Houx Camping Map

Houx Camping Map

Author
Discussion

chasingracecars

1,696 posts

96 months

Wednesday 30th May 2018
quotequote all
I am fully expecting to be empty handed but I am not coming back! bounce . Stopping off in France for a week then race.

I have heard that Houx is open for test but we have to be offsite by 9am on Monday! Yes 9am. I am guessing that they are marking the pitches up after test and wasting time re-numbering it differently from last year. I am on Non Numbered and have 4 tickets that we want together, from memory there are not many of these grouped together.

I will refer to the 2013 map and see if I can make any similarities.

C70R

17,596 posts

103 months

Wednesday 30th May 2018
quotequote all
chasingracecars said:
I am fully expecting to be empty handed but I am not coming back! bounce . Stopping off in France for a week then race.

I have heard that Houx is open for test but we have to be offsite by 9am on Monday! Yes 9am. I am guessing that they are marking the pitches up after test and wasting time re-numbering it differently from last year. I am on Non Numbered and have 4 tickets that we want together, from memory there are not many of these grouped together.

I will refer to the 2013 map and see if I can make any similarities.
Good luck. We always pay the premium for numbered pitches, because it reduces the stress and lets us have a leisurely dawdle down.

chasingracecars

1,696 posts

96 months

Wednesday 30th May 2018
quotequote all
I am usually one of the first 5 vehicles through the gate if not onsite before it opens!!

anonymous-user

53 months

Wednesday 30th May 2018
quotequote all
May I just say that the big brown area is the old karting track where I nearly saw the end of my days in 2003 careering round in the old cortina, followed by a day at Le Mans Hospital.


VladD

7,853 posts

264 months

Wednesday 30th May 2018
quotequote all
V6Pushfit said:
May I just say that the big brown area is the old karting track where I nearly saw the end of my days in 2003 careering round in the old cortina, followed by a day at Le Mans Hospital.

This story needs expanding on.....

anonymous-user

53 months

Wednesday 30th May 2018
quotequote all
VladD said:
This story needs expanding on.....
I’m in the Cortina on the right and this is the old track, but unfortunately the next lap I rolled it


Some Gump

12,671 posts

185 months

Wednesday 30th May 2018
quotequote all
Haha! Can't believe my 2015 partial map is still the best online.



There you go lads. Photographic evidence of "scavenged from a bin" for the greater good of the collective.






Of course in hindsight we should have lifted it and scanned when home, but lets be honest: Who is thinking straight at 8 AM the Monday after the race?

chasingracecars

1,696 posts

96 months

Thursday 31st May 2018
quotequote all
Wow that’s good!! Now to try and read the numbering.

I think the easiest way is to recreate it to follow the numbers.

VladD

7,853 posts

264 months

Thursday 31st May 2018
quotequote all
V6Pushfit said:
I’m in the Cortina on the right and this is the old track, but unfortunately the next lap I rolled it

At least now you can fake a limp and tell people that it's an old injury recurring from a crash when you raced at Le Mans.

vincegail

2,456 posts

154 months

Thursday 31st May 2018
quotequote all
Some Gump said:
Haha! Can't believe my 2015 partial map is still the best online.



There you go lads. Photographic evidence of "scavenged from a bin" for the greater good of the collective.

Of course in hindsight we should have lifted it and scanned when home, but lets be honest: Who is thinking straight at 8 AM the Monday after the race?
Thx! Downloaded, and maybe when I have nothing to do in the dark and cold months, I'll make an effort and turn it in a map in readable scale. But for the moment, this is indeed the best there is.

Drax

11 posts

70 months

Monday 4th June 2018
quotequote all
Do you have the map of Houx Annexe? What's the blocks opposite the Sanitaires? (Shoulda gone 2 years ago, but this is 1st time going). What would cause the spots that are crossed out?

Rick101

6,959 posts

149 months

Monday 4th June 2018
quotequote all
Some Gump said:
Haha! Can't believe my 2015 partial map is still the best online.
Excellent work!

Had meant to take photos and make some sort of a map in 2017 but of course as soon as I arrived and had a beer that plan went out the window.

Drax

11 posts

70 months

Monday 4th June 2018
quotequote all
The maps are also available on Beermountain, http://www.beermountain.com/p/map-room_28.html

Some Gump

12,671 posts

185 months

Monday 4th June 2018
quotequote all


Just for Ollie.

Thing I can't work out - the pics I have and the pics you lot can click on are the same thing. I know the numbers are a bit blurry, but surely with a little bit of effort you can read 4-5 of the pitch numbers and work out what is going on? They are in order after all!

ollie2017uk

Original Poster:

78 posts

85 months

Monday 4th June 2018
quotequote all
Some Gump said:


Just for Ollie.

Thing I can't work out - the pics I have and the pics you lot can click on are the same thing. I know the numbers are a bit blurry, but surely with a little bit of effort you can read 4-5 of the pitch numbers and work out what is going on? They are in order after all!
Top man, I appreciate that, I had worked out where 34 was I couldn’t tell where 14 was in range 34, it looks like it’s up against the fence on the roadside.

Thank you anyway like I said very much appreciated

Rick101

6,959 posts

149 months

Monday 4th June 2018
quotequote all
I'm trying to copy all that data to an excel spreadsheet. I've done the South half of the camp as best I can.

Is there a way to upload it to PH?

Some Gump

12,671 posts

185 months

Monday 4th June 2018
quotequote all

Some Gump

12,671 posts

185 months

Monday 4th June 2018
quotequote all
ollie2017uk said:
Top man, I appreciate that, I had worked out where 34 was I couldn’t tell where 14 was in range 34, it looks like it’s up against the fence on the roadside.

Thank you anyway like I said very much appreciated
no worries!
just done the other map, looks like it shows much better on my kindle than on the PC. strange!

Anyways, the general gist of the numbering is it goes in a u shape:

1 20
2 19
3 18
4 17
5 16
6 15
7 14
8 13
9 12
10 11

Where it falls down is when theres an X'd pitch for a tree or uneven ground. I _think_ the numbers stay the same but the ticket isn't sold, but that's more memory of the old map than the semi unreadable map I photographed!

Rick101

6,959 posts

149 months

Monday 4th June 2018
quotequote all
Got most of that but looking at the scan it seems they often miss numbers for whatever reason.

Sometimes the numbers continue on counting the missed pitch, sometimes not.

This is where I'm up to




Thanks for the Rang numbers SG smile

Edited by Rick101 on Monday 4th June 20:12

Some Gump

12,671 posts

185 months

Monday 4th June 2018
quotequote all
Rick101 said:
Got most of that but looking at the scan it seems they often miss numbers for whatever reason.
I,'m going with "because they're French"!

It',s a bit like the alcohol rule being different every hour of the day. If they start doling out consistency, people will expect it left right and centre. Will there be big roll? Hot water? aftermath from the next batch of merguez? It's better for all involved for them to keep us on our toes smile