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Setter's Report: I was really happy that today's event went well with nice weather (though on the cold side) and great turn out (perhaps due to the event location). I thought there would be a few missing who had competed in the 6/12 hour rogaine yesterday but quite a lot turned up in various states and limped around so great effort to you! The map is quite steep and detailed so I tried to set challenging courses that weren't too hard or gratuitous with climb for the easier and shorter courses at least. They may have been a little on the hard side given the longer finishing times but most competitors commented that they liked the courses and the challenge and everyone seemed to give it their best. I think the area is very interesting and pretty and will now miss the regular visits though I will be happy to stress less.
Thank you to XStrata and Newcastle City Council for permissions and XStrata and Ausgrid for putting a new lock on a few days before the event so that we could have access. Thanks to Martin for vetting, control placement, checking and collection and also for your encouragement and helpful advice to improve my courses. Thanks to Denis for organising permissions, control placement and manning the gate today. I couldn't have done this without either of you especially with my cold refusing to go away. Thanks to Rudi, Rob, Kendall, Stephen and Angus for also helping with control collection, Joy and Maria at the start, Malcolm, Merrilyn and Rudi at the finish and to everyone who helped setup and packup. Lastly thanks to everyone who came today and I hope you enjoyed it!
Sam
Location/Map: GRETLEY (1:7 500) This scale has been chosen to aid clarity for controls in some areas of intense rock. 5 metre contour interval.
Directions: From the Pacific Motorway (formerly freeway), take the Newcastle exit onto the Newcastle Link Road. Go straight through the traffic lights and the first roundabout. At the second roundabout, turn left (1st exit) and carefully go through the gate (manned) to the parking and assembly area.
From Wallsend, take the Newcastle Link Road (towards the motorway). At the first roundabout turn right (3rd exit) and carefully go through the gate (manned) to the parking and assembly area.
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.)
Setter: Samantha Howe
Vetter: Martin Quirke
Organisation: Samantha Howe
Courses: Full set of NOY courses. (3 hard, 2 moderate, easy and very easy)
HARD (Long) – 6.3km, 22 controls.
HARD (Medium) – 4.8km, 18 controls.
HARD (Short) - 3km, 14 controls.
MODERATE – 3.1km, 15 controls.
MODERATE (Short) – 2.5km, 13 controls.
EASY - 2km, 13 controls.
VERY EASY – 1.6km, 11 controls.
Start times: 9:30 to 11:30am with course closure at 1pm
Mapper's 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.
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