Cassiobury
Welcome to one of our Saturday series events. Beginners are very welcome and there are courses for all standards.
| TERRAIN |
 Runnable parkland with some wooded areas, some with significant undergrowth. Full leg and torso cover required for Orange course and above. |
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| PARKING | Fullerians Rugby Club, Coningesby Dr, Watford WD17 3BD. Please follow the parking marshalls’ directions. | ||||||||||||||||||
| PUBLIC TRANSPORT | Watford Junction station 2.4km, Watford Metropolitan station 1.8km. | ||||||||||||||||||
| COURSES | Courses for everybody from beginners of any age to experienced orienteers.
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| BEGINNERS | First timers are very welcome. Look for our greeters in hi-vis jackets who will give you socially-distanced help.
If you’re not run before, we suggest most people start with yellow. Young juniors, say primary school age, and family groups are better on white. People confident with a map and compass may start on orange. |
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| ENTRY & FEES | Entry now open via SI Entries. You must enter in advance. Online entry will remain open until 11:15 on the day. BOF members: Adults £4, Juniors £2, HH juniors free. Non-members: Adults £6, Juniors £3. Dibber hire £1. Charge for lost dibbers £30. Please note the cut-off time for requesting a hire dibber is 2 days before the event i.e 11:59pm on the Thursday before. If you have your own dibber you may enter online even on the day, provided there are maps available. |
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| STARTS | When you enter, you can choose a 15 minute start block between 10:00 and 11:30. The event centre is about 650 m from the start and 750m from the finish. Courses close 12:45 |
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| TIMING | SportIdent punching will be used. SIAC will be enabled but the Start and Finish controls must be punched. | ||||||||||||||||||
| CONTROL DESCRIPTIONS | Control descriptions will be on the map, not separately. | ||||||||||||||||||
| MAP | 1:7,500 with 5m contours, fully revised for this event.
Avoid all areas marked out of bounds, including the new children’s playground and pool areas. The golf course to the west of the map is out of bounds. For map of a previous event see here. |
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| FACILITIES | Toilets in the Rugby Club. Please bring your own drinks. | ||||||||||||||||||
| DOGS | Please respect the sports pitches and keep dogs on lead / clear up behind you. No dogs inside the event centre. | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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.
The river and canal are deep; the river can be very muddy and the canal carries barge traffic. Use bridges – marked as crossing points on the map – to cross all bodies of water shown with a black border. Please show respect to other users of the park. You should abide by the British orienteering Covid-19 Code of Conduct. In particular:
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| RESULTS | Interim results will be published direct to the club website every few minutes during the event. There will be no printed results (apart from your own splits) or WiFi available, so there is no need to hang around.
Full results will be published to the same location and to Routegadget; we aim to do so on the day of the event. |
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| OFFICIALS |
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The small print
This event is registered with British Orienteering, number 80842
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 have to cancel for a COVID-related reason, write to entries@herts-orienteering.club and we will give a full refund. If we have to cancel the event we will offer a choice of a full refund or a voucher for use at a future HH event. That choice will be sent to the email address used for the original entry. If you do not reply by the deadline, the default is a voucher.
