Discussion: York

Never fear, we've never had any orienteering events anywhere near there and we never will.

I'm quite interested to know what "crimina damage" is (deputy editor Kate Hedley should be ashamed).

Ricky: you mean apart from the 2006 Aust Sprint Champs in York, where people apparently started by running down the ramp off the back of a truck?
(sadly the link to that event from the OA results archive seems to no longer exist)

I have a file on my computer but haven't uploaded it yet. I think it's also on Winsplits.

And I can vouch for the ramp: something I got a good look at because I was staying in the pub and my window overlooked the start (an experience we were to repeat a few years later at WMOC in Hungary).

At the Oceania? Champs at Sedgwick a few years back, the elites started out of the back of the truck that I drive for the Nursery

Sounds like this event of which you speak fell off the back of a truck.

Unfortunately my orienteering career (the foot variety) commenced in 2007 (as for MTBO, well that began at a national level immediately after this made up York event, down at Wellington Dam - I had started local MTBO the prior year in 2005) so 2006 didn't really exist.

That ramp was actually on the back of a vintage (1920s?) flatbed truck. When setting the event, I went into the Motor Museum to discuss the closing of the main road, and the owner not only approved and signed my form, but offered the use of a couple of vehicles. The other one was a 1910s bus, which was used by the commentary team, and parked outside the Court House referred to in Blair's linked article.

Thanks simmo for that explanation - loved the York part of that Aus champs.

tRicky you can run the Sprint, and a Street-O next time you're in York. I'm looking at putting the street course on MapRun.

I don't remember the last time I was in York. Is the map still accurate after 14 years?

The latest aerials don't show a lot of change.

I expect there's no need to take aerials of York too often.

Pretty sure the IGA supermarket's been rebuilt since 2006 (but in the same place).

The cathedral burnt down but I think it has been restored

York, where everything gets replaced with more of the same. I expect the town planning committee has a pretty easy job.

Sadly, Boof the huge hairy beer-drinking pig is no longer alive, but he was quite a tourist attraction during Easter 1993.

And what was then the YHA, where we got in trouble for hanging our washing out on the heritage-listed balcony, has reinvented itself as a fancy B&B, but in its DNA Faversham House is still the same...

Literal or metaphorical pig? Either seems to work with the impression I'm getting from some of this thread

Absolutely materially porcine - Boof was one of the living attractions at historic Balladong Farm!
(I can't now be certain that he was a boozer; I may be getting confused with the renowned beer-drinking pig at the Pub In The Paddock at Pyengana in Tasmania)