BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//6.6.4.4//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:0-632@lvo.org.uk DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240622T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240622T130000 DTSTAMP:20240622T175434Z URL:https://lvo.org.uk/allfixtures/tollymore-weekend-ni-colour-series-4/ SUMMARY:The Tollymore Festival of Orienteering - Saturday NI Colour Series 4 DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nDate\nSaturday 22 June 2024\n\n\nVenue\nSlieve Martin\n\n \nEvent Format\nNorthern Ireland Colour Series 4\n\nThis event is Day 2 of the three-day Tollymore Festival of Orienteering which includes the Warre npoint Urban race on Friday\; this NICS event on Slieve Martin on Saturday \; camping at Tollymore and a BBQ after this race on Saturday\, and a fun relay and other activities on Sunday. For full details\, see the Festival page.\n\n\nOnline Entry\n.\n\n\nSI Entries\n\n\n\nOnline Entry closes\nMon day 17 June 2024\, 11pm\n\n\nRegistration\, Start and Finish\nStart times 1100-1300.\n\nThe White\, Yellow and Orange courses will start and finish close to to registration/car park. Courses close at 3pm.\n\nOther courses will have a remote start and finish.  TD4-5 courses close 3.30pm.\n\nWalk to start from registration/parking is about a 1k plus 210m climb - allow 20 minutes. The path is good\, but it is quite steep in places. There will be no kit drop at the start\, please arrive ready to run.\n\nWalk from fi nish to download is about 3k - allow 30 minutes. The return path is a well -made gravel forest road and gently undulating down hill with an elevation loss of 50m. The remote finish has been selected to make the best use of some fantastic terrain\, not used for many years.\n\n\nPrice\nTo enter NIC S\, the price is as follows:\n\n\n\nRace Prices\nMember*\nNon-Member\n\n\n Senior (aged 21 or over)\n10\n12\n\n\nJunior or Student\n5\n6\n\n\nMaximum charge for a family**\n25\n30\n\n\n\nSociable group / family fee where al l are going round a course together – entry fee is per required number o f maps i.e. one entry = one map.\n\n*Member of BOF Clubs only. Get Annual Membership today and experience the membership benefits including the memb er rate!\n\nThere is no fee to hire an SI card if required\, but lost card s are charged at £30.\n\n\nTerrain Summary\nThis is a great area for orie nteering over varied terrain\, open hill and thick forest.\n\nIt is fairly high up\, so on a good day you will enjoy great views of the southern Mou rnes\, down over Carlingford Lough and across to the Cooley Peninsula\; bu t on a bad day you could see nothing.\n\nMap\, and Control Descriptions\n\ n First mapped 2016\, with minor updates in 2019 and Spring 2024. The 201 9 map is available on Routegadget.\n Control descriptions will be printed on the map. Loose control descriptions will be available at the Start. TD 1-3 courses will be both pictorial and textual.\n\nTerrain Notes\n\n The map features and excellent mix of fast open mountain terrain\, slower and extremely complex and very well mapped tussocky open (filled with prominen t trees\, boulders and small cliffs)\, and highly technical white / mid gr een forest.\n The 2024 map updates are primarily the addition of some new paths and the more significant areas of windblow that affect route choice . Small areas of windblow that are easily avoided may not be mapped.\n Th e slower tussocky open ground is shown as 403 (rough open) with a screen o f 407 (slow running vegetation). This can be very rough and uneven.  In m any areas the forest 406 (slow running forest) and even 408 (walk forest) may be quicker.\n Some forest ‘clearings’ are filled with impassable windblow – these are mapped using 410 (vegetation fight)\n There are ma ny 1000’s of small ditches and seasonal watercourses in the green forest areas – the majority of these are not mapped. Only the most significant are mapped.  You have been warned!\n Many cliffs and boulders in the fo rest are well encrusted with a deep layer of moss / lichen and may not be immediately identifiable as a rock feature.\n\n\n\n\nPrevious Maps/Routega dget\nThis area was last used for a NICS event on 30 October 2021. Routega dget map and courses can be found here: https://www.lvo.routegadget.co.uk/ rg2/#447\n\n\nCourse Notes\n⚪ White – 1.4km + 80m climb\, 10 controls – navigate along paths with few route choice decisions. Aimed at primary school aged newcomers.\n🟡 Yellow – 1.5km + 90m climb\, 8 controls – along paths with more route choice decisions. Appropriate for newcomer s and younger juniors with some experience.