CompassSport Cup Final

When:: Sunday 17 October 2010, 10:30
Where:: Burbage Moor
Category:: Major
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Comments from the Planner.

Were the courses too long? The winning times were as expected, but I suspect some competitors were out longer than anticipated. The heather is tough on Burbage and, even if the bracken has started to die down, it still slows progress considerable. Many of the long legs did provide some path running alternative but it seemed that most opted for the straight routes through the heather/bracken. Thank you for many good comments, my favourite was ‘yes some of the controls were tucked away, but they were all in the right place’.

Thanks to Nick, Clare, Charles, Hannah and Ian for helping with the control hanging and to Bill, Guy, Jenny, Ed, Colin, Aidan and Ian for collecting the controls. All controls were collected in by 1630, with nothing going missing. Thanks also to Ian for clearing many bags of rubbish out of the valley woods to make it more pleasant for you.

Thanks also to Ray, the controller, for checking that all was in the right place and that you did not get an even longer course (Green Men in particular).

Hope you enjoyed a glorious Burbage in the autumn sun. Monika

Safety & risk

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Venue

Burbage Moor is predominately open moorland with heather and moor grass. Areas of complex rock detail and sometimes steep detailed contour features, together with the central woodland, whose runnablity is increasing year by year, provide a variety of orienteering challenges. There are many transient sheep tracks which can be helpful and the deer are starting to encroach from Big Moor, which may lead to more tracks. The quality of the orienteering is high enough to allow level A events such as the Compassport Cup Final 2010 and National Event/Senior Home International in 2006.

Burbage has a long history that dates back at least 4,000 years from the prehistoric sites such as Carl Wark hillfort, burial barrows and cairn fields, through medieval packhorse routes and iron smelting sites to centuries of millstone making. Much more recently the moors were used as training grounds and the location of an aircraft decoy defence during World War 2.