Saturday, February 9, 2008

HK orienteering in 1988



This is another 20-years-old video, taken in the same race as another video in the previous post. While I was typing that post, I thought all the Westerns were orientters living in Hong Kong. But I was wrong. In the forum where I found the video, someone pointed out that 2 days right after the race was the first round of the World Cup 1988. That's why we can see so many golden hair in the video. For the number of Western orienteers in Hong Kong, it truly decreased because of 1997. The difference is that it did not decreased from a large number to a tiny number. Is from a small number to a tiny number.
Back to the vidoe. This time the camera man walked to the start area and captured the people running on the hills, not forest. Forest in white colour on a gentle landscape is a luxury for Hong Kong orienteers. Most of the maps we run are in green and yellow. See below:



3 comments:

Duhek said...

Can u write name of seccond map in english?
Thx

chiuihc said...

OK.
The name is "Shek Lung Kung".
It translates the Chinese pronunciation directly.
Here are the meanings of those three words:
Shek - Rock/Rocky
Lung - Dragon
Kung - Arch

Duhek said...

Thank you...
I collect map links all around the world in http://kart-o-teka.blogspot.com/

Greetings from Croatia