Chamonix Mountains

Chamonix Mountains

Saturday 12 March 2016

Blyth Sands Orienteering with the Little People

With Cutie needing just one more completion to make up her 4 scores in the Winter LOP series, we headed up to Blyth. It is not an area that I know and I was pleasantly surprised to find a lovely sea front with play areas, beach huts and a cafe. 
Today we chose the age-appropriate yellow course, oriented the map at an unusual angle, as North was not shown as vertically up, and headed off towards the dunes! 


Control 1 was easily found on the signpost but 2 was slightly more tricky. In finding it, I realised which map lines referred to which paths and we were then able to race around the route to the exciting sounding 'cave' at 3. The hardest one for the girls was 4 as I took the direct route choice across the sand! We quickly found 5 and Cutie was revved up for a run along the path to 6! We let the Popstar catch up before I send Cutie from the last control at 7, along the footpath to the car park finish. The registration car had had to move slightly which made her slow down enough that I managed to catch her back up and watch her cross the car park and finish. Phew! I went back to collect up the other one who was almost at the car park by now, too. Another great route and super speedy running by the smallest member of the family!! It was agreed that the play areas and ice creams needed investigating! 


Lovely to find a new area - we might return for another ice cream!
Cutie awaits the series results....

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