BL High Brow and Watermillock Common Long-O (and not so Long-O)

Sunday 31st August 2025

FINAL DETAILS

Entries and Course Changes
There is no entry on the day. Limited late entry is available by contacting the organisers in advance (BLdanandkaren@gmail.com ). Also contact the organisers if you want to change course. Course changes on the day will be very limited.
The entry list is available here

Travel and Parking
The car park and event centre are in a field at High Row, 1.5km west of Dockray. There will be no road signs, except at the field entrance. There will also be a BL feather flag at the entrance.
Car parking fee is £2 per vehicle.
Dogs are permitted in the car park field, but must be kept on leads and please clean up any dog poo. Dogs are not permitted on courses.

Toilets
There will be a portaloo in the car parking field.

Terrain and Map
Open fell with variable runability and some marshy sections that can be hard going particularly after wet weather. It is mostly grassy but with patches of heather and tussocks. There are sections of rock and contour detail. An old map of the area can be seen here.
Open fell is shown on the map as white, rather than the standard yellow. There are some vague paths formed by quad bikes and animals. In general, they are not mapped. Some mapped paths can be hard to spot when crossed.
The map shows a lot of embankments (mostly peat hags) – these are less obvious than they used to be.
Note the following symbols:

Registration and Map Collection
When you are ready to start, go to registration (near the car park entrance) to collect your map. If you need to hire an SI card, collect this here too. If you have travelled alone you will be asked for your car registration for safety.

Start
The start is about 500m from the car park entrance, mostly along a flat track – follow tapes. The start will not be manned.
Start times are 10:00 to 12:00. Start time slots have not been allocated so start whenever you want, but make sure it’s early enough to get back before courses close at 15:30. Those on the Long and Medium are strongly advised to start before 11:00.
If you are running as a pair, make sure both of you dib the start.

Finish and Download
The finish is about 100m from the car park field. Download is in the same place as Registration. If you want to appear in the results as a pair, let us know when you download.

Course Details

	Length (km)	Climb (m)	Map Scale
Long	17.3	750	1:12500, 5m contours
Medium	12.6	430	1:12500, 5m contours
Short	7.0	220	1:10000, 5m contours
Very Short	5.1	190	1:10000, 5m contours
Super Short	3.2	150	1:7500, 5m contours

Controls are NOT SIAC enabled (for safety reasons)
Courses close at 15:30.

Control Descriptions
Descriptions are on the map. Loose descriptions will NOT be available. All courses have both text and pictorial descriptions. On the Short course the text descriptions are on the back of the map.

Clothing and Safety
Shorts are permitted
Long, Medium: Cagoules and whistles are compulsory. If the weather is bad, waterproof trousers plus hat and gloves will also be compulsory – make sure you bring them just in case.
Short, Very Short, Super Short: Cagoules will be compulsory only in bad weather.
(A notice at registration will let you know if the weather is “officially” bad.)
Sheep and deer roam the area so please check for ticks after running.
If it’s hot you should consider carrying water. Long and Medium courses cross streams that are probably drinkable (but the organisers take no responsibility for this!)
There is a phone signal on most of the area and the organisers’ phone number is printed on the map.

Refreshments
Free tea/coffee and cake (including gluten-free) will be available after your run. Please bring a mug if possible.

Results and Route Gadget
These will be on the BL website (https://borderlinersorienteering.org ) very soon after the event

Queries
Contact planners/organisers Karen and Dan Parker (BLdanandkaren@gmail.com) or via the Border Liners website

Thank you to
WCOC for allowing us to use High Brow
Jean Wilson for use of the parking field
National Trust and Watermillock/Matterdale Commoners for permission to use their land