partly responsible for the error, on my part, of placing control 165 in the wrong location. Reconnaisance of the map and
of control sites was cut short and hence the error. Fortunately, the competitors times were altered electronically and a results list was
produced that allowed Tinto club to award the trophies for the courses affected.
I was somewhat surprised to learn that there is a minimal number of members in the club and it says a lot for their commitment to the sport
that they organise such demanding events as the Tinto Twin. Moreover as the organiser, Marjorie, added; the computer expertise of Robin Strain and Jackie
is essential to the smooth running of an event.
My thanks to the competitors on courses 9 and 10 affected by the misplaced control, for not complaining too
loudly and thanks to all competitors for running in this 19th Tinto Twin.
Eddie Harvey, ESOC.
Night Planner's Report
Stonehill wood was felled in the mid 1990's and replanted and was getting
particularly thick so starting in the spring we borrowed the services of
the local moto cross bikers club to make trails and open up the rides. They
cut two tunnels through the green up either side of the hill and they worked in
a bikers trial event held in early June with 40 + contestants. Alan Goodall made
his survey in September and Ocad 8 arrived at last on the 13 year old original
map made by Contours. We used as many path route choices as possible and used
the best parts of the map trying to avoid the impenetrable thick bits. The taped
route from the last control was cut, taped and partially carpeted but
still some lost their way on the tapes. Equally the ride to the last 4 controls
on courses 5 and 6 ended in thick green and was shown marginally longer than
actual so this required a navigation fight to the cleared area. We tried to
cut this route to help with this but stopped short of a marked route. Most
competitors made it through but some got stuck and decided to bale out and
go round. Apologies to those who lost time on this leg.
The weather was great and the winning times exactly as expected. Stonehill
provided a good night challenge and a complete contrast to the TT day event at
Fir Park. Many thanks to Ian Pyrah for his very thorough controlling and new map
checking assistance.
Dick Carmichael.
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