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Jul 2023
6:28pm, 30 Jul 2023
2,248 posts
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RooA
😂 Oh you've got to love the sand dunes!
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Jul 2023
6:57pm, 30 Jul 2023
26,581 posts
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Angus Clydesdale
Oh, that looks nasty….
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Jul 2023
7:54pm, 30 Jul 2023
3,737 posts
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Oranj
Sand dunes in general are not too bad for navigation - I coped OK with them at the Caddihoe (Cornwall) event in 2017 as they were nice and open, you could run bearings, sight distant markers, etc.
What you get in Moray are sand dunes buried in open forest (the white areas). It is stupidly difficult to keep track of where you are - my only visit there was for a 2-day event in 2016. I managed OK on the first day and then got over-confident on the second!
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Jul 2023
8:27pm, 30 Jul 2023
1,713 posts
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Shortcut Cam
It was difficult to keep track. Slightest compass baring error and you’re screwed. Couldn’t make the ground fit the map and vice versa. Extremely difficult trying to relocate.
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Jul 2023
9:06pm, 30 Jul 2023
11,414 posts
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Fragile Do Not Bend
I feel knackered just thinking of tying to run around sand dunes.
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Jul 2023
1:51pm, 31 Jul 2023
1,714 posts
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Shortcut Cam
Day 2 and much easier after yesterday. Hard to believe it’s the same scale map 1:7500
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Jul 2023
5:54pm, 31 Jul 2023
20,668 posts
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rf_fozzy
When I ran at darnaway in 2015, there were some lovely runnable bits but also a lot of absolute grot
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Jul 2023
5:55pm, 31 Jul 2023
20,669 posts
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rf_fozzy
Some odd circle cutting there.
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Jul 2023
6:25pm, 31 Jul 2023
1,632 posts
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JenHB
I can remember doing orienteering on sand dunes in the past - it was tough! I'm sure where I was the contour interval was also 2.5m.....
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Jul 2023
10:50pm, 31 Jul 2023
1,715 posts
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Shortcut Cam
9-10 confused me. Didn’t realise 10 had a cut until afterwards. I stayed high when I actually had to drop. Oddly enough, 1:10000 map was easier to interpret.
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Virtual Orienteering
Nov 2024