Result

Results, Routegadget and Winsplits  available above. 
PG

A regional orienteering event in the beautiful woodland and nature reserve of West Haigh and New Springs. Experienced orienteers will enjoyable the runnable terrain and interesting contour detail while newcomers and juniors are well catered for with the extensive path network. 

How to Enter

Please pre-enter via Fabian4 by Sunday 8th January. 

There are some maps left so there will be entry on the day, subject to map availability.

Fees

Adults - British Orienteering members £8, non-members £10
Juniors and full time students £4
Family - members £20, non-members £24 - 2 adults and any number of children from one family running different courses

Pairs / Family groups welcome. Just pay for one entry.
SI card ( dibber) hire £1, (£30 fee if lost)

Location & Parking

Will not be signed
Roadside and in industrial units on Springvale Road, off the roundabout on A6195
Park Spring Road. Please follow directions given by marshals and take care both to park safely and not block the road to other users, share transport if possible. 

Bus 27/a stops in Grimethorpe; it is a further 600m walk to the event parking.

Clayburn Road open space will be used for enquires, finish and download. Nearest postcode S72 7BE. W3W: unique.origin.contracts.

Timings

Start times - 10.30-12.30.

The start is within 500m of assembly, closer to some of the parking. Punching start with start time flexibility.  Please take extra care walking to the start and ensure young children are suitably supervised.

Courses close at 1430, controls will be collected and any finishers after this time will be considered retired. Start early if you are going to be out a long time. Please don’t forget to download when you have finished, this is our safety check we do not want to mount an unnecessary search!

Safety
Please read these instructions and there may be additional instructions at the start.
Compulsory waterproof coats are unlikely but are advised if wet or cold.
Fences marked with a solid purple line must not be crossed use marked crossings and gates only. The lines between controls will be diverted around out of bounds where they are compulsory. Where these lines are
broken any route may be used. 

The brown course has 2 road crossings, on the way out to Howell woods stay on the left hand verge until you reach opposite the foot path across the road, take care crossing the road, there is usually moderate traffic but good visibility. On the way back from Howell woods there is 350m of quiet lane and then recrossing the main road back into West Haigh, again take care. These sections are included in your time on the course but use common sense and stay safe.

There are plenty of dog walkers, horse riders and mountain bikers who use the area, please be
courteous. There are also off-road motor cyclists quad bikers and car drivers who use a field
and some of the woods in the centre, they may be encountered by the runners on light green
and above, and on a wide track that is used for a short distance on all courses. Please keep out
of their way, you can hear them coming!

Cultivated fields marked yellow with black dots are out of bounds except on the brown
course on the way back from Howell woods where there is a short route that follows the side
of a ditch across the field. Please stay close to the ditch.

Terrain

West Haigh is sloping, runnable beech and birch woodland with depressions and pits. Howell is recently ( 2020) remapped undulating woodland with many holly bushes and rhododendrons. New Park Springs is a nature reserve planted on the old Grimethorpe Colliery tip. It is a mixture of hilly, rough and runnable open with fairly new planting which is extensively runnable. It makes a valuable addition to the previous West Haigh and Howell map. Our thanks go to Barnsley council, Doncaster council, the Land trust and many small local land owners for the use of this area. Dogs are allowed and must be on a lead at all times while you are taking part in the event.

Courses

Please note: the distances quoted are straight line through terrain. You will run further than the distances quoted.

Courses          length km      climb m     controls

White                 1.9                 30            10
Yellow                2.3                50              8
Orange              2.6                 50             7
Light green         3.5               60               7
Short green        3.6               60              8
Green                4.5                75            10
Blue                   6.2              100            14
Brown                9.1              150             15  no under 16s -sorry

Courses close 1430

Loose control descriptions available at the start

There is no legend on the map but these will be available at registration/download and at the start.

Map

Based on Peel land survey 2020, most recently updated this year.

1:10000, 5m contours, legend on the map. Loose control descriptions will be available in the start lane.

Only the brown course goes to Howell woods, there will be 2 short sections of road runs to join the areas totalling 500m, so no under 16s may enter brown.

Maps for white and yellow available at prestart for newcomers / young juniors to examine before running. All others after the start.

Event officials

Planner Dave Peel SYO,
Organiser Amanda Crawshaw SYO 07931564317 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Controller Lucy Wiegand SYO