Kings Garn Gutter

Event details

Kings Garn Gutter is an orienteering event in the New Forest on Sunday 11th January. The area used is Long Beech, Kings Garn Gutter and Salisbury Trench Inclosures. The event counts towards the South Central Orienteering League and is the fourth SCOL event of the season. Entries are limited to 250 and 41 places were entered at the time of the listing. Parking is on the hardstanding areas of Ocknell Campsite (grid SU253120, postcode SO43 7HH). Competitors will need to cross a minor road to reach the start; the road crossing will not be manned and parents are asked to take responsibility for children crossing the road. Car sharing is available.

Courses and facilities

Courses cover runnable forest with paths and rides, fenced inclosures and streams; one steep-sided stream in the north has easier nearby crossing points. The Coalmeer Gutter stream in the south is out of bounds except at two defined crossing paths. Maps are scale 1:10,000 with 5 m contours, updated in Autumn 2024. Control descriptions are printed on the map; White and Yellow use text descriptions, others use IOF symbols. The event uses SI dibber timing; hire dibbers are available and lost dibbers are chargeable. Facilities at the event centre include portable toilets, catering from a food wagon and a clothing dump roughly 300 m from the start and 400 m from the finish.

Courses include: Visit the organization's website for the most recent information.

• Brown 10.3 km - experienced orienteers only
• Blue 6.4 km - experienced orienteers only
• Green 4.6 km - experienced orienteers only
• Short Green 4.0 km - experienced orienteers only
• Light Green 3.6 km - for improving orienteers
• Orange 3.3 km - novice, mostly on paths
• Yellow 2.7 km - novice, all on paths
• White 1.7 km - novice, all on paths