Minor Event - West Wallsend/O'Donnelltown

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Venue: From West Wallsend proceed west along Carrington Street and then Railway Street. Turn right into O’Donnelltown Road. Look for and follow O signs directing you to the parking and assembly area.

Parking will be on O’Donneltown Road before the bridge over the Freeway. The start and assembly area will be a short walk down the tar road that leads to the Freeway Underpass. Note that this road is now blocked by a gate that is only passable on foot.

Map: O'Donnelltown Rock East
Terrain: Classic Newcastle spur-gully terrain, gently undulating to very steep, intricate track network with a lot of sandstone rock in the north eastern corner. In some areas the vegetation has thickened with full body cover recommended.
Courses: 

There will be normal line courses for Very Easy, Easy and Moderate courses.

Hard Long and Hard Short will be split into four sections.
Section 1 will be Map Memory where you will see the next leg printed on a map but you need to determine and memorise your route before you commence that leg as competitors will NOT have a copy of the map with them.

Section 2. Here you pick up your map for the rest of your course. For these controls you will have control descriptions but NO control codes so competitors will choose the correct control (Yes there are dummy controls close by) from the description.

Section 3. In the next sequence of 5 to 6 controls I have deliberately NOT placed ONE control in the bush. For that control competitors need to be certain they are in the correct location and hence they will have a blank square on their control card.

Section 4. Competitors choose which 5 out of 7 controls they visit then proceed to the finish.

Entries: Enter on the day, at time to suit you, 9:30 – 11:30. Courses close at 1:00pm.
Course Planner: Colin Bailey

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