Malham Moor - Dales Weekend

Dave Brown passes on his gratitude and thanks for those who ignored his "I can manage" and helped him down from the moor. He is sorry to have spoiled their runs especially if they were doing well. Nothing broken and 6 weeks off running.

Safety Information

Whistles will be compulsory. The area is high and very open. Clothing will be dependent on conditions on the day and a waterproof may be required. This will be confirmed nearer the time.

If you have any medical condition that you think we should be aware of please write this information down and seal it in an envelope with your name on and hand it in at registration. It will only be opened in case of emergency and will be destroyed afterwards if you do not recover it from us.

For any one orienteering for the first time be aware that 'Course Close Time' means that you should be back at the assembly area and go to Download by that time in order for us to know that you have finished safely. Please do not forget to do that otherwise we will have to instigate a search which may involve us calling out Mountain Rescue needlessly.

Directions / Parking

Parking will be either side of the road approx. 1.5 miles north of Malham accessed via "Malham Raikes" going East then North from Malham (W3W is 'brave.contained.riverboat'). There will be a parking fee of £2 per car collected in cash on the day. All cars must arrive by 12:00 and no return down that road to Malham will be possible until 12:30. Roads are very narrow and Malham can be very busy on a fine September day.

UPDATE 10/09/24 - A relay race starts in Malham at 11:30. It uses the short stretch of road from the Lister Arms to the turn up Malham Raikes. Adults and children will be running both ways. Marshals will be supervising so please be patient if they ask you to wait for runners.

Registration & Start Times

Registration will open at 10:00 until 12:00

Start times are from 10.30 to 12.30. Courses close at 14.30. THERE WILL NOT BE TIMED STARTS.

Assembly will be close to parking. There will be two starts, both are about 600m from assembly with 30m climb and are within 200m of each other. Finish is about 150m from assembly. The West Start is for VSG upwards. The East Start is for W, Y, O and LG.

AIRE juniors are running a cake stall today - all contributions welcome and it will be CASH only

Entry Details

Pre-entry with limited Entry on the Day. You can enter both the Saturday and Sunday events on the link to Fabian 4

First closing date for entries will be midnight Sunday 8th Sept but entries will be kept open (at EOD prices) until Wednesday 11th September as long as maps are available. It is hoped that from Thursday 6th we can publish the numbers of maps for EOD.

Entry fees

Seniors Fees for Black to Light Green = £14, Orange, Yellow and White £7 (plus £2 supplement for senior Non-BOF members). Junior fees are £7 apart from Yellow & White which will be free.

Entries after 8th September are: Seniors Fees for Black to Light Green = £16, Orange and Yellow £8 (plus £2 supplement for senior Non-BOF members). Junior fees are £7 and free on Yellow & White. EOD will be cash only as there is no mobile signal

Si Card Hire: £1 apart from Yellow & White where they are free. Hired SI cards will be available to collect at Download. A charge of £30 will be made for lost or non-returned hire SI cards. After your run they must be returned at download. Competitors with standard or hired SI cards must dib at all controls including the start and finish.

It is the competitor’s responsibility to ensure that their SI card has registered at the control.

Course Information

Course	Length (k)	Climb (m)	Start	Super League Classes
Black	11	380	West	M21
Brown	9.8	350	West	M20, M35, M40, M45, W21
Blue	5.9	160	West	M16, M18, M50, M55, M60, W35, W40
Short Blue	4.8	120	West	M65, W18, W20, W45, W50
Green	3.9	100	West	M70, W16, W55, W60
Short Green	3.8	100	West	M75, M80, M85, M90 W65, W70
Very Short Green	2.7	80	West	W75, W80, W85, W90
Light Green	2.7	80	East	M14, W14
Orange	2.7	70	East	M12, W12
Yellow	2.2	70	East	M10, W10
White	1.8	60	East

For the YHOA Superleague you can run any course you wish and score points; the standard class and course mapping is shown above. Black, Brown, Blue, Short Blue and Green are at 1:10000, the rest are 1:7500. Black, Brown and Blue are on A3, the rest on A4.

There will be a String Course available located adjacent to the parking.

Parents/children: Please note this is more of a ‘navigational exploration’ than a race for the terrain is quite rough and rocky underfoot. You will need to negotiate rabbit holes and some scattered thistles. The limestone can be quite slippery if wet, however no climbing or scrambling is necessary. All welcome. Have fun! Here is a link to the map Malham String Course Map

Terrain Description

UPDATE 09/09/24

For those who have run at events on Malham Moor in the past you will notice a marked change in the area. The sheep cropped lawns of the past have almost disappeared as some areas have not been grazed for some time. Where grazing has been limited tall grasses now dominate the area. Caution is strongly advised as you approach or pass areas of limestone pavement, particularly small ones, as the vegetation has started to encroach, and some edges are no longer clearly defined. All courses TD3 and above will encounter areas of rougher running but this has been kept to a minimum for the shorter courses.

The White and Yellow courses use line features. A couple of the paths have not been used for some time. On the Yellow course they will have a taped route from control 1 to 2 where the path has almost disappeared. This appears in the control descriptions for Yellow. Towards the end both White and Yellow follow a narrow path towards a gate crossing. Smiley faces will be put out along the path as reassurance that they are on the correct line. Both Yellow and White will cross a stile on a public right of way and will have to pass through an open gate. All other courses will also have crossing points to negociate.

The area has many dry stone walls that are marked uncrossable. To reduce the length of the control descriptions “Use marked crossing points” has not been added to course description lists. The uncrossable walls and crossing points are clearly marked with a purple overprint. The dry stone walls in the area need to be crossed ONLY at designated crossing points. These crossing points MUST be used, and include specially constructed stiles, farm gates which can be climbed, open gateways or gates, and stiles on public rights of way. Any damage to walls or gates is to be reported to the organiser to allow repairs.

At the moment, the weather forecast is for rain and light winds with gusts for the duration of the event. Check the weather forecast before leaving home and come prepared.

Dog restrictions

Sorry no dogs allowed even in assembly area.

Contacts / Officials

Organiser: Liz Carter & Jo Buckley lizcarter150 AT outlook.com

Planner: Ian Furlong

Controller: Tony Carlyle