Sligo, Wicklow and Cork for Orienteering this Weekend
| Date | Location (click on name below for map to locations) |
County | Event Type | Organising Club |
| 9th February, Saturday | Leamlara Castle Woods | Cork | Family Day | Bishopstown |
| 9th February, Saturday | Vale of Clara Nature Reserve | Wicklow | Leinster Spring Cup | Dublin University |
| 9th February, Saturday | Lough Key Forest Park | Roscommon | ‘Come-and-try-it’ | SligO |
Vale of Clara Nature Reserve
The event will be sign posted from Laragh. Please follow these signs as the other possible route from Laragh crosses a very narrow bridge.
All the usual courses will be offered.
Course Lengths:
Brown 8.0km
Blue 5.7km
Green 4.6km
Light Green 3.4km
Orange 2.9km
Yellow 2.4km
The Brown course will be available at 1:10000 and 1:15000.
1:15000 only available if you pre-enter.
There is a possibilty a Black course being added (1:15000 only), but pre-enter the Brown 1:15000 anyway and ask on the day.
There is significant climb on most courses; this will be updated soon.
The start and finish will both be 300-400m from the entrance to the car park in opposite directions, they will not be adjacent to each other.
Please use pre-entry as it makes the organisers’ job much easier on the day.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1LtdEver3MYlTH1YcWfnGgmr3rXEAVIRAuLQb1iDM2SY/viewform17th person to pre-enter will get a free biscuit.
The form will be taken down on Saturday evening.
The area is mostly runnable forest with a reasonable track network. Most of the forest is sloping, either gently or steeply.
Previous map here:
https://www.orienteering.ie/gadget/cgi-bin/reitti.cgi?act=map&id=182&kieli=
The Vale of Clara is a nature reserve, so we request that you leave no rubbish in the forest. This includes organic waste such as apple cores, orange/banana peels, tea bags etc.
Please respect this so that we can maintain a good relationship with the National Parks and Wildlife Service.
Parking will be on a forest road to the north of the forest.
Google Maps: http://goo.gl/maps/jmc1A
The event will be sign posted from Laragh. Please follow these signs as the other possible route from Laragh crosses a very narrow bridge.
All the usual courses will be offered.
Course Lengths:
Brown 8.0km
Blue 5.7km
Green 4.6km
Light Green 3.4km
Orange 2.9km
Yellow 2.4km
The Brown course will be available at 1:10000 and 1:15000.
1:15000 only available if you pre-enter.
There is a possibilty a Black course being added (1:15000 only), but pre-enter the Brown 1:15000 anyway and ask on the day.
There is significant climb on most courses; this will be updated soon.
The start and finish will both be 300-400m from the entrance to the car park in opposite directions, they will not be adjacent to each other.
Controller: Ruth LynamWe have made a request to the rain gods to calm down a bit for Sunday, but they can be somewhat temperamental. The area is quite sheltered, so even if the weather is bad it should ok in the forest.Thanks to Coillte and NPWS for permission for use of the forest, and to AJAX for the use of their map and SI equipment.