Blackwater - Level D - Saturday Local
2025-01-25
Wessex Orienteering Club Local Forest event
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
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
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.
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.
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
The Forestry England toilets should be open. Otherwise, the nearest public loos are at Burley in the car park behind the Queens Head, which along with the White Buck are probably the nearest pubs.
Dogs are allowed if kept on a lead. Any mess created by your dog must be picked up and removed from the site.
In the unlikely event of cancellation a message will be placed on the Wessex Orienteering Club’s web site and an email sent via Race Signup to all entrants,
If there is a cancellation Wessex Orienteering Club reserves the right to retain a fraction of the entry fees to cover expenses already committed
Competitor self-help withdrawals can be made at any time up to t0:00 p.m. on the night before the event. We know that you'd rather be running but injury, illness or other life crises disrupt our plans. Withdrawal through Racesignup (manage entry) will automatically result in a credit for the full entry fee which can be redeemed at a future WSX event. It will also result in a place being free up for another potential competitor.
Planner: Oliver Heckford
Organiser: Julie Astin
