The 4TH Annual Ambleside AC Loughrigg Orienteering Score Event

Ambleside Rugby Club 6pm onwards Tuesday 14th April 2009

Instead of the club run on this night, members and friends of the club are invited to demonstrate their navigation skills over a 1 hour score Orienteering course on Loughrigg.  For those unfamiliar with the sport, a score event is where you visit as many controls (orange kites!) as you can, in any order, and return to the start in the time you have.

This year the course will again be set by Julia Laverack and, as in previous years, shouldn’t be too testing by orienteering standards. This event is also part of the club championship.

The rugby club will be open from 6pm for changing then you will need to mark up your map there then tackle the first navigational challenge of making your way to the start at the cattle grid at bottom of main track up Loughrigg.

• You can start any time between 6.30 and 7.15
• There will be 16 controls and the idea is to visit as many as you can in 1 hour in any order
• You get 10 points for each control you visit
• You will lose 5 points for each minute that you are late over 1 hour
• You will need a watch, compass, whistle and 50p for a map

When you finish, the rugby club will be open for showers and soup and cake. If anyone can help out with the food side of things, either making or serving, then let me know

Hopefully the bar will be open too so you can analyse how many times you got lost in true geeky orienteering fashion

See you there

Dan