An old drawn five colour map extract with course. Rather a lot of green forest. Steep.
Elibank and Traquair. Event was in 1981 but map older. Extract from a large sheet. #OldOrienteeringMap #Map #Orienteering #ESOC #RoxburghReivers
Some of the area is still used and quite good quality. Lovely forest to visit
Scribed orienteering map of an area of open dunes and slow sycamore woodland on sandy soils. A lot of green woodland with clearings and most of the dunes are rough open. A big golf course (yellow) lies to the south and the north is bounded by the Firth of Forth.
Gullane Dunes and Archerfield Estate 1979. Much of the area - the wooded bit to the east has been lost to golf and the big southern open area is the famous Muirfield course. Dunes are still used and hosted the Scottish Championships. #OldOrienteeringMap #Orienteering #Map #Interlopers #EastLothian
A small 1:15,000 orienteering map by Harveys A mostly runnable woodland surrounded by farmland and rough grazing. Some of the outer open area was used in this event. My progress around a M21L course is drawn on the map.
Dalswinton 1981, Harvey's Map Service. Once again an area that was mostly felled after use. It was excellent terrain at the time. Usual Harveys clarity. The forest, now mainly Sitka is just north of Dumfries. #OldOrienteeringMaps #Orienteering #Maps #SolwayOrienteers
A pair of copies of a 1:10000 five coloured scribed orienteering map. It is of two woods on a valley side divided by arable land. Very runnable. Attractively presented in the style popularised by the Harvey's at the time.
Waterhouses 1981. Near Durham and used for BUSF (the universities championships of the time) individual. The course was on two maps. #OldOrienteeringMaps #Orienteering #UniversityOfDurham #Maps
Five colour orienteering map of a very runnable forest. There is a road running through it and both halves are white with a ride pattern. Scale 1:10000
Kellas Plantation 1981 - a football pitch with trees on it. Long disappeared from the fixtures and known to have been clear felled since the University relay championships in 1981
#OldOrienteeringMaps #NorthernNavigators #Orienteering #Map
@wiringthebrain.bsky.social I appreciated the "Systems course" share yesterday!
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& the "practice of imagination" for any learner "so willing", then, to "get to" build any level of degree, to do the work & to hold self & t'be held accountable to it, indeed!
"Where on a map are we?"
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A table with lots of trophies on it
While being the chairman of West Anglian #Orienteering Club means I need to prepare and deliver a talk at the AGM, the upside is I get to give out all the trophies celebrating our club's successes over the last year 🏆
#NorthGloucestershireOrienteeringClub's NGOC 2026 League 4 - Coopers Hill #orienteering event (29/03) entries are live #Fabian4Entries flagship series of 12 events, roughly evenly-spaced thru out the yr taking place across Glos. Open to all. www.fabian4.co.uk/default.aspx...
#MarocOrienteeringClub - MAROC's Bogendreip East Regional #orienteering event (22/03) entries are live #Fabian4Entries Regional Event for all abilities with a full suite of Colour-coded courses for all abilities from White to Brown. This is a BOF Ranking Event. www.fabian4.co.uk/default.aspx...
MrFab4 was on the podium at the Welsh/British #orienteering Long Distance Champs on Sat finishing 2nd in Wales & 35th in Britain. He was then in charge of 'tecchy stuff' at the Relay event on Sun & ran on 1 of the SWOC teams.I was #roadbiking/#mtbing here in Snowdonia #keepingfit
#SouthYorkshireOrienteers' Canklow Regional & Yvette Baker Trophy Round #orienteering event (12/04) enries are live #Fabian4Entries This regional event incorporates a qualifying round for the Yvette Baker Trophy/Shield inter-club junior competition
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#PotteriesOrienteeringClub's POTOC & WML 4 & YB Round - Whitfield Valley #orienteering event (29/03) entries are live #Fabian4Entries www.fabian4.co.uk/default.aspx...
#OctavianDroobersOrienteeringClub's Hartshill Hayes Local #orienteering event (07/03) entries are live #Fabian4Entries Suitable for everyone from the absolute beginner (help a& advice available) to the experienced orienteer. www.fabian4.co.uk/default.aspx...
#SELancsOrienteeringClub's SELOC Saturday - Queen's Park (Bolton) #orienteering event (07/03) entries are live #Fabian4Entries SELOC's Saturday series events are ideal for newcomers as well as offering a technical course for more established orienteers. www.fabian4.co.uk/default.aspx...
#NorthGloucestershireOrienteeringClub's Welsh & NGOC 2026 League - Merthyr Mawr #orienteering event (14/03) entries are live #Fabian4Entries The club's open to all flagship series of 12 events evenly-spaced thru out the yr taking place across Glos. www.fabian4.co.uk/default.aspx...
Recce of my #gladstone9 #fellrace here in the N Carneddau with buddies yest while Mr Fab4 was #orienteering & on duty at the download tent at SWOC's Local Llantrisant Forest event.
We love our #mountainadventures
A rather distinctive orienteering map of a conifer plantation in North Wales. The highest point in the forest is around 500m. The map uses a very bluish colour for the green screen as was popular with the EBOR maps of th time. Lots of rides divide the forest up and there are some areas of moorland. Scale is 1:20000 which was pretty well obsolete by 1981.
Clocaenog, 1981. Even at the time this map felt a bit retro - 1:20000 scale and of an upland Sitka plantation. Does anyone still use them anymore - oh hello ELO.
The bit below the road to the south was used a bit later as Bod Petrural. #OldOrienteeringMap #Orienteering #Map #DeesideOrieteeringClub
Five colour orienteering map, 1:10000. As usual with Dave Gittus' maps the surrounding land is filled in with yellow for the fields. There are two small woodlands, both mostly runnable. Used as a warm up for the JK event Easter 1981.
Lizard Hill and the Gallops 1981 Dave Gittus & #WrekinOrienteers Warm up for the #JK 1981. I walked to the event from Shifnal Station on Good Friday. 2018 version: www.wrekin.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#15
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The western half of the Beaudesert map used for the two classic races at the 1981 Jan Kjelstrom Orienteering festival. Very runnable forest with lots of spurs and reentrants with a few big clearfell area. Now a popular mountain biking venue and still used for major orienteering events.
Beaudesert 1981. The other half of the #JK map used on the first day of the event. In those days there were two long distance classic races and a replay in the prestigious race. #OldOrienteeringMaps #Maps #Orienteering #CannockChase Cunning #Running #WaltonChasers
M19 course on a 1:15,000 orienteering map. Mostly runnable forest with lots of mining relics and a hill fort to the south.
Eastern part of the Beaudesert #JK map from 1981. #CannockChase #Orienteering #Maps #OldOrienteeringMap
#WrekinOrienteers WML - Long Mynd #orienteering event (14/02) entries are live #Fabian4Entries Colour coded event forming part of the 2026 West Midlands League. www.fabian4.co.uk/default.aspx...
A small 1:15,000 map with a lot of one way runnability giving it a very stripy appearance. Overprinted with a JK1981 course.
Bishop's Wood 1981. This Staffordshire pine wood contains the remains of an old glass factory. It was used a lot between 1976 and 1986 but has long been missing from the fixture lists. #OldOrienteeringMap #Orienteering #Map #WrekinOrienteers This was my last ever run in the #JK.
