LVO are hosting the second of this year’s Colour Series at Woodburn Forest, northwest of Carrickfergus.
The assembly and car parking will be adjacent to Woodburn Presbyterian Church, 92 Woodburn Road, Carrickfergus, BT38 9AB. Follow the Woodburn Road from Carrickfergus or the Seskin Road from Straid.
Registration is from 11.00. Start times are from 11.30 to 13.00 but remember the AGM starts at 2.30pm.
Toilets will be available in the church hall. The LVO AGM will be held in the church hall following the event, at 14.30. Tea and coffee will be available.
Start/Finish
These are beside each other some 200m from the car park and assembly.
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Terrain notes
The map, which is at a scale of 1:10000 with 5m contour interval, was surveyed by Bill Simpson in August 2015 and updated by him in March 2016 and February 2017.
The forest surrounds a large reservoir and consists of large areas of mainly Sitka Spruce plantation with some smaller patches of deciduous wood. There are numerous ditches and earthbanks throughout and several areas of windblown. Courses have been planned to make best use of the runnable areas of forest but a few route choices, on the longer courses, may give options to cross rough open, parts of which have been recently planted. There is a good network of forest roads throughout. There are also many motorcycle tracks which are often muddy and wet with lying water. Since these tracks vary in use not all are mapped. Some areas to the south have not been used for some time but will feature on the longer courses.
Courses ( subject to final controlling )
White Combined with yellow
Yellow 2.0km. 35m. 8 controls
Orange 3.2km. 45m. 13 controls
Long Orange 3.8km. 55m. 12 controls
Light Green 3.7km 65m. 13 controls
Green 5.0km. 80m. 18 controls
Blue 6.4km. 95m. 19 controls
Brown 8.2km. 110m. 27 controls
Entry Fees
Members Senior £8 Junior £4 Unwaged £6 Family £20
Non-members Senior £10 Junior £5 Unwaged £8 Family £25