"Spring is in the air, and transmitters on the air waves”

There wasn’t theme for this year’s Spring event, just once again glorious sunshine to run in for two hours, and the green stuff growing for all its worth. The start was moved slightly away from the car park to avoid giving a straight run in to the K series. The A and F series were that bit further away. There weren’t too many areas of dense growth, so the red transmitters were unlikely to be that difficult, so the “ghost” was intended to give some increased challenge : it was a bit out of the way, it was a bit more difficult to get to through the saplings if you picked the wrong way in, it was near power lines, and you had to work out the best time to go and look for it, and leave enough time to do the rest and return home. As it happened, those who sought the ghost didn’t find it too bad. It was hoped that overall the time taken to complete the circuit would be longer than on the previous event, but when, at 1445, a competitor told me he had finished, I knew that it should probably have been harder. Hiding the triffids well proved quite difficult, and having the green security cord around a branch meant that something was always going to be visible.

At F, the triffid was well hidden in a tree, and the way into it was meant to be by lying on the ground under it. One competitor was seen praying to the tree for guidance (see pictures). Red H was located carefully to avoid a strange weed growing in a bucket which may have distracted competitors.