What night events?

[Glucosamine]

Suggestion to follow clubnights with a night event series? Where weeknight events previously fell victim to a clubnight initiative, this seems to have a certain circularity ...

[SeanC]

Did any club abandon mid-week events for club nights? The ones I'm aware of were in addition to week day events, or in clubs where there were none.

[mikey]

Part of the problem is that some club nights include 'races' but no one knows about them.

[charles2]

WAOC have clubnights - we do benefit from being able to meet in and around Cambridge jointly with the university club which keeps numbers up.
Every three or four weeks the club night evening is a race (low key).

[Gnitworp]

TVOC NIGHT EVENT Saturday 25th January 2014
BIG WOOD (near Watford)
SUPERB NIGHT ORIENTEERING TERRAIN
Curtain-raiser for the nearby Southern Championships on the Sunday. Why not combine the two?
Easy courses (Yellow/Orange) available for novice night orienteers

Car Park Location: Oxhey Playing Fields / Pavillion Pub Car Park Grid Ref TQ114940
Directions: By Road: At the junction of A4125 / B4542 1.5 miles south of Watford turn south east into Brookdene Avenue.
After 0.5 miles turn right into Green Lane signed to Pavillion Pub and Oxhey Playing Fields (O sign).
By Rail: 0.7 miles from Carpenders Park Station (London Overground) 20 min intervals both ways:
Turn left in station subway to South Oxhey and turn right off Station Approach onto Prestwick Road.
After 0.5 miles turn left into Green Lane which leads to the Pavillion Pub.
Registration: 5.30 pm – 6.30 pm inside the Pavillion Pub
Starts: 5.45 pm – 6.45 pm (courses close 8.00pm)
Cost: £5 Adults (reduced to £4 for TVOC/BOF members) £2 Children and Students
Emit Electronic Punching will be used (no supplement for card)
Competition Area A former golf course with the old fairways kept mown and pockets of
intricately contoured woodland (quarries, bomb craters, tees, bunkers and greens).
Map: 1:5000 (2.5m contours) revised Jan 2013 by Jim Prowting Overprinted courses / waterproof
Course Details: The same courses as for the Saturday Series Event last February will be used as follows:
Ochre (daylight Yellow 2.0km) Maroon (daylight Orange 2.7 km)
Olive (daylight Light Green 3.5km) Navy (daylight Green 4.6 km)
Facilities: Toilets in the pub and good food available
Planner/Organiser: Jim Prowting 01923 236881 or cvdesign@globalnet.co.uk

[kedge]

Meanwhile, down in Dorset (or to be more correct, just across the Avon in Hampshire), WIM have been asked by the landowners (NT) not to hold the Night League course that was to follow our Rockford Common Schools League/Informal on Feb 1st because

... the byelaws require visitors to depart by sunset.

[AndyC]

Do they have "Bat Walks" or similar?

[kedge]

I don't know about bat walks.

But I do know that we've held Night events on the area previously, although whether the last of those was after the NT took over ownership I couldn't be sure.

[Glucosamine]

Meanwhile, down in Dorset (or to be more correct, just across the Avon in Hampshire), WIM have been asked by the landowners (NT) not to hold the Night League course that was to follow our Rockford Common Schools League/Informal on Feb 1st because

... the byelaws require visitors to depart by sunset.

Doesn't specific permission generally trump general access under bylaws? For comparison, a public right of way should trump access under bylaws.

[kedge]

...Doesn't specific permission generally trump general access under bylaws?

Very possibly. But in our case, the local NT have only ended up giving us permission for our daylight event, and not the night event, giving the bylaws as their reason.

Pemissions were late arriving, because the NT needed to run things past Natural England as well.

Its possible that we might have managed to overturn the decision with a bit of arguing, but this close to the event (Feb 1st) and with other night events the previous Thursday and the following Monday, there seemed no point in rocking the boat and damaging our currently excellent relations with the NT.

[Gnitworp]

I'll take advantage of the 'bump'. Don't miss a quality night event on Saturday night on an old golf course with pockets of woodland between the fairways with a great deal of interesting contour detail in them (bunkers, quarries, diggings and bomb craters). Ideal practice event for BNOC. Easy access from London Overground Station. See full details six posts up.

[MIE]

Reminder that the first closing date for the British Nights (and the following day's UKOL
race) is on 8th February. The venue, Pippingford Park, has been used for the 2004 Harvester and JK2008. Even the entry fee is reasonable
Find the info. on http://www.mvoc.org .

(end of plug)

[SeanC]

Tonight's Northern Night Champs featured a 1:4000 sprint section for the last 700 metres or so around an outdoor education centre. What a brilliant idea. The change in scale and technique right at the end of the course made it really challenging. *

*I shouldn't be smiling as I messed it up completely.

[Big Jon]

Next Wednesday (5th Feb) best night event of the year happening at Muir of Dinnet (west of Aboyne) in Deeside.
Details at: http://www.marocscotland.org.uk/home/fixtures/
after Sunday's event.

New area, never before used for an event - fantastic mixture of morrain and detailed slopes in a mix of mature plantation and natural birch/pine woodland.