Bolderwood & Mark Ash Wood Local
Saturday 6th December
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Wessex Orienteering Club Local Forest event
This is a limited entry (150 total) over 3 courses Short Green, Blue or Score; based at Bolderwood car park and using the Bolderwood map of runnable deciduous woodand either side of the ornamental drive.
Contact: nicolabrooke1966@gmail.com
Blue 6.3km 105m climb
14 Controls. Technical Dificulty 5
* Controls on any features particularly those demanding careful map reading to locate
* Controls far from obvious attack points or catching features, so that errors are expensive; but with the map permitting accurate navigation into the control
* Course as a whole contains legs demanding a range of different techniques.
Short Green 3.2km 70m climb
10 Controls Technical difficulty = 5
Less physically challenging than Blue but still based on the skills needed to successfully complete it.
* Controls on any features particularly those demanding careful map reading to locate
* Controls far from obvious attack points or catching features, so that errors may be
expensive; but with the map permitting accurate navigation into the control
* Course as a whole contains legs demanding a range of different techniques.
Score
60 minutes to visit as many of 30 controls, worth between 10 & 50 ponts (total 600) 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. There will be some easier controls but also some overlap with the Blue and Short Green courses/ The technical difficulty depends on your direction of approach determined by the control sequence that you choose. Optimal route for all controls is about 10km with 150m climb.
Senior Chip hire: £1.00
Junior Entry is free
Junior Chip hire: £0.00
Juniors are under 21 on 31st December.
Venue
Bolderwood Car Park
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Parking
Bolderwood is a fairly busy car park in the New Forest, so please note that we have to limit our entry to 50 cars. Please try to share cars if possible.
Terrain
The courses take part in the mainly deciduous woodland either side of the Bolderwood Arboretum Ornamental Drive, which runs down a wooded ridge. Please take care if crossing the road.
The event takes place with permission from Forestry England
Maps
Mapped by SOC. Overprinted with courses at 1:10,000
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.
Entries
Entries are open until 23.59 on 5th December but only as long as maps are still available for that particular course
Withdrawals policy
For the organiser it's always appreciated if we can have a good idea of numbers likely to turn up (rather than have a surge of late entries). We appreciate you may want to be sure you're fit as you don't lose an entry fee through injury (or other life issues). Therefore for all WSX events, withdrawals will be available up to (at least) midnight of the day before the event via the Racesignup web page for this event. By default the full value of your entry will be credited to your racesignup account with Wessex-OC, to be redeemed on entry to any future WSX events. If you are unlikely to enter another WSX event, we can arrange a refund to your original payment card, less a small admin cost of 60p (currently), if you contact the organiser before the date of the event.
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.
Starts
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 300m from registration.
Finish
The finish will be about a 400m route back to registration and will be marked.
Courses close at 13:00 at which time we will start to collect in the controls. Therefore you should not expect to be able to complete your course after this time
All competitors must report to download even if you fail to complete your course. Failure to do so may result in a search being mounted for you
Facilities
The Forestry England toilets should be open.
Dogs
Dogs are allowed if kept on a lead. Any mess created by your dog must be picked up and removed from the site.
Cancellation
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 midnight of the day 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 freed up for another potential competitor.
Event Officials
Planner: Richie Hill
Organiser: Nicola Brooke