Mardens Hill

Pre Event Info

Location

Nearest town: Crowborough

• Grid Ref:
• Postcode: TN6 1XP
• Latitude: 51.06368
• Longitude: 0.14278
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Directions / Parking

Car parking will be at the Horder Centre, St Johns Road, Crowborough TN6 1XP. ///thorax.configure.hobby. 

There will be a taped route to the Start from the car park (500m) and from the finish (200m).

Registration & Start Times

Starts between 11-12.30pm. Courses Close at 2.00pm

Course Information

There will be five line courses plus a 60 minute score course

Yellow           1.8k    55m climb

Orange         2.7k    110m climb

Light Green  3.5k    135m climb

Green           4.8k    175m climb

Blue              6.1k    240m climb

Score

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

Pre-entry in advance on RaceSignUp link here

Maximum of 70 competitors as agreed with Ashdown Forest.

Terrain Description

Map is at 1:7500, 5m contour interval. Mapped by Peel Land Surveys February 2022 and updated by David Kingdon April 2023. 

This will be the first open event held using this map (it was used for Saxons anniversary event last year); the area was previously mapped as East Ashdown about 25 years ago. Typical Ashdown Forest terrain but on the lower slopes of the Forest, so there is much less open marsh and heathland than on some other areas of the Forest. 

Facilities

There will be no toilet facilities at the car park or at the event. The nearest public toilets are at Crowborough Leisure Centre or at Waitrose, Crowborough. 

Contacts / Officials

planner: Richard Field

organiser: Jean Fitzgerald

Important Information

Health, safety and other important information related to events.

If you have pre-existing helath issues that you feel the organiser should know about please fill in this medical form.

Covid-19:

Before travelling to any orienteering event please make sure you are aware of and following British Orienteering guidelines. 

To ensure that we comply with these guidelines and make our events Covid secure and safe for participants and volunteers, all events will be pre-entry and pre-payment only.

During the on-line entry process, you will select your preferred start window from those available for your course. You must then make payment to reserve your start window. Please do not turn up at the event unless you have pre-entered. If you need help with the registration process please contact the event organiser.

On event day turn up for your allocated start slot

Please move away from the map box after collecting your map.

At control sites do not touch the control, and move through quickly.

Do not congregate at the Finish.

At Download please get your breath back and recover before downloading.

Saxons volunteers are very happy to help beginners understand the courses, maps and timing equipment used at our events. To get advice please contact coaching@saxons-oc.org at least 3 days before the event, or go to our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/saxons.oc and ask questions there. It may be possible to arrange for somoene to meet you before your start.

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Ticks and Lyme Disease: Ticks are common in areas where we go orienteering, more information about ticks.

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