Swinley East Regional

2024-10-26

This event has been and gone!

Berkshire Orienteers (BKO) invites you to a regional orienteering event at Swinley East on Saturday the 26th October 2024.
This is a SCOA League Event (SCOL). It is the day before the Oxford City Race, so why not make it into an orienteering weekend?

Swinley East forest is flat with mixed tree type, runnable expanses and some areas of finer contour detail. Parking will be on the area (800m from the entrance gate along a hard track) situated between the start (less than 100m) and finish. Toilets and first aid team at assembly.

There is forestry work in the area. Please keep strictly out of the out of bounds areas marked (new tree planting etc).

Due to recent forestry work there are unmapped vehicle tracks / changes to vegetation / new ditches in places.

Bracken is dying back, but still high in some places.

Contact: events@bko.org.uk

See BKO website for final details

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Courses

Starts in 15-minute blocks between 10:30 and 12:30. If you miss your block do not worry, we will fit you in. It is a punching start and finish. The other controls on the course are contactless SIAC enabled. Courses close at 14:30. You must report to the download tent even if you do not finish your course.

Course lengths are now final.
Maps are with the printers, so each course entry now limited by map numbers.
Map scale 1:10000
Map size A4

Brown 9.8km 85m climb

Blue 7.1km 70m climb

Green 4.9km 50m climb

Short Green 3.5km 40m climb

Light Green 4.1km 50m climb

Orange 3.5km 35m climb

Yellow 2.1km 20m climb

White 1.4km 15m climb

Entry Fees

From 2nd October:
    Early
        Senior: £12.00
        Senior Novice: £6.00
        Non member additional charge: £2.00
        Senior Chip hire: £2.00
        Junior/Student: £6.00
        Junior/Student Chip hire: £0.00
From 21st October:
    Late
        Senior: £14.00
        Senior Novice: £6.00
        Non member additional charge: £2.00
        Senior Chip hire: £2.00
        Junior/Student: £6.00
        Junior/Student Chip hire: £0.00

Juniors are under 21 on 31st December.

Students (with student ID, 21+) pay junior fee.

If you want to go round one course together as a family, then you only need to enter one person on the course (enter a junior for lower fee).

Timing using SI with SIAC enabled controls. SIAC hire available. Please look after our new SIAC dibbers. We will charge you £72 for a replacement if you lose it.

Event Information

The terrain is mostly flat with some areas of contour details.
It is a mixture of coniferous and deciduous forest which has been subject to some felling and replanting over recent years.
The summer bracken is still significant in many areas.

The Oxford City Race run by OUOC is on Sunday 27th October - Why not make a weekend of it?
Oxford City Race