Location, Parking and Assembly

Please read these instructions carefully and follow all of them, our access to the area, both for this event and any subsequent ones will depend on them being followed.

Parking and assembly are in the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.  Please do not attempt to enter by either the Main gate on the A30 London Road or the College Town gate on Yorktown Road.  The entrance is reached by turning north into Kings Ride at traffic light crossroads on the A30 London Road in Camberley.  This junction is approximately 400m east of the main gate to the camp, GR SU875608 and has a VW car dealer (Martins) and a Romans Estate Agency (currently being redeveloped) on the corners.  We have been informed that any direction signs placed at this junction will be removed (record to date is within 15 minutes of being placed) so there will be NO signs at this junction.  Continue approx 0.9km directly north up Kings Ride, bear left into Matthews Road, then turn left at the small roundabout into Dawnay Road.  Continue down Dawnay Road to a gate which will be manned GR SU870616.  At this gate your vehicle will be inspected and the fact that occupants are orienteers checked.  You may be required to show photo identification, please make sure you have this with you and your BOF membership card if you have one.  You will be issued with a vehicle pass and MUST have this on display at all times when within the camp.  Follow road signs within the camp to the parking area, please do not deviate from the signed route.  There is a strict 20 mph speed limit in the camp. 

This gate will ONLY be open to competitors from 8:15 - 12:00, all competitors MUST arrive before 12:00. 

You will exit via the main gate onto the A30, not via the route you entered, see map below (map available on downloadable details)

Parking is on tarmac car parks. There is a £1 car parking charge per car going to charity. This will be collected at the car park entrance, not at the gate.  The furthest point of parking will be no more than 500m from assembly which is adjacent to the main parking area.

Safety and Security

There are a number of ponds and lakes next to the parking and assembly areas.  It is not possible to securely tape all of these, parents/guardians are asked to keep children well away from all water.  Also no climbing on ANY military equipment.

There is an assault course next to assembly and on the route to the Start, under no circumstances should anyone attempt to climb onto or into any part of this.  If anyone is seen on this equipment they will be immediately disqualified from the competition and the likelihood is that any further events will be banned from this area.  So please respect this request, even if the equipment is tempting.

Please do not stray from the indicated driving routes, parking and assembly areas and route to the Start, all other parts of the camp are strictly out of bounds.

Solo travellers may (and are encouraged to) leave car keys at Enquiries.

Map

Descriptions

The map has been professionally resurveyed in 2010.   There are no full map legends on the map.

All courses are printed on waterproof paper.  Map sizes and scales are given in the course table.

Control descriptions will be printed on the map. White and Yellow will have written descriptions.  All other courses will have IOF descriptions. 

Loose control descriptions on waterproof paper will be available at the Starts.

Courses

Course details are given the course table.

The White course has a taped route for 100m through a forest section, and thus is not suitable for pushchairs.

Terrain

Barossa comprises runnable high-visibility forest with low bracken, and open areas with extensive path networks, together providing an excellent variety of quality orienteering terrain. The whole area is an active Military Training estate, so please do not touch any suspicious objects.  The area abounds with small pits and depressions, and has many small stretches of trench gullies. In general, only the largest pits are mapped. Some mapped pits in open areas are small slit trenches, and can be hard to spot. Pits containing brashings are normally unmapped.

Throughout the forest, there are many temporary and semi-permanent bush structures used for Army training. These range from hides, open platforms, three-sided firing platforms, to ‘bush buildings’. In the interests of consistency, all these features are not marked on the map.

The area is bisected by a large linear marsh running SW-NE, which is crossable though slow. Most courses have been planned to avoid the marsh or use obvious path crossing points. Black and Brown courses have one direct route across the marsh, with the alternative of a longer path detour.

Safety bearing, west until you reach the tarmac road and uncrossable fence, follow the road southwest until you approach the finish area.

