HowardSteele Posted January 22, 2016 Posted January 22, 2016 Always been keen on this and the guys up North are seriously organised http://www.orienteering.co.za/event-calendar/mountain-bike-orienteering/ Cape town has active walking running orienteering clubs but as far as i can locate,no mtnbike orienteering clubsIf i'm not mistaken there was only one event in the western cape in 2015 and I was busy that weekend.Anybody Starting a club or keen to start something hosting a few more events throughout the year.
R-squared Posted January 22, 2016 Posted January 22, 2016 Always been keen on this and the guys up North are seriously organised http://www.orienteering.co.za/event-calendar/mountain-bike-orienteering/ Cape town has active walking running orienteering clubs but as far as i can locate,no mtnbike orienteering clubsIf i'm not mistaken there was only one event in the western cape in 2015 and I was busy that weekend.Anybody Starting a club or keen to start something hosting a few more events throughout the year. A sad story indeed - we need to go to Mpumalanga for decent foot-O now! The recent fires and the continued harvesting in the Western Cape forests have severely reduced the terrain we have for foot-O. At present we are struggling to find areas suitable for any form of orienteering - urban/ park events are all that beckon currently. We had planned on an event in Lebanon later this year but that area looks to have been devastated. The prospect for foot-O and hence MTB-O in the near future looks a little bleak. Other potential areas have included Jonkershoek, Grabouw Klipdrif, Eikenhof, Highlands and Nuweberg areas but all have been badly damaged by fire or felling recently. For O you need terrain and a map - unfortunately most of our mapped areas are no longer useable and the areas we have mapped and useable are not that suitable for cycling.
Lifer Posted January 25, 2016 Posted January 25, 2016 A sad story indeed - we need to go to Mpumalanga for decent foot-O now! The recent fires and the continued harvesting in the Western Cape forests have severely reduced the terrain we have for foot-O. At present we are struggling to find areas suitable for any form of orienteering - urban/ park events are all that beckon currently. We had planned on an event in Lebanon later this year but that area looks to have been devastated. The prospect for foot-O and hence MTB-O in the near future looks a little bleak. Other potential areas have included Jonkershoek, Grabouw Klipdrif, Eikenhof, Highlands and Nuweberg areas but all have been badly damaged by fire or felling recently. For O you need terrain and a map - unfortunately most of our mapped areas are no longer useable and the areas we have mapped and useable are not that suitable for cycling.I recon Jonkers may work for a MTB-O, even post fires...
R-squared Posted January 25, 2016 Posted January 25, 2016 I recon Jonkers may work for a MTB-O, even post fires...There are other possibilities including some of the MTB areas like Oak Valley - problem is that maps are expensive and time-consuming to prepare to adequate standards. OV are not very keen on foot-O at present, as by it's nature it requires shortest fastest (usually cross-country) route. Our current OV map covers only a small part of the farm (the most interesting for foot-O). To expand this or to re-map JH after fires (even to the less demanding MTB-O standards) will take time, money and dedication. If the demand is there, these might be available. Some of our previous attempts at MTB-O have been well received but by relatively few individuals (perhaps better marketing is needed?).
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