Winter Series 1998-1999
Round 5 - 14th March 1999

Description: This was Chris Heys's first DF operating the transmitter. He thought he'd made it a difficult DF, hoping the competitors would be tempted into either Moses Gate country park to the east or Burnden Weir to the west. As it was everyone came in the easy way and only had to walk 2 minutes round the lake. Chris also tried to fool everyone by putting up loads of dummy aerial wire, but this backfired when Chris Plummer appeared earlier than expected and caught him in the act! Some of the dummy wire cost Dave Peacock half an hour. Dave first appeared on site only a couple of minutes after John Heath had been and gone. He was within inches of Chris, hidden on the water's edge, but when he spotted some wire tied off on an adjacent fence, the rest of which Chris had thrown into some bushes on the opposite side of the river, he decided to get back to the car and explore the other side, which was in fact inaccessible.