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The 36th White Rose Orienteering weekend will be held in the south eastern North York Moors from 22nd to 25th August 2008. Since 1972, the "White Rose" has been a very popular date in the orienteering calendar combining good quality races in excellent North York Moors terrain with relaxed and "runner-friendly" organisation.
The White Rose is special in that it offers no less than five orienteering events in three days – an exceptional weekend of excellent enjoyable orienteering.
The White Rose is also one of the few O weekends to offer an exclusive campsite for competitors and this is what makes the event an exceptional opportunity for a real orienteering holiday weekend in really great North Yorkshire terrain. There is no doubt that one of the attractions of the White Rose is that the campsite means that you can park your car or campervan on Friday evening, knowing that you don’t need to move it again till Monday. Other accommodation options are available including numerous guest houses, B&B's, fully serviced campsites and youth hostels.
Click here, to read about White Rose 2006; or for a review of the highly successful WR2007 night event from the Oct 2007 edition of Compass Sport click here. Look out for the White Rose Competition in Compass Sport in early 2008 and the opportunity to win two entries for the entire weekend – worth nearly £90.
In 2008, the event returns to the Upper Derwent Valley in the SE corner of the North York Moors National Park - a venue used for successful JK and White Rose events over the last 30 years.
From its marshy source near Lilla Rigg on Fylingdales Moor, the infant Derwent passes alongside Langdale Forest and forms the boundary between the forest and the moor – the venue for the regional event on Saturday at White Rose 2008.
The river passes the surprisingly complex former military camp of Low North Park – which will be the location of the campsite and White Rose weekend assembly in 2008 - before entering a narrow gorge N of the tiny community of Langdale End.
To the E of the Derwent gorge lies the excellent forest terrain of Broxa Forest which, with the afforested scarp of Barns Cliff, will be used for the regional event on Sunday at White Rose 2008. To its W is the bare topped hill of Langdale Rigg.
Low North Park, where White Rose 2008 will be based, is located 12km NW of Scarborough and 16km S of Whitby.
As always, the White Rose will provide two top quality regional events on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th where aggregate times are used for the award of White Rose Trophies. There will then be a fast and furious team score event on Monday 25th August. Entries for this will be open to all, and teams need not all be members of the same club. The White Rose Mountain Bike Score event will be held on Monday 25th, timed so that the super-fit and super-enthusiastic can compete in the MTBO event after their day 3 team score run. MTBO competitors can ride individually or in pairs.
Following the great success of the informal night score event in 2007, White Rose 2008 will again include an informal night score event on the Saturday night. With mass start at 21:00 hrs, the 30 minute format provides a great alternative view of the forest in the mid evening – close to the campsite.
The start arrangements for the two regional events will be simple with flexible timings.
We plan that (if possible) the finish on all three days will be in the assembly area/camp site providing the essential social element to the overall weekend.