Summer Evening Event - Teggs Nose
A summer evening event offering courses that are suitable for newcomers and for experienced orienteers.
As well as the usual colour-coded courses, we are offering a 2-part Score course. See below for details and approximate course lengths.
Thu 23rd May 2024
Type of event: Regional
Type of terrain: Moorland, Parkland
Info updated: 26th May
Results
Event Report
Provisional Results and Splits.
Please email for any queries.
Controller's Comments - Clare Griffin
Well done to the hardy orienteers who came to our summer evening event hoping for expansive Cheshire views and instead found 20m visibility and horizontal rain. The recent extravagant amounts of precipitation had an effect both on the veg growth and underfoot conditions which made the TD5 courses in particular hard going.
Finally we're sorry for the weird error that caused some line course maps to show the control codes instead of their number in the sequence. The final QC for the courses was rushed, to reach a print deadline before Eddie's holiday, and this slipped through. Apologies to those for whom it caused problems.
Pre Event Info
Pre-entries via SiEntries please
Location
Nearest town: Macclesfield
- Grid Ref: SJ949732
- Postcode: SK11 0AP
- Latitude: 53.25652
- Longitude: -2.07592
- Google Map
- Streetmap (OS 50k)
- Bing Map (OS 50k)
- OpenStreetMap
Directions / Parking
Signed from A537 at the east of Macclesfield. Parking charge (meter).
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Registration & Start Times
Online entries closing date: 22/05/2024.
Limited late entry plus EOD at the event, subject to the availability of maps. Pay with card or cash.
Registration from 17:00. Start times: 17:30-19:00. All courses close at 20:15.
Collect hire SI cards if necessary.
Course Information
Courses suitable for newcomers and for experienced orienteers:
Course length and approximate climb:
- Blue: 4.2 km and 250m
- Green: 3.1 km and 160m
- Short Green: 2.3 km and 135m
- Very Short Green: 1.6 km and 65m
- Light Green: 2.2 km and 115m
- Orange: 2.0 km and 90m
- Yellow: 1.7 km and 65m
- White: 1.4 km and 35m
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- 2-part Score (2 x 30mins), 13 controls on each part. Part 1: easy, Part 2: harder. All controls are worth 20 points each, with penalties being 1 point per 2 seconds late back.
Explanation of colour courses
- White are very easy with all controls on paths. They are mainly used by 6-10 year olds and family groups.
- Yellow use simple linear features like paths, walls and streams. They are mainly used by under 12’s and family groups.
- Orange progress to basic use of the compass and route choice. They are ideal for novice adults or experienced youngsters.
- Light Green are ideal for improvers as the navigational difficulty begins to increase and uses simple contours and point features.
- Green are used mostly by experienced under 18’s and adults wanting a short but challenging course with a very hard navigational difficulty.
- Blue are a longer, more physically demanding course in comparison to the green. The distances are more varied between controls and the course attracts experienced orienteers.
- Brown & Black are very physically demanding and have a very hard navigational difficulty. They are for experienced orienteers only.
- Score means visiting as many controls as possible in any order in a specific time, like 45mins.
Entry Details
Fees: £7.00 seniors and £3.00 juniors. (£1 discount for MDOC members)
Free SI-dibber loan (but £30 if not returned).
Facilities
Toilets at the visitor centre.
First Aid will be available at Registration.
Contacts / Officials
Series Co-ordinator: Tony Wagg 0161 445 0902, enquiries to:
Safety and Risk
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