Benmore Gardens, Winter Event 2011, 15th Jan 11

Nearest town:

Dunoon

Notes:

There is an excellent cafe / tea room next to the car park that does meals as well as cakes.

If you plan to attend it would be helpful if you could email us with the number of people coming (by Thursday evening), this helps us with map printing and notifying the cafe of likely numbers.

Directions:

Gardens car park adjacent to the A815 approximately 5 miles north of Dunoon.
Please park on the left hand side of the car park as you enter.

OS Grid Ref. NS 140857
Latitude: 56.02664
Longitude: -4.9816131
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Terrain:

Botanical Gardens with intricate path network

Courses:

It will be a Score course with a time limit of 45 mins for adults, 30 mins for juniors.
Visit as many controls as possible in the time allowed.

Start times:

From 11:30 to 1pm. Courses close 1:45pm.

Entry Fees:

Senior £3 (£2 extra for adult non members), Junior £2

Planner/Organiser:

Organiser/planner: Paul Frost
Controller: Lynne Walker

Organizing club:

EckO

 

Features of EckO events

SPORTident (SI) electronic punching is always used.

Maps are pre-marked and printed on waterproof paper.

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Previous event: New Year Deflab Fun Run 2011

Next event: Condes workshop & Event Safety Training

Other events

Sat Feb 18, EckO Winter training, Benmore cancelled

Sun Feb 19, CompassSport Trophy Scottish heat, Pitlochry

Sat Mar 3, Scottish Sprint Champs, St. Andrews

Sat Mar 17, Clyde event, Coille Nathais

Sun Mar 18, EckO SOL, Torinturk west

Sat Mar 24, EckO Training weekend

Fri Apr 6, JK, Perthshire

Sun Apr 15, SOL, Solway

Sat May 5, British Champs, Lake District

Fri May 18, OLI Schools

Sat Jun 2, Scottish Champs, Deeside

Sun Jul 28, Scottish 6-Days, Moray 2013

 

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Explanation of Course Colours

Yellow = Easy controls on paths with some controls just off paths, compass not essential.

Orange = Moderate with most controls just off paths or line features, compass recommended.

Light Green = More technical than Orange but not as hard as Green.

Green = Technical with most controls NOT on paths or line features.

Blue = Same as Green but longer (5km +).

Control Description Quiz

Do you understand these symbols?

Control symbols

We will be using these descriptions for all courses from now on, so you need to understand them.

Have a look at this website: IOF Quiz
It has a quiz on the control description symbols. It is very well laid out with an option to time your answers.