\n🟠 Orange – 1.8km + 120m climb\, 12 controls – skills needed to navigate away from paths and more route choice decisions\, some compass skills are expected. Aimed at novic e adults and improving juniors.\n🟢 Light Green – 3.7km + 60m climb\, 12 controls – this course requires confident map reading and compass ski lls.\n🟢 Short Green – 3.4km + 40m climb\, 14 controls – this course is set at the highest technical difficulty but shorter to attract those w ho may struggle with a longer physical course.\n🟢 Green – 4.4km + 50m climb\, 17 controls – technically and reasonably physically demanding c ourse.\n🔵 Blue – 6.2km + 60m climb\, 20 controls – technically and physically demanding course.\n🟤 Brown – 8.9km + 170m climb\, 30 contr ols – technical and very physically demanding course.NOTE: This event is also doubling up as the LVO Club Champs\, so if you wish to be deemed com petitive within the Championships you must pick the correct colour relatin g to your age/gender. Participants who chose to 'run up' a course will be deemed competitive in higher age categories. Participants can also choose to 'run down' and although they will not be deemed competitive for the Cha mps\, their result will still be counted in the NICS and BOF ranking.\n\n\ n\nBrown\nOpen (M18\,20\,21\,35)\nW21\, W35\n\n\nBlue\nM40\, M45\, M50\, M 55\, M60\nW18. W20\, W40\, W45\n\n\nGreen\nM16\, M65\nW50\, W55\n\n\nShort Green\nM70\, M75+\nW16\, W60\, W65\, W70\n\n\nLight Green\nM14\nW14\, W75 +\n\n\nOrange\nM12\nW12\n\n\nYellow\nM10\nW10\n\n\n\nWhite/Yellow/Orange: note there are some steep sections of path on these courses.  The courses also cross an MTB track.  The MTBs will be going slowly up-hill\, but pl ease take care and note that the MTB tracks are out  of bounds. A 1:7500 scale map will be used on these three courses.\n\nA 1:10000 scale map will be used for these courses.\n\nDespite much of the terrain being relativel y slow\, the courses (other than brown) have minimal climb and an overall height loss of around 150m which should offset the slow sections somewhat. \n\nAll TD4-5 courses cross an MTB track. This is a downhill section and i s marked out of bounds on the map – please do not run directly along the gravel 'single track' and cross with care.  If running alongside as a na vigation aid\, please keep a good lookout an stay well to one side.\n\n\nF irst Aid and Safety\nThere will be a first aid and a qualified first aider available at registration. Registration is also a safe place for lost chi ldren to wait.\n\nPlease do not come to the event if you are unwell.\n\nPl ease bring and carry any medication you might need\, especially inhalers a nd EpiPen’s.\n\nIf you come across an injured or ill person\, please sto p\, help and get further help. There will likely be qualified first aiders on the course who can stop to provide support.\n\nAll participants must r eturn to download\, whether they complete the course or not. This is to ac count for all competitors\, ensuring everyone’s safe return.\n\nCourse C losure:\n\nWhite\, Yellow and Orange courses close at 3pm. All other cours es close at 3.30pm. Controls will start to be be collected at the course c losing times. If you are still out on the course at this time return to fi nish and download immediately.\n\n\nKit requirements\nFull body cover is m andatory.\n\nA whistle (emergency alert is 6 loud blasts per minute) is ma ndatory.\n\nA waterproof jacket may also be mandatory if the organisers de cide the weather requires one\, so bring one along just in case.\n\n\nPark ing\nThe Upper ‘Cloughmore’ car park should be used (GR J195 174). W3W ///gladiators.charging.influence.  This is where the Mobile Orienteering Office (MOO) will be situated for information/download.\n\nIf you find yo urselves sitting in a carpark with a playground / Synge and Byrne café / Cloughmore Centre\, YOU ARE IN THE WRONG CARPARK! You need to keep driving up the hill through the forest\, following the one-way signs for ‘Fores t Drive’ to get to the very top carpark: https://goo.gl/maps/kWn6Koq3Y5i Qo65W7\n\nParking is charged at £5 per vehicle\, unless you have an annua l NMDCC permit.\n\n\nToilets\nPublic toilet facilities are available at th e bottom car park.\n\n\n CATEGORIES:NI Colour Series,Tollymore Weekend LOCATION:Slieve Martin\, Kilbroney Park\, Rostrevor\, Northern Ireland GEO:54.097285;-6.190468 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Kilbroney Park\, Rostrevor\ , Northern Ireland;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Slieve Martin:geo:54.097285, -6.190468 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240331T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR