The ground was becoming boggy, and this water-filled ditch was surely that blue dotted line on the map. That meant I had gone too far. That meant I had missed a control that was so close to the fence the two map symbols were touching. How could I have missed it? Answer: By running along the wrong fence. I turn and look south. I can make out two fence posts and then nothing. I look at the map. An intact fence and, just to the south, a broken one with the control. I had wondered about the slight turn in the fence going the opposite way to that on the map. This explained it. Up to that point, the “Birthday Bash” celebration course hosted by BASOC in Dulnain Wood near Grantown-on-Spey had been going better than usual. Not perfect, of course. I remain inexplicably incapable of sticking to a bearing. I always go left, to the point that now I follow the bearing and then look to the right. Is it because of that broken bone in my left leg I never got properly fixed? Or am I turning my wrist? Wh...
Orienteering - or something like it