Moneyhole Park – Event cancelled

Saturday 04 July 2020

Welcome to our Saturday Series event. Beginners are very welcome and there are courses for all standards.

Moneyhole Lane Playing Fields, Panshanger , Sylvan Way, Panshanger, AL7 2RT

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Newcomers welcome! Look out for our greeters who will be wearing high-viz jackets and they will give you all the help you need to get going…

This event is part of Welwyn Garden City’s centenary celebrations.

This event is also part of the GLOSS summer series of events around London.

TERRAIN
PARKING
PUBLIC TRANSPORT
Courses for everybody from beginners of any age to experienced orienteers.

Course Straight line Distance Difficulty
White 1.0-2.0 km Easy – all along paths, control flags whenever you need to decide to turn.
Yellow 2.0-3.0 km Fairly easy – navigate along line features such as paths, walls, streams. Some turns with no control flags.
Orange 2.5-3.5 km Moderate – start cutting across country, some controls a bit away from line features.
GLOSS
(Light Green)		 3.0-4.5 km Harder – a range of navigational skills needed to find controls on any mapped feature.
GLOSS
+ extension
 4.5-6.0 km As hard as we can make it on the area.

You may enter any course and will automatically be entered in the club’s Saturday League unless you ask not to.
STARTS Register from 10:00 to 11:15 or visit http://sat.maptypes.org to reserve map/dibber and skip the form-filling queue.
Starts from 10:15 – 11:30. Courses close at 12:45.
FEES Non-members: Adults £6, Juniors £3
BOF members: Adults £4, Juniors £2
HH juniors free; adults accompanying juniors are also free but will need to pay £1 if they need an extra map.
Card payment is available, subject to mobile phone signal.
PUNCHING Sportident punching will be used.
Dibber hire £1.00. Charge for lost dibbers £30
MAP 1:7500 pre-marked maps for all courses on waterproof paper.
FACILITIES
DOGS
SAFETY Orienteering is an adventure sport. You take part at your own risk and are responsible for your own safety. A full risk assessment will have been carried out.
RESULTS There will be a local WiFi network near download accessible from any smart-phone or tablet providing the following:

  • Live Results and splits updated every few minutes.
  • Live SplitsBrowser also updated every few minutes. Very few events provide this!

Go to network hhresults. There is no password.

Full results will be published on www.herts-orienteering.club and Routegadget; we aim to do so on the day of the event.
OFFICIALS
Planner John Duffield
Organiser Adam Leaf
Controlling
The small print

Event registered with British Orienteering, no 76659.

Orienteering is a great sport for youngsters. If you bring children, please help us to keep to our safeguarding policy and British Orienteering’s photography policy.

Your personal data is used for results and insurance, see our privacy policy.

If you enjoyed this event, why not join the club and British Orienteering. There are plenty of good reasons for joining.