RESULTS are here
Planner / organiser’s comments
This is the second Street O that I have planned, the other being one in Hampstead from the Roebuck pub I think in 2016. The area of this event, next to the Heath, is one that I grew up in (control 8 was outside my childhood home). It lies between the Hampstead Street O in the west and the Highgate Street O, earlier this year, in the east.
I wanted to provide the orienteer with the challenge with finding an optimal route when considering the presence of Highgate Hill. I also looked to provide great views from the top of the Holly Lodge, the outskirts of the Heath on a winter’s night, some attractive streets below the start, and variety with housing estates and a denser network of routes in the south-west. The hill was a physical challenge and it meant that no one scored maximum points and came back early, so some success with the optimal route challenge, but probably too much of an influence and physically tough for a weekday evening.
I apologise for the misplacement of the centre point of control 21 on the other side of the road from the substation. David Rosen was very diligent in Controlling but I must have shifted it very slightly by accident in one of the final map iterations.
Thanks to all the volunteers to helped. Chris from SLOW collected the ancient wheely-suitcase with the O-equipment (a legendary artefact?) ready for the next Street O which will be in Chelsea on Tues 9 Jan (link here).
Jon Chandler
