Quote Originally Posted by Brotherton Lad View Post
Interesting point about orienteering.

Often, I find no need to navigate in a fell race, I just follow the crowd. Sometimes the map stays in the bum bag all the way round.

In orienteering, however, it's a full time business staying on top of the nav. In the inevitable post mortem, I'll always find a string of errors where I've lost time. This means I've had very few orienteering experiences that I could describe as entirely happy and satisfactory. Fell running, though, tends to be more enjoyable.

) so you enjoy it more when you don't know where you are.