Hunter Valley Championships - Gretley
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Update: For those wondering this map is joins the NSW champs Blue Gum Hills event on its southern most border. So this might be a good example of the type of terrain you will encounter at that event.
Venue:(Wallsend- western edge.) From Hope St. (which runs beside Plattsburg park) turn west into Downie lane.At the end of Downie lane turn left into boundary Rd. and look for directions to parking in an open area on the right. The assembly/ finish area will be 120m south up a track from the SE. part of the parking area. There will be a 270m walk to the start.
Map: New map GRETLEY (1:7 500) This scale has been chosen to aid clarity for controls in some areas of intense rock.Most of the area has not been used before. A small portion was on the original Brush Ck. map, before the Link Rd. was constructed.
Terrain: Undulating on top of, and below, some very steep sided ridges.Sections of these steep slopes have intense rock formations.There are some massive rock faces, hunks of rock and boulders. Relative mapping techniques have been used. (ie. 1m boulders and rock faces may only rate as rocky ground in the intensely rocky areas.)
Courses: Very Easy 1.5km, Easy 2.4km, Moderate Short 2.4km, Moderate Long 3.0km, Hard Short 2.9km, Hard Medium 4.2km, Hard Long 6.3km. See separate notice (in newsletter) for the classes that are available if you wish to be part of the Hunter Valley Championships.
Entries: Enter on the day, at time to suit you, 9:30 – 11:30. Courses close at 1:00pm.
Course Planner: Denis Lyons
Mappers Notes:The area was formally the surrounds of an old coal mine. Much of the area is uneven under foot, due to past activity or where subsidence rehabilitation has been carried out. Competitors are advised to be careful with their footing especially where the grass is long or thick and in rocky areas. Areas where subsidence cracking is known to still exist are marked on the map with purple dots and highlighted in the field with pink/purple hanging streamers or continuous barrier tape.
Lantana has invaded parts of the map area. Sections which can be navigated are shown with solid green dots. The closer, and bigger the dots, the harder it is to get through. Areas mapped as solid green are impenetrable even at narrow sections.
Full body cover, and ankle protection, is recommended.
Planners Notes:Most meat-ant nests (brown X) and termite mounds (brown triangle) are shown on the map. Both are represented by * symbol in control descriptions.For this event no meat-ant nests have been used as control sites.
A number of streamer trails (orange coloured) will be used on Very Easy and Easy courses.These trails will be shown on all maps as purple dashes.NB. The Very Easy course will have some streamers to help them move from the start to their first control. This trail goes close to their control 5. Competitors are reminded to visit controls in numerical order.
The narrow marsh (part of a contour drain) which leads all competitors away from the start currently has some bogy sections. Run to one side.
Web Guys Notes: Trying out the new google map engine and so there may be a few changes in the google map view.