Registration

On the day registration will open between 9.30 until 12.00. For EOD you will be given a registration form at the car park entrance. Please complete prior to going to registration.

There is limited EOD for all Regional Event Courses, subject to availability of overprinted maps. Cost is £15 for Seniors (£13 BOF members) and £4 Juniors and Students. EMIT hire £1, Free for Juniors.

Starts

Allocated start times are on the www.Fabian4.co.uk website. 

The Main Start is 700m from the car park along a paved road through a manned access gate into the forest. This manned gate will NOT OPEN until 9:30am and will close at, or just after course closing time.  So don’t go out for a walk after your run and expect it to be open on your return.  It is covered by CCTV and continuously monitored by security personnel. 

The Main Start will be used by all courses except White, Yellow and Orange, who have their own WYO Start 200m beyond the Main Start. The forest areas adjacent to both Starts are Out Of Bounds to pre-starters. The route to the Starts will be signposted from the NE corner of the car park.

Call-up will be at -3 minutes.  Loose control descriptions on waterproof paper will be available in the start lanes (Pre-Start at WYO start).

There will be a clothing dump just before the main Pre-start, bring your own bag , you will return past this point from the Finish (approx 50m).

Electronic Punching

The event is using EMIT electronic punching. If you have pre-booked an EMIT card then you need to pick this up from Registration prior to going to the Start. There will be no spare cards at the Start. A demonstration control will be available outside the enquiries tent.

It is the competitor’s responsibility to ensure that their card has been correctly activated at the Start and that they obtain a correct punch at controls, including a backup pin mark on the backup card, by placing their card flat onto the control bed.  There will be no reinstatement without evidence of punching on the backup card.

Finish

There are multiple final controls. The routes from all last controls to the Finish use obvious track routes and will not be marked until they consolidate close to the Finish.

You must punch at the Finish control, then return via the same route as on your way out back to Download.

You MUST report to Download even if you retire. Course closing time is 2:30

You will be registered as having started so to avoid an unnecessary search for a missing person, please ensure that you visit Download even if you retire from your course.

Feedback

We encourage competitors to set up their routes on Routegadget after the event, in order to provide feedback to the Planner and Controller on how the courses were executed. This includes Light Green and Orange junior courses.  Any specific feedback comments can also be sent to

Facilities

Toilets, First Aid, Squash, Ultrasport and Tom (British and Continental Catering)

Dogs

As a requirement of land permission dogs are NOT allowed, even if they remain in cars.

String Course

A free String course will be available close to the parking and assembly area

Cancellation

In the event of severe weather, information as to whether or not the event will go ahead will be placed on the BKO website www.bko.org.uk

Officials

Controller :      Neville Baker - TVOC

Planner :          Martin Wilson - BKO

Organiser :       Katy Stubbs - BKO  chairman@bko.org.uk

Course

Map Size

Scale

Length (km)

Climb (m)

Controls

Suggested Age Class

Black

A3

1:10,000

12.2

280

27

M21

Brown

A3

1:10,000

10.6

230

23

M35, M40

Short Brown

A3

1:10,000

8.4

190

21

M18, M20, M45, M50, W21, M21S

Blue

A3

1:10,000

6.9

160

20

M16, M55, M60, W35, W40, M35S, M40S,

Short Blue

A4

1:10,000

5.6

120

17

M65, W20, W18, W45, W50, M45S,

M50S, W21S,

Green

A4

1:10,000

4.8

110

15

M70,W16,W55, W60, M55S,

M60S,W35S,W40S

Short Green

A4

1:10,000

4.0

95

14

M75, W65, W70, W75, M65S, M70S,

W45S, W50S, W55S,W60S,

Light Green

A4

1:10,000

3.7

85

13

M14, W14

Orange

A4

1:10,000

3.0

80

12

M12, W12

Yellow

A4

1:7,500

2.6

60

13

M10, W10

White

A4

1:7,500

1.7

35

10