WORLD ORIENTEERING DAY EVENT
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COURSE CLOSE: 6:45 pm
Winter Wednesday Training 2019
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Winter Wednesday Training 2019
Time: Map hand out at 6 pm. Course closure at 7.30 pm.
Courses: Hard (6 km) and Moderate (4 km) with shortening options. No results. No SI.
Park sessions: Roughly monthly as indicated. Shorter courses, higher speed.
Equipment: Orienteering gear. Head lamp. Compass.
Cost: Gold coin donation to cover map printing costs.
Location: Please see the flyer for locations
Sun 2 Jun: Bush (NOY3) - Fassifern Ridge
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SUNDAY 2nd June 2019 - NOY3
Fassifern Ridge
Directions: At the traffic lights on Toronto Road, Fennell Bay head west into Macquarie Road, then in 1.2 km park on the left hand (southern) side of the road adjacent to Croft Park. The assembly area will be at Croft Park.
Map: Fassifern Ridge 1:10,000 4 metre contours. Revised Ian Dempsey August 2017 with minor revisions by Steven Roberts June 2018 and April 2019. Black crosses show car wrecks. Black circles indicate wreckage.
Terrain: Undulating to very steep and mostly open forest. There’s an extensive track network, (some tracks have altered slightly and some older ones might be less recognisable) many parallel watercourses, and rock detail on the higher slopes. The lower gullies have some patches of slow run and walk.
Vetter:
Start Location: Walk to the start is an easy 600m (allow 10 minutes). Please follow the streamers to the start area to ensure we avoid trespassing on an adjacent property. Follow the same streamers back from the finish. Please take extra care crossing Macquarie road on the way to the start and from the finish.
Courses::
There will be some steep climbs to the main ridges. Courses have been set to enjoy areas of open runnable forest (or track options). All Hard courses do have legs that involve contouring across steep slopes. The Very Easy, Easy and Moderate courses will navigate using suburban streets early in their course. The Very Easy course does not cross a road, however the others do. Please take care.
| Course | Length(km) | Climb | ||
| String | ||||
| Very easy | 2.0 | 96 | ||
| Easy | 2.3 | 96 | ||
| Moderate short | 2.5 | 108 | ||
| Moderate long | 3.5 | 152 | ||
| Hard short | 3.0 | 120 | ||
| Hard Medium | 4.5 | 200 | ||
| Hard long | 6.2 | 240 | ||
Safety: The steeper slopes are gravelly – take care. Safety bearing is south towards the assembly area
Start times: 9:30 to 11:30am with course closure at 1pm. Please ensure you start your course with enough time to complete it prior to course closure
Notes:
- Black crosses show car wrecks.
- Black circles indicate wreckage.
Sun 26 May: Bush (Minor - Pairs) - Blue Gum Hills
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SUNDAY 26th May 2019 - Minor (Pairs)
Blue Gum Hills, Minmi
More information will be available closer to the event
Read more: Sun 26 May: Bush (Minor - Pairs) - Blue Gum Hills
Sun 12 May: Bush (NOY2) - Wallaroo National Park
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SUNDAY 12th May 2019 - NOY 2
Wallaroo National Park
RESULTS (On Eventor) | SPLITS (On Winsplits)
Directions:
FROM THE SOUTH. Head north on the Pacific Hwy. from Hexham, through Heatherbrae. Travel 1.7KM past the Italia Road turn-off and turn left for about 50mtrs, before turning right along the old Pacific Hwy. Follow this sealed road (with some pot-holes) for 1.7KM to the end of the tar. (Adjacent to the Twelve Mile Creek rest centre.) Veer left, then right and follow (with care) the gravelly forest road for 640M, before turning left on to Ten Mile Rd. The assembly area will be another 1.25KM.
Parking:
Parking will be restricted. Please park, one car behind the other, as far left as possible along this road. Make sure there is room for traffic to move in the other direction. (Take care when walking to the assembly/ start area.) A turning area will be available at the head of the parking queue. Parking space will be limited so we strongly encourage car-pooling or riding a bike from the end of the old highway (sealed section), where there are several areas for parking. Parking can also be found at the start of Ten Mile Road beneath the powerlines (area in yellow on map below)
Map: Rocky Rides 1:10 000 (part of Wallaroo NP)
Facilities:
Vetter: Denis Lyons
Courses::
All courses will be of NOY standard (Visit controls in numerical order).
| Course | Length(km) | Notes | ||
| String | ||||
| Very easy | 1.7km | Follow tracks | ||
| Easy | 2.3km | Controls not far from tracks. | ||
| Moderate short | 2.3km | Involves cross-country navigation to large features | ||
| Moderate long | 3.0km | as above | ||
| Hard short | 3.4km | Some difficult navigation | ||
| Hard Medium | 5.5km | as above | ||
| Hard long | 7.2km | as above |
THE FINISH WILL BE 450m south of the assembly area, on a side track to the entry road. When you finish follow the road, or a path on the eastern side of the road, back to the assembly area to report in and download your result.
Safety:
Start times: 9:30 to 11:30am with course closure at 1pm. Please ensure you start your course with enough time to complete it prior to course closure
Further notes:
(1) Hard long, Hard medium and Moderate long will need to cross an old fence which runs east-west on the northern side of a track, in the northern part of the map. Tapes will highlight this fence near where the course line would cross it.
(2) The area is frequented by trail bikes and 4WD’s. If you hear them coming – move out of their way.
(3) NEW STYLE SYMBOLS will be used.
--- Prominent tree-root mounds will be a brown “Triangle”.
--- Termite mounds, meat-ant nests and native cherry trees will NOT be shown.
(4) Magnetic north lines are now 300m apart.
(5) At least five helpers are needed to collect controls at each event.
