EBORIENTEERS are delighted to invite you to The White Rose Orienteering Weekend 2007 - one of the longest established and most popular orienteering holiday breaks which offers three days of varied orienteering on excellent North Yorkshire terrain in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.

The weekend includes various orienteering competitions including Regional Events on Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th August, a night score event on Saturday evening and, on Monday 27th August, a fast and furious team relay and a mountain bike score event.

LOCATION

The weekend will be held in the southern part of Pickering Forest, just N of the village of Newton on Rawcliffe, 11km N of Pickering. The assembly, parking and campsite is expected to be close to Seavy Slack Farm, north of Stony Moor, with easy road access from Pickering.

The event will be signed from the Pickering to Stape road, at GR SE 797923 2km N of Newton on Rawcliffe.

Public Transport to Pickering (11km away from the event) is possible by "Coastliner" bus 840, approx hourly from York station or S&D bus 128 also hourly from Scarborough station. There are several "Moorbus" services daily in summer between Pickering and Newton on Rawcliffe.

PARKING

The fee for parking will be £1.00 per vehicle per day, however campsite users have parking for the entire weekend included in their pitch fee. For day visitors parking fees will be collected daily on arrival.

DOGS

Dogs will be permitted in the car park, assembly and campsite field only, and must be kept on a lead. Dogs may not be taken on courses.

TERRAIN

Pickering Forest is one of the best parts of the North Riding Forest Park for orienteering. The deep wooded valley of Newton Dale contains Pickering Beck and provides an easy route for the railway between Pickering and Whitby. Its 80m high, 5km long western afforested slope provides good technical terrain - hence its use for major events in the past. The event planners will provide more information over the next few months - so come back for updated and more detailed information.

The intricate mixed forest of Scarfhill Rigg and Raindale, N and W of Newton Dale will provide challenge and the delightful semi-open area of Stony Moor is both scenically delightful and full of technical interest. The W side of Newton Dale, Newton Bank and Stony Moor provide the best technical orienteering in the area and (most) courses will maximise use of this wonderful terrain.

MAP

For all events (except MTBO) the map scale will be 1:10,000 resurveyed and updated for White Rose 2007 by Acorn Maps. All maps will be overprinted and bagged. Any special information will be included with the final details.

REGIONAL EVENT COURSES

Long and short courses will be available for all senior age classes from M/W21 to M/W75. We will also provide very short courses for M21 and W21. All senior courses will be planned to technical level 5. Junior courses will be planned in accordance with non-age class arrangements with courses as follows JM1, JW1, JM2, JW2, JM3, JW3, JM4, JW4, JM5L, JM5M, JM5S, JW5L, JW5S. Courses for these junior courses will be planned according to BOF guidelines.

SportIdent Electronic Punching is being used throughout the weekend. SI "cards" can be hired for the duration of the weekend.

You cannot run a novice or colour coded event, or shadow a junior before you run a regional event course. Anyone doing so will become non-competitive for their regional event course.

Colour coded courses (Red, Yellow and White) will be available for novices on Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th August.

A free picture string course will be provided for young children on Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th August.

TEAM SCORE COURSES

For the third year running, there will be a Team score event on Monday 27th August. On courses A, B and C, all three members of the team will start at the same time and will decide who will visit which controls. The objective being to collect the maximum number of points between the three members of the team within a defined period of time. There will be three senior courses (A, B and C) and a junior course (D). See below for details.

In course D for the youngest juniors, the three runners will all start together, but there will be defined cross-country courses for each runner rather than a score competition.

NIGHT SCORE COURSE

A new extra competition will be available at WR2007 - an informal night score event on the Saturday evening. With mass start at 20:00 hrs, a 30 minute score competition will provide an opportunity to experience Pickering Forest at night. Although there will be just one score course, we will offer prizes to runners in up to ten competitive classes.

MBO COURSES

A two hour score event will be provided (one hour for novices). Normal orienteering kites and SI punching will be used. The terrain used for this event will be larger than used for the foot-O and will use an overprinted 1:25000 map. The MTBO event at the White Rose (flyer) is provided by North Yorkshire Mountain Bike Orienteers. Foot-O competitors that want to try the MTBO event can hire mountain bikes locally from various locations.

CAMPSITE AND ASSEMBLY

The assembly area is expected to be a large secluded grass field, away from the road and close to the competition area. This means that (if possible) regional event courses will finish in or very close to the assembly area – check final details later for information about facilities for Club tents along the run-in. The assembly area will be large enough to provide a large exclusive orienteering campsite, separate parking for day visitors and O traders, including Wilf’s Café, Compass Point and Ultrasport.

EVENT OFFICERS - Please contact the Coordinator and Entries Secretary via the contact page of this website.

Orienteering is an adventure sport. You attend and compete in this event at your own risk.