Discussion: Swiss Maps
in: Orienteering; General
Oct 26, 2002 6:26 AM
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Hi. I scanned in a bunch of maps that James, Sandra and I ran on in Switzerland 3 weeks ago. These were part of the official WOC training package, but we were there a week after so there were no controls in the woods. I can't remember which of these is relevant for which races, but James knows. The two maps in the alps (mostly yellow and extremely steep) are not WOC maps - we ran at an A-meet up there on the last 3 days. It was snowing on the Grosse Scheidegg map at the start above 2000m, and raining below that. Had a 30 minute gondola ride to the start. The maps are in .jpg (smaller file size), uncompressed .tif and gzipped .tif. All are 150 DPI. The 24-bit tifs are best for printing.
The WOC terrain was generally steep, with lots of roads and trails, and the woods - as seems to be the norm for WOC/training maps - were mostly thick. The nicest area we ran at was just north of Bern, but we borrowed that map from Sandra and I don't have a copy (Burgdorf). That was the only one I saw that had the feel of French Creek, although there were more roads. The other maps had thicker woods and were steep. Some, like the , had too much detail. The area from controls 1-5 on there was extremely thick and was rife with massive grass-covered knolls in the forest. I went in off the field corner and around the giant cliff and 3 steps later I was lost. The area around #11 was pretty nice though. I think the entire continent is covered with slash. It was everywhere, and none of it was mapped as undergrowth. The worst slash area was the Barburg map. 5th control from the end was case-in-point. The entire hillside there was covered with waist-deep slash. I went down there and couldn't find a single boulder, as they were all buried under slash. And it wasn't particularly recent. Looked to me like it was cut a year previous. Why they would set a control in that crap is beyond me. Also the so called ride into the clearing before the next control was a steeplechase of felled logs.
But that day was salvaged when we drove by the http://www.trubschachen.ch/pic/index_2.JPG> Kambly cookie factory on the way back to Bern. Sandra just casually mentioned that they had a factory store that sells seconds. James' driving is nothing to laugh at, but I swear we fishtailed when pulling into the parking lot! All you can eat free samples of the best chocolate-filled, chocolate covered and just plain chocolate with some bits of cookie thrown in. We bought 6 kilos.
The WOC terrain was generally steep, with lots of roads and trails, and the woods - as seems to be the norm for WOC/training maps - were mostly thick. The nicest area we ran at was just north of Bern, but we borrowed that map from Sandra and I don't have a copy (Burgdorf). That was the only one I saw that had the feel of French Creek, although there were more roads. The other maps had thicker woods and were steep. Some, like the , had too much detail. The area from controls 1-5 on there was extremely thick and was rife with massive grass-covered knolls in the forest. I went in off the field corner and around the giant cliff and 3 steps later I was lost. The area around #11 was pretty nice though. I think the entire continent is covered with slash. It was everywhere, and none of it was mapped as undergrowth. The worst slash area was the Barburg map. 5th control from the end was case-in-point. The entire hillside there was covered with waist-deep slash. I went down there and couldn't find a single boulder, as they were all buried under slash. And it wasn't particularly recent. Looked to me like it was cut a year previous. Why they would set a control in that crap is beyond me. Also the so called ride into the clearing before the next control was a steeplechase of felled logs.
But that day was salvaged when we drove by the http://www.trubschachen.ch/pic/index_2.JPG> Kambly cookie factory on the way back to Bern. Sandra just casually mentioned that they had a factory store that sells seconds. James' driving is nothing to laugh at, but I swear we fishtailed when pulling into the parking lot! All you can eat free samples of the best chocolate-filled, chocolate covered and just plain chocolate with some bits of cookie thrown in. We bought 6 kilos.
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