Venue: | Fairy Knowe and Doon Hill |
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Nearest town: | Aberfoyle |
Event centre: | Scottish Wool centre |
Postcode: | FK8 3UQ |
Grid reference: | NN522008 |
Description: | This area to the South of Aberfoyle has pretty much everything. Lots of good contour and rock detail, with the occasional marsh thrown in. The vegetation is a mix of deciduous woodland and mature plantation. An area new to all but the more senior orienteers, map originally drawn by Donald Petrie in the 1980s and now completely remapped by Marcus Pinker in 2012. The mapped area comprises a mixture of mature deciduous and plantation forest. The eastern third is mainly ancient oak wood, mostly very runnable aside from some patches of bracken (unmapped) which are now dying back and shouldn’t affect running speeds significantly. The remainder of the area is mature working coniferous plantation. Some of this has been severely affected by last winter’s gales and subsequent forestry operations to extract fallen timber. As a result, parts of the map contain many unmapped vehicle tracks, though these are obviously new and shouldn’t confuse experienced orienteers. In addition, some mapped tracks have been badly churned up by machinery and may be hard going in wet conditions. Despite this, the area is packed with interesting detail, is mostly runnable, and should offer a great orienteering challenge. It is also quite hilly, which is reflected by the climb on most courses |
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Type: | Long |
Physical difficulty of terrain: | Hard |
Entry times: | JEC: 10:00 till 11:00 SOL: 11:00 till 13:00 |
Punch type: | SI |
Event number: | 67267 |
Event website: | Click here |
Final details web page: | Click here |
Course description: | TBA |
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Colour coded courses: | String, White, Yellow, Orange, Light Green, Long Orange, Short Green, Green, Short Blue, Blue, Short Brown, Brown, Black |
XS 0-2.5km | S 2.6-5.0km | M 5.1-7.5km | L 7.6-10km | XL 10.1km + | |
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Course Technical Difficulty and Length (Km) are a guide to the standard of the courses offered. |
Payment date | Junior/student | Senior | Family/group |
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15/07/2016 - 18/09/2016 (Pre-entry) | £6.00 | £12.00 | N/A |
15/07/2016 - 18/09/2016 (Pre-entry TD 1-3) | £6.00 | £8.00 | N/A |
02/10/2016 - 02/10/2016 (EOD) | £8.00 | £14.00 | N/A |
02/10/2016 - 02/10/2016 (EOD TD 1-3) | £8.00 | £10.00 | N/A |
Online entry via: | www.oentries.com/event/details/561-clyde-scottish-orienteering-league-6-including-jec-specta |
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Online entry closing date: | 18/09/2016 |
Club: | CLYDE |
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Association: | SOA |
Contact: | Kate Thomas |