Ogden Water YHOA Championships & YHOA Superleague Event Sunday 30 October 2022 Revised Final Details

EPOC are pleased to welcome you to orienteer around the beautiful autumnal woods and moorland of Ogden Water.

Late Entries - Late entry is dependant on map availability. We will reopen the racesignup process until 12pm on Saturday 29th October or until the number of maps available has been reached. If your preferred course is full, you could try an alternative to see if this still has availability.

Seniors - £12 BO Members, £14 Non Members, Juniors - £5 (under 21 on 31st December 2022) Si Dibber hire - £1

Terrain & Map Notes - Ogden is a mixed woodland surrounding the reservoir with a good path network. It can be challenging, steep and intricate in places. Summer vegetation is subsiding but runnability is still rather mixed. Falling leaves can make indistinct paths harder to see on the ground. Steep slopes and deep ditches are potential hazards and care should be taken traversing them. If in doubt, there is usually a path option or an easier place to cross nearby. There are some fences marked as uncrossable. Crossing points on the map, shown with red and white tape on the ground must be used. If there is a choice of crossing points, the control line will be drawn an equal distance between them. Other fences can be crossed either at marked gates and stiles or at any suitable point along their length. Black, Brown, Short Brown, Blue and Short Blue courses use the open heather moorland around the wind turbines. Shooting butts on the moor have not been mapped.

Car Park Area - In a field adjacent to the Causeway Foot Inn accessed from the junction of the A629 Halifax - Keighley road and Ogden Lane. There will be a £1 parking fee per car. Toilets will be provided at the car park as well as public toi;ets next to assembly. DO NOT try to use the pub toilets. The regular 502 Halifax-Keighley bus service passes the entrance to the car park field. Parking could be tight, especially if it has been wet, please share transport where you can. Please do NOT park at the reservoir, it is very busy and we want to keep the local authority happy.

Postcode - HX2 8XX

Map Reference - SE069309

What3words - mixing.briskly.lengthen

Parking Of Larger Vehicles - Due to car park access, large camper vans (any vehicle larger than a VW camper) will need to use alternative parking on the opposite side of the main road to the turn off for Ogden Water (brown sign) and park on Syke Lane. Go beyond the houses to where the road widens. This will add 500m to the walk to the start/back from download.

Assembly - Enquiries, dibber hire, clothing dump, download and results will be in an indoor area near the reservoir on the route to the start, 500m taped walk from the car park.  Toilets will be available here and in the parking field. There is a small refreshment outlet and visitor centre opposite the assembly building. Please note, there is NO ‘O’ SHOP.

String Course - There will be a Halloween themed String Course adjacent to the assembly building.

Dogs - Well behaved dogs on leads are fine in the car park, and around Ogden Water. The pub is also dog friendly.

Toilets - Portaloos in carpark field. Public toilets are available next to the assembly buildings on the way to the start.

Map - Remapped with some small extensions in 2022 by Paul Taylor, CLOK. 1:7,500 scale for all courses with 5m contours. All maps are pre-marked on waterproof paper. Black, Brown, Short Brown and Blue A3 size, all other courses A4.

Start Times - 10.30 – 12.30

Courses close at 14.30.

Courses -

*The White Course will have 2 taped routes to help navigate between decision points where it has not been possible to site controls. The taped route will be shown on the control descriptions.

YHOA championship - Prizes will be awarded for the first Senior YHOA member in each age class and the first 3 Junior YHOA members in each age class. Certificates will be awarded to the first 3 in all age classes. To qualify you must run the course specified for your age class in the table above. There will be a small prize for first place in the M/W10 and 12 B class courses.

Prize Giving - 2pm in front of the assembly building

Control Descriptions - Description sheets will be printed on the map and available loose in the start lanes. White; yellow and orange courses use text descriptions

Electronic Punching - SI will be used for all courses and SIAC enabled. If you do not have your own Dibber they can be hired and paid for when you enter, or on the day at enquiries for £1.

Start - On the Ogden Water Dam wall, 500m from the car park and 100m from the assembly building. On the way to the Start from parking, you will go past Download and Assembly so clothing and Kit can be left there.

Finish- 400m walk to download in the assembly building.

Courses close - 2.30pm

Results - Final results will be published as soon as possible after the event at www.eastpennineoc.org.uk

After your run you could stop for lunch at the Causeway Foot Inn. Contact information and the menu can be found here. It might be wise to book! It is dog friendly.

The Causeway Foot Inn

Safety: 

Please look out for information in the car park about the need to carry waterproof tops. You may want to carry one anyway as the moorland terrain used by Black, Brown, Short Brown, Blue and Short Blue is exposed. Please take care along the taped routes to the start, to and from the assembly building and from the finish to the download in the assembly building as they are also used by cars accessing the public parking at Ogden Water.

If you are involved in any accidents, damage, injury or a dispute with a member of the public, please let us know when you report to download.

Lone competitors are advised to leave car keys at enquiries so we have an added check that you have returned, even if you forget to download.

A comprehensive risk assessment will be carried out by the organiser, but competitors take part at their own risk and are responsible for their own safety. All competitors who start must report to download even if they retire. In the unlikely event of cancellation, details will be posted on the EPOC website – www.eastpennineoc.org.uk Information can also be obtained by emailing the organiser.

Complaints and protests: 

If you have a complaint about your course, or any other aspect of the event, please come and discuss it initially with the Organiser or Planner at download/enquiries.  We will involve the Controller if necessary if the issue is related to the fairness of the course.  We will try and resolve all issues on the day.

Insurance:

Please note that if you are not a member of an orienteering club affiliated to British Orienteering then you are not covered by our public liability insurance except if you are a newcomer to orienteering, in which case you are covered for three registered orienteering events without joining. Please ask any of our club officials for more information if you would like to join EPOC.

COVID-19 The event will be organised in accordance with British Orienteering and Government Guidance in effect at the time of the event.

IF YOU HAVE ANY COVID SYMPTONS PLEASE STAY AT HOME – STAY SAFE

Organiser:

Rebecca Lloyd EPOC

Planners:

Connor Smith and Ben Carter EPOC

Controller:

Jonathan Emberton EPOC