A reminder to those of you intending to compete at Wimborne Orienteers' 49th running of our annual Boxing Day Canter, but who have yet to enter.
This year, we have not been given permission by the Forestry Commission to park on the forest roads at Moors Valley Country Park as has been customary. Instead, we are parking in part of the main car park.
The Country Park authorities have very generously allowed us to park there for free, provided that they have your car reg numbers entered on their parking system before Christmas. Boxing Day is a very busy time for them, particularly if the weather is OK (currently the forecast is good) and they can't guarantee that on the day arrivals will get the free parking.
So whilst pre-entry on Fabian4 will stay open until 21.00 on Christmas Day, and whilst there will be some EoD, we can't guarantee free parking to anyone entering after 08.30 on Monday morning Dec 23rd, when the car reg numbers have to be submitted to the Country Park. Please get your entries in earlier this year.
WIM Boxing Day Canter parking, a reminder
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Gosh, there is life left in Nopesport...
10 days since last post... gonna be boring next year if that continues.
10 days since last post... gonna be boring next year if that continues.
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FC refusal to allow parking on forest tracks seems to bececoming standard practice. The same applied recently in the Forest of Dean. Where tracks are firm surface it seems counter-productive to me as it just puts added pressure on the official public carparks.
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King Penguin wrote:FC refusal to allow parking on forest tracks seems to bececoming standard practice. The same applied recently in the Forest of Dean. Where tracks are firm surface it seems counter-productive to me as it just puts added pressure on the official public carparks.
Yes, sadly similar position here in Kent. Fortunately, for our Kent Orienteering Weekend event in March at King's Wood (Forestry England), we have plenty of parking at Chilham Castle -
https://www.saxons-oc.org/documents/201 ... r_2020.pdf
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Re: WIM Boxing Day Canter parking, a reminder
King Penguin wrote:FC refusal to allow parking on forest tracks seems to bececoming standard practice. The same applied recently in the Forest of Dean. Where tracks are firm surface it seems counter-productive to me as it just puts added pressure on the official public carparks.
I have yet to discover the reason for this approach that the Forestry Commission are taking; anybody got a clearer picture?
It seems to relate to parking rather than driving along the tracks so is it a health and safety matter of trees falling on parked cars?
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Re: WIM Boxing Day Canter parking, a reminder
I believe the reason given by the Forest of Dean forestry area to NGOC and BOK when they stopped them linear parking on forest roads was they feared environmental damage to the roadside verges. That policy now seems to be becoming standard practice.
As for my reminder to people on Nopesport and the WIM Facebook page to get their entries to the Boxing Day Canter in by last night seems to have worked. Entries doubled.
But there are still more entering today and hoping to get the free parking. I suspect they may be disappointed.
As for my reminder to people on Nopesport and the WIM Facebook page to get their entries to the Boxing Day Canter in by last night seems to have worked. Entries doubled.
But there are still more entering today and hoping to get the free parking. I suspect they may be disappointed.
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