New safety rules

[noel]

Next come out with the cliche foreigners can't descend...

Let's not forget they lack grit, are work-shy and try to straighten our bananas.

[fozzy]

I like the idea of everyone having SI dibbers...you buy it once and that's it. no need for numbers, vests or no vests. it's your responsibility to take it, no dibber, no race. ROs could decide whether or not to hire them out. maybe if more people used them they'd come down in price a little.

This has been the approach for orienteering clubs for a while now. Most own their own dibbers. I have my own.

Most O-clubs also have a number of dibbers they hire out at events for an extra £1-2.

Except for when you go down sarf and have to use EMIT, which I reliably told is a pain in the arse. Most orienteers I know prefer SI.

[fozzy]

Morgan.. it depends on the country but kit requirements are far less.. generally..

Is this not a factor because UK weather is inherently less predictable than that on the continent though? If weather is set fair is it not likely to stay that way and if the weather is bad they cancel the race or move to bad weather alternatives? Unlike the UK, where it can be very changeable in the uplands in a very short space of time.

I ask because I do not know the answer to this and it's an interesting point. I find it surprising that European mountain races don't have to stipulate similar kit requirements...

[IainR]

Not really.. hence all the deaths at the Zugspitze recently.. when 5-6 runners were killed.

i find it surprising.

[bigfella]

Is this a reflection of the European legal system and their attitude to health and safety vs Britains nanny state where we try to legislate away hazards of any description.

[LissaJous]

Not really.. hence all the deaths at the Zugspitze recently.. when 5-6 runners were killed.

2 not 5-6. They weren't lost meaning off-path, but hard to find in the snow.
2008 http://www.thelocal.de/sport/20080714-13051.html

[IainR]

In Spain that seemed to be the system, but again we needed MC's..

But it was just run.. I was amazed a run up a 10,000ft mountain.. from barely 2000ft.. no equipment required..

[IainR]

2 not 5-6. They weren't lost meaning off-path, but hard to find in the snow.
2008 http://www.thelocal.de/sport/20080714-13051.html

I thought it was less.. a Bavarian told me it was 5-6 this weekend..

[Khamsin]

I thought it was less.. a Bavarian told me it was 5-6 this weekend..

And the 2 deaths were 5 years ago.

Do you really hold a PhD based on factual research?

[IainR]

Deedums... 5 years is pretty recent....

Aye I do.... science is about the ability to bullshit and lie....