"This past weekend saw a good turnout of club members participating at
the Doorpoort colour-coded event. This new area, just north of Pretoria, proved to be an extremely challenging yet enjoyable venue for
orienteering. A mixture of grassland, savannah and thorny woodland with
scattered rocky outcrops and extensive kraal ruins gave all orienteers some good technical challenges.
This combination of Limpopo Bushveld-type terrain is unique in South African orienteering and would
have been well suited for a South African Championships type event.
Commendations go to the Van Hoepen family (Willem, Nico and Salome) who were all involved in the mapping, planning and organising. The map
proved to be of very high quality, especially considering the low visibility in some areas of the terrain. Many, many hours of labour
obviously went into making sure everything was right on the day.
The mapping is all the more impressive when considering that this is their
first mapping attempt! Well done to all those who finished their
courses... the sudden increase in technicality on the day was visible by some long times on the courses, even for some members of the national
team! Some orienteers seem to have made horrendous navigation errors due to the low visibility in the white and light green woodland."
N. Mulder