Updates:
31/08/2023 – Final details
Four headline final details:
– There will be a charge of £2 per car for car parking. Please have cash ready to pay as you approach the parking area.
– Registration: you will need to report to registration before your run, and collect your map from registration. Maps will be folded, open your map as you start.
– One particular marsh on the area is very wet at the moment, making it difficult to cross over most of its length. Courses are planned such that no-one should feel tempted to cross this marsh, and this marsh is marked as out of bounds on the competition maps.
– Green and Blue courses pass beyond a fence that runs across the area. The fence is marked as “forbidden to cross” on the competition maps, and it should only be crossed at marked crossing points.
Terrain: Open fell with contour detail. Moderately good underfoot with a mixture of rough grass, heather, bracken and significant marshland. The bracken is approximately mapped with a green vertical line screen. There are no steep or rocky slopes on the shorter courses
Map: 1:10000 (for Blue, Green courses) or 1:7500 (for Short Green, Very Short Green and Yellow courses). Please note rough open land on the map is shown in white rather than the IOF standard pale yellow. Almost the whole map is mapped as rough open land (white).
Parking: on fell adjacent to road
Grid Ref: NY527157 (streetmap.co.uk)
What3Words:behind.candy.giants
Approach from Bampton Grange CA10 2QR. Roads are narrow. Parking is on the fell next to the road. £2 per car – please have cash ready on arrival.
Entries: Pre-entry only (now closed) except for the Yellow (Novice) course where there will be some entry on the day, subject to map availability. Seniors £6 Juniors £2. Anyone who has requested a hire SI card or entered without an SI card will be able to collect this from registration. No charge unless you lose it.
Safety: Whistles compulsory, cagouls may be declared compulsory on the day. You must download even if you don’t finish the course so we know that you are safe.
Courses:
> Blue 6.3km, 260m
> Green 5.0km, 190m
> Short Green 3.8km, 165m
> Very Short Green 2.1km, 90m *
> Yellow (Novice) 2.6km, 120m
*Very Short Green – this course uses the same map as the Short Green course but with some controls missed out. If you want to do Very Short Green, enter Short Green and pick up a Short Green map from registration. The map will show which controls to miss. You can decide while on the course whether or not to take the Very Short Green cut-off. The download system will work out which course you have completed.
All controls are SIAC enabled, but competitors will need to punch the start and finish. Descriptions on the map (no loose descriptions).
Starts: 11.00 – 12.30. Start and finish are approx. 300m from the car park, on a track with fairly minimal climb. The start will not be manned. Please allow ca 1 min between competitors on the same course.
Courses close: 14:00 – all competitors must be finished by this time.
Toilets: Portaloo in the car park.
| This is another Picnic Event in the popular BL Pop-up Picnic Event series. Bring your own packed lunch and flask, your own seat to sit upon, picnic table if liked, and sun-hat as required, totally DIY; and come and join your fellow members and competitors at BL’s Club Picnic after your run at Swindale. We provide the area. You provide the rest. ALL competitors and friends are welcome – not just BLs. There will be a signed area taped off near Download where we can all congregate and chat. New members – come and introduce yourselves. Old Members come and catch up on your news, successes, far-flung Events and all things Orienteering. |
First Aid: Available at registration/download.
Planner/Organiser: Ian Cumpstey binsey2008(at)gmail(dot)com
Border Liners Orienteering Club 