Final Details
28th May: Preliminary Details published
2nd June: Added information about coffee/food van, minor changes to course length/climb
5th June: Final Details published
With Fell Runners’ course! The RED COURSE is designed for FELL RUNNERS, new to orienteering who want to tighten up their nav. It’s long but not so fiendishly difficult!
Parking at Snittlegarth
Postcode CA7 1HE
Grid Ref NY 219 382
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Terrain: Steep open fell with rock detail, some marshy sections, although at time of writing, it has been a very dry Spring. Courses finish in runnable grazed farmland.
Car Parking: At Snittlegarth. Please follow parking marshal’s instructions. Parking £2. If you are coming in a minibus/campervan please contact the organiser in advance (email address below).
Directions: Please approach from the A591 between Bothel and The Castle Inn hotel, take the minor road signposted Whitrigg, Torpenhow and Ireby at GR NY 2041 3636. At Whitrigg continue straight ahead, Snittlegarth is approx. 2km on the right.
Toilets: At assembly.
Starts: 10:30 – 12:30
Walk to the start from assembly is 1.8km with around 130m climb. If you want to, you can go directly to the start without going into the farmyard where assembly, toilets and download are located, please follow signs from the farmyard entrance.
Results will be displayed at download.
Finish: Courses close at 14:30. Please ensure you download, which is 1.3km and generally downhill from the finish. Please follow tapes and close all gates.
Pre-entry: now closed. Entry List
Entry on the day: for the White, Yellow, Orange and Red courses only subject to map availability (Senior £10, Junior £4, extra maps £1.00) White maps to be collected from registration. Yellow maps to be collected from the start. Copies of Yellow maps will be available at registration should anyone wish to have a look at the course in advance.
Maps: 1:10000 for Brown, Blue and Red. 1:7500 for all other courses. The map from a previous event can be seen here
- All courses start and finish in open grassland
- Rough open is shown as white. Walled fields are shown on the map as fast open in yellow/orange.
- Green circles (ISOM bushes or trees) are mainly small trees on Binsey Fell and mainly gorse bushes on the grazed fields.
- There is no bracken screen on the map and although some bracken is present, courses are designed to avoid these areas.
- There are numerous contouring sheep trods on the south face of Binsey. These were looking more obvious in the dry spell, but are greening-up again now, so they have not been mapped.
- There are unmapped scattered young spruce trees on the northern slopes. Only the larger, distinctive trees are mapped.
- Boulder sizes vary. Descriptions give boulder heights.
- There are two non-standard symbols on the map:
HEATHER BEETLE:
The heather beetle has decimated the heather on the north-facing slopes of Binsey so that it is now more runnable grassland. Combined with the recent dry weather, the peat is contracting. This has resulted in many more boulders appearing as the peat contracts around them. It can be quite rocky underfoot. Please ensure that you clean your shoes thoroughly when you leave Binsey.
Control Descriptions: Loose in start lanes and on the maps.
White and Yellow courses have text descriptions. Orange has both text and pictorial descriptions. All other courses have only pictorial descriptions.
A black cross in the pictorial descriptions is a post
Timing: Sportident – Controls will be SIAC Enabled. You will need to punch the Start and Finish.
Dibber Hire: Free but £30 payable if lost. To pre-order, leave the SI number blank during entry process and collect from Download on the day. Also available for entry-on-the day.
Catering: The “L’al Yan Coffee” van will be present serving hot drinks, cakes and food. There will be some seating for customers and even if you don’t want to buy anything why not bring along your own chair and eat your lunch there. It will be a good opportunity to meet and chat to fellow competitors.
SAFETY
- Clothing: Shorts are allowed, but competitors should be tick-aware and thoroughly check after the event.
- Weather: Please take appropriate precautions, hydration, sunscreen and head cover. If you want to take water to the start a bin liner will be provided at the start for the disposal of plastic bottles. Water for emergency use will be available at the finish. The area is exposed and if cagoules are compulsory, competitors will be advised in the final details and/or by signage in the field.
- Whistles are compulsory.
- There are grazing sheep in the area. Please do not run directly at hefted sheep.
- There are cliffs and crags on the area, the rock can be very slippery when wet. The very dry grass is surprisingly slippery.
- Safety bearing for all courses that go onto the fell is NORTH to the fell wall gate.
- White, Yellow and Orange courses do not go out onto the fell. If these competitors accidently go through a gate onto the fell, they will see a sad face sign telling them to go back into the field.
- Route to assembly and start: Snittlegarth is a working farm and there is some holiday accommodation on site. Please be aware of moving vehicles, in particular on the access drive and the route to the start.
- Other members of the public and the farmers may be in the competition area. Please be mindful and cheery as we are grateful to them for allowing us to use their land and the Commons.
- Route to the start and from the finish: please close gates after you.
- Competitors with an existing medical condition are invited to leave details in a sealed envelope at Download (and collect it after finishing)
- The nearest defibrillator is located at Ireby, Globe Hall on the front of the building approx. 1.5 miles away. W3W farmer.boomer.reset
Dogs – please read carefully: Dogs on leads in Car Parking area only and close to your own car as there are sheep on the parkland drive – no dogs on the course or on route up to start as there are sheep and cattle on the land. If you’d like to take your dog for a walk, please use the public road. There is no access from Snittlegarth to the fell for dogs.
The following courses are available and who they might suit:
| Course | Technical difficulty | Course length | Climb | Who this course would suit? |
| White | TD1 | 1.4km | 30m | Novice juniors and family groups |
| Yellow | TD2 | 1.8km | 60m | Developing novice juniors and family groups |
| Orange | TD3 | 2.3km | 65m | Novice adults or experienced youngsters |
| Red | TD3 | 6.6km | 265m | Adult fell runners |
| Light Green | TD4 | 3.3km | 145m | Adult improvers |
| Very Short Green *** | TD5 | 2.8km | 95m | Adults wanting a shorter but challenging course with a hard navigational difficulty but a lower physical difficulty. |
| Short Green | TD5 | 3.4km | 120m | Adults wanting a shorter but challenging course with a hard navigational difficulty. |
| Green | TD5 | 4.5km | 195m | Experienced under 18s and adults wanting a short but challenging course with hard navigational difficulty. |
| Blue | TD5 | 6.4km | 230m | Experienced orienteers |
| Brown | TD5 | 8.6km | 340m | Experienced orienteers |
*** NB VERY SHORT GREEN – this is NOT the same course as the Short Green – it is a stand-alone course with the aim of reducing the physical difficulty of the course of the short green. If you want to do Very Short Green, you must enter very short green and pick up a very short green map at the start.
COURSES CLOSE AT 2.30PM. PLEASE REPORT TO DOWNLOAD AT ASSEMBLY EVEN IF YOU DO NOT COMPLETE YOUR COURSE
Nearest A & E
Cumberland Infirmary
Newtown Road
Carlisle
CA2 7HY
NY 387561 What3Words : ///cool.pines.tribune
Mary Hewetson Cottage Hospital, Crosthwaite Road, Keswick – Minor Injuries Walk in
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Postcode: CA12 5PH
Officials:
Organiser – John Ferris-Worth (BL)
https://borderlinersorienteering.org/club-info/contact/
Planner – Julie Ferris-Worth (BL)
Controller – Roger Thomas (WCOC)
Border Liners Orienteering Club 