Blackwater - Level D - Saturday Local
Saturday 25th January
Wessex Orienteering Club Local Forest event
This is a limited entry (50 total) over 3 courses Light Green, Blue or Score; based at Anderwood car park and using the Blackwater stream map of runnable deciduous woodand South of Lyndhurst Rd.
Contact: julie.astin14@gmail.com
Blue 7.6km 55m climb
Light Green 4.2km 30m climb
Technical difficulty = 4 whereby a course is based on the skills needed to successfully complete it.
• Navigate long legs on a rough compass bearing to a collecting feature.
• Fine orienteering on short legs using an accurate compass bearing.
• Navigate for short distances using simple contour features – hills, ridges, large reentrants and spurs.
Score 9.0km 65m climb
60 minutes to visit as many controls as you can. You lose 10 points per full and/or part minute over the hour. You gain 5 points per minute and/or part minute under 60 minutes BUT only if you have visited all the controls on your map.
Senior Novice: £6.00
Senior Chip hire: £1.00
Junior: £4.00/£4.00
Junior Chip hire: £0.00
Juniors are under 21 on 31st December. Entry Fees - £8 senior (£10 non BOF ) £4 Junior
Enter online at racesignup.co.uk
Venue
Anderwood Car Park, Burley, BH24 4HS w3w: standing.hound.neatly or by Google Maps
Terrain
The courses take part in the mainly deciduous woodland of Burley New, Dames Slough and Burley Old Inclosures, through which runs the Blackwater stream flanked by some areas of rough open land.
The event takes place with permission from Forestry England
Maps
Overprinted with courses at 1:10,000
There are a number of uncrossable mires which are OOB and marked by being surrounded by a red line. They are OOB for nature conservation reasons and are physically not passable anyway . Anyone seen crossing one of these mires may be DSQ. There are also other areas of the heath, including the quarry marked OOB by red hashing, so please do not enter these areas.
Root stocks Only the more significant ones (>1.5m) have been mapped and are represented as green crosses.
Hides are mapped with a black cross.
Timing
Sport Ident using SIAC enabled controls. All competitors must physically dib at both the start and finish
Registration open from 10:30 for hire card collection (SI Card5 only) and any last minute changes to entry details.
Start Times
Starts from 11:00 to 12 noon. There are no allocated start times so just go to the start when you are ready. The Start is about 100m from registration
Facilities
There will be no toilet facilities at the event . The nearest public loos are at Burley in the car park behind the Queens Head, which along with thw White Buck are proabably the nearest pubs.
Event Officials
Planner: Oliver Heckford
Organiser: Julie Astin