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The most coveted of the POTOC trophies, the Wooden Spoon is awarded for the biggest orienteering gaffe of the year.
Past holders include the POTOC webmaster, for attempting to compete while carrying a digital camera, whose magnetic field can deflect a compass needle even when the compass is held at arm's length.
Most of the day was spent in looking at others doing the work: Malcolm Duncan digging (the first two holes); Brian Billington, with his bad back, hammering in the nails which showed the post numbers; Sylvia Rowe shovelling with the entrenching tool; Austin grappling with the shove-holer; Barbara quietly overseeing. And so on. The aim was to replace some vandalised permanent course markers and to put in some new ones.
The Speckled Wood can be found in shady woodland rides and clearings from March to October. It rarely visits flowers.
Wild Roses are in flower at Park Hall for most of the summer. Their colour varies from white to the dark pink of this example.
Hulme Quarry was selected as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in order to represent part of Britain's geological history. This site illustrates a time when much of Britain was an arid, hot desert.
The rocks forming the quarry face consist of red pebbly sandstones and conglomerates laid down by a network of powerful streams which crossed the area during the early part of the Triassic period, about 243 million years ago.
The Hedge Brown, or Gatekeeper, can be found in scrubby grassland from June to August. It likes to visit bramble blossom and ragwort.
This picture shows a female; males have a dark scent patch on each forewing.
The Laurie Bradley Memorial Trophy event on New Year's day 2002. It was a long walk to the score event start in the middle of the area.
The lens flare was unintended: I'd carefully positioned the camera in the shadow of a tree, but although the viewfinder was out of the direct sunlight the lens evidently was not.
A busy control at the Laurie Bradley Memorial Trophy event at Swynnerton on New Year's day 2002, shortly before the finish.
The Laurie Bradley Memorial Trophy event on New Year's day 2002. It was a long, and sometimes slippery, walk to the score event start in the middle of the area.
A busy control at the Laurie Bradley Memorial Trophy event at Swynnerton on New Year's day 2002, shortly before the finish.
A correctly-punched control card beside one which was carelessly punched. The photograph has been enhanced to make the punch codes easy to see: the original cards are rather harder to read.
Most of the day was spent in looking at others doing the work: Malcolm Duncan digging (the first two holes); Brian Billington, with his bad back, hammering in the nails which showed the post numbers; Sylvia Rowe shovelling with the entrenching tool; Austin grappling with the shove-holer; Barbara quietly overseeing. And so on. The aim was to replace some vandalised permanent course markers and to put in some new ones.
Revised 21 August 2010 by Dave Sparks
http://www.potoc.dandasparks.org.uk/