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orienteering news, thursday 29th march 2007, 8:23pm

image: BargensdorferWald
BargensdorferWald

Going orienteering is currently enough of a rarity to be worth writing about. Since the club was organising a weekend in Neubrandenburg then I got asked to hang controls for the ultra-long on the Sunday in Brodaer Holz (map below), but got to run in the middle-distance in Bargensdorfer Wald (map above). Both are generally very nice runnable deciduous forest, the difference being that Broda has some serious contours whereas Bargensdorf has some vague brown spaghetti occasionally.

Despite Nils trying to scupper my chances with a serious warm-up in Nemerower Holz, just across the road from Bargensdorfer Wald but looking more like Broda (to be expected, since it faces Broda across the lake), which involved basically running down one ridge, along the lake-shore for a bit and then back up another ridge. Since running is something I'm not managing to do at the minute then I'd had just about enough by the uphill bit... but although I may not be able to run that well, my navigation still seems to be ok since I had a pretty good run (and beat Nils by a minute).

The Sunday was livened up by keeping an eye out for the forester who wasn't too happy with the event, and had tried putting half the forest OOB on the Wednesday before the event. Apparently he confiscated one of the controls, so interesting times are ahead for access to that forest...

image: Brodaer Holz
Brodaer Holz

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