Airienteers
Orienteering in Airedale & Wharfedale
Harden Moor
YHOA Middle
Distance Championships
and Superleague Level C Event
Sunday 8 May
2016
FINAL DETAILS
Parking and assembly
Signed from B6429 in Harden onto Ryecroft
Road.
Assembly
is near The Guide Inn at SE067385 . BD21 5QP (The Guide Inn).
Parking will be as follows – please follow directions of the marshals
a) In the assembly
area.
b) Along a bridleway
close to the Guide Inn. There will be a
taped route from the bridleway to Assembly which avoids the road.
c) Alongside the
road near to Assembly.
d)
If numbers are greater than at previous events, alongside another road
on the opposite side of the Guide Inn crossroads, which could be up to 600m from
Assembly. To get to assembly from this area you will need to cross a road which
can be busy and fast-moving.
Please take care on all roadside parking and when crossing roads.
The area available for parking is limited – please
share transport wherever possible.
Please do not park in
The Guide Inn car park – however they will welcome you,
muddy boots and all if you want to call in for refreshments afterwards.
Any Minibuses or Campervans will
have to park alongside the road.
In the
area close to the entrances that dog walkers use to access the moor there is a
significant amount of dog mess – please be vigilant about where you are walking
(particularly those of you with children) and check your shoes before you get
into your car.
Facilities
Portable toilets in the assembly field.
A cakes and hot and
cold drinks will be sold to raise funds for Harden Primary School Parents
Association - bring your pennies for a good cause
Fees
Seniors £9.00 (£7 for BOF members); Juniors & Students £3.00;
Juniors free on White and Yellow courses
SI card hire 50p
Entries
On the day only from
09:45 – 12:00
Starts
10:30 – 12:30
Courses close at 2:30.
Terrain
Heather moorland, with complex quarry workings, and a steep sided wooded
valley.
There are some large
dangerous crags, one of which will be taped, and which courses are planned to
avoid.
Some parts of the area
are used extensively by the public (especially dog-walkers). Please be
courteous and considerate (and take care where dogs are concerned).
There is also a small
area used by a model aircraft flying club, which is marked as Out of Bounds on
the map and which courses have been planned to avoid – please observe.
All other out of bound areas are bounded by walls or fences and there is
no need to cross any walls or fences.
All open fields are out of bounds.
Start & Finish
The
Start is about 200m from Registration.
The route to the start is along a footpath.
Finish
will be 150m from Assembly.
Courses
Courses
have been planned to Middle Distance standards and are shown in the table below,
together with an indication of the recommended age-classes for Middle
Distance
events. All course lengths are subject
to final controlling. No course crosses
a road
|
Course |
Distance |
Climb |
Controls |
Mens Classes |
Womens Classes |
|
White |
1.3k |
15m |
13 |
|
|
|
Yellow |
1.8k |
20m |
11 |
M10 |
W10 |
|
Orange |
1.9k |
45m |
12 |
M12 |
W12 |
|
Light Green |
2.9k |
90m |
16 |
M14 |
W14 |
|
Short Green |
2.6k |
70m |
16 |
M75+ |
W55/60, W65/70, W75+ |
|
Green |
3.2k |
95m |
19 |
M65/70,
M75+ |
W16,
W45/50 |
|
Blue |
4.2k |
155m |
23 |
M16,
M45/50, M55/60 |
W20-,
W21, W35/40 |
|
Brown |
4.7k |
170m |
23 |
M20-,
M35/40 |
|
|
Black |
5.7k |
220m |
31 |
M21 |
|
There
will be a string course
Middle Distance Championship Prize-giving
Prizes will be awarded to the 1st YHOA runner in each age
class. The prize giving will take place
as soon as results permit.
Yorkshire Orienteering Superleague
(YOS)
This is Event 4 in the
Yorkshire Orienteering Superleague. For further details of the Yorkshire
Orienteering Superleague and the YOS age-classes and
scoring system, see
http://www.yhoa.org.uk/yorkshire-superleague/
YOS
courses which are not available at this event will be combined as follows – Short
Brown -> Brown, Short Blue -> Blue, Short Green -> Green,
Very Short
Green -> Light Green
Map
1:7500 for
all courses, printed on waterproof paper.
The black
circle symbol on the map indicates a stone circle
Dogs
Dogs
welcome on lead, or at heel and under control
Officials
Organiser:
Liz Davies (07875 359100) liz.davies@blueyonder.co.uk
Planner:
Tony Carlyle
Controller:
Richard Foster
A full risk assessment has been
undertaken, but competitors take part at their own risk
Further information and any final changes at
www.aire.org.uk