{"id":2341,"date":"2011-01-15T19:39:49","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T18:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=2341"},"modified":"2011-01-15T19:51:51","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T18:51:51","slug":"mtbo-mapping-hanchurch-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=2341","title":{"rendered":"MTBO Mapping, Hanchurch Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/01\/dh2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2344 alignright\" title=\"DownHill Hanchurch Woods\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/01\/dh2-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/01\/dh2-213x300.jpg 213w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/01\/dh2-106x150.jpg 106w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/01\/dh2-400x561.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/01\/dh2.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/01\/dh1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2342\" title=\"dh1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/2010pics\/2011\/01\/dh1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>We\u00a0have another new area coming to MTBO this year, Swynnerton and Hanchurch Woods, near Stone in Staffordshire. A Potteries Orienteering Club Area, they have all but given up on it for foot orienteering, the brambles and undergrowth completely overwhelming the map, but for MTBO it&#8217;s\u00a0perfect for a middle race.<\/p>\n<p>I have spent a few Saturday mornings out both on bike and foot working on the map which is very out of date, with huge tracks now gone\u00a0beneath brambles,\u00a0and lots of new MTB tracks appearing all the time. I spent today\u00a0surveying the trail-fairy made downhill areas. It&#8217;s got my mind working on how to map some of it. Great sweeping single-tracks but with, eerrrrrmmm, well just say the odd obstacle, built by, eerrrmmmm, nutters!<\/p>\n<p>At present I think I will probably map them with a pink bar\u00a0across the track but I think a few of them need an exclamation mark or two as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u00a0have another new area coming to MTBO this year, Swynnerton and Hanchurch Woods, near Stone in Staffordshire. A Potteries Orienteering Club Area, they have all but given up on it for foot orienteering, the brambles and undergrowth completely overwhelming the map, but for MTBO it&#8217;s\u00a0perfect for a middle race. I have spent a few Saturday &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/?p=2341\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MTBO Mapping, Hanchurch Woods&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cycling","category-mountain-biking-cycling","category-orienteering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2341"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2347,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions\/2347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stodgell.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}