Our July events on the weekend 19th and 20th July form part of the BMBO Championship as well as the 2025 NYMBO League.

Saturday is a longer 5 hour event – enter here

Sunday is a 3 hour event – enter here

We are using Ivy Bank campsite in Kirkby Malzeard as the event centre; this can accommodate tents, caravans, and motorhomes. We have a dedicated area at a special reduced rate – however, unfortunately electric hook-up isn’t available in this area.  The site also has and a Double Decker bus as accommodation, fire pits and hot tubs to hire. Facilities are good with toilets, showers, cafe/bar.
Please book direct with the site if you wish to stay:

1. categories select events
2. units select bike orienteers
3. proceed to choose arrival date number of nights
4. available unit select any pitch; the cost should come up as £10 per night per person.

The village has a pub, fish and chip shop, butchers and general store; nearby Grewelthorpe’s pub The Crown is recommended for food. There will be a marquee for registration and socialising post ride.

Provisional results here, please check and make sure your score is correct. You can revise any missing controls using the HITMO function in MapRun (see FAQ page for details)

Thanks to John Dixon for planning a great course and to the various people who helped out on the day.

Here’s Johns report:

“Almost 50 riders turned up for a challenging ride in glorious sunshine. 

The trails were all dry but perhaps a bit more overgrown than when I first visited in April. 

I try to spread the controls so the better riders have to go the extra mile/km to mop up the smaller values. This may be reflected in the close spread of high scores, which, in the absence of some of those better riders, were quite modest, with no-one cracking 400. It may also be the fact that there was a lot of climbing to deal with!

Everyone seemed to have enjoyed the day, despite some tales of woe – punctures, getting lost, maprun not working, the usual carry on.

It was a busy day at High Paradise with a 70th Birthday party in progress, started on Friday afternoon and folk staying until Sunday, plus the regular visitors. Despite the workload HP looked after everyone with the usual good food and smiles. (Just remember, access is horse, bicycle or foot under normal circumstances).

Thanks to the helpers and to everyone who entered the event, see you at the next one?”

And the next event is the weekend at Kirkby Malzeard on July 19 & 20, entry on BMBO, details to follow.

Still time to get your online entry in for Saturday’s event at High Paradise Farm.

Given the forecast, I’m not sure that Tim needs to print the maps on waterproof paper, but entry by midnight tomorrow night will guarantee you a printed, colour map!!

Parking is in the field behind the cafe (see picture below) along with the Start and Finish locations as marked.

Please make sure you’ve seen the previous post with the blank map and the update on emergency procedures.

We will be using MapRun Tracking at this event to see if this is helpful from an event safety perspective. As always, please make sure your phone is fully charged and you’ve downloaded the course beforehand. You can turn off the event tracking if you wish. This feature isn’t supported for riders using Garmin MapRun-G (watches can only receive the GPS location, not broadcast it).

The MapRun course is ready for download at the usual location:
select event / UK / North Yorkshire / NYMBO / Summer 25 /

The road to High Paradise Farm from Boltby up Sneck Yate Bank isn’t visible on the blank course map, so here’s the extract from the previous map for reference. Take care driving along the single road as the farm track is a bit uneven.

Our next event is on Saturday 21st June when we make a return trip to Paradise Farm near Boltby for the excellent tracks around the edge of the of the North York Moors. John Dixon has been in charge of planning for this one and the event centre has it’s excellent cafe for the end of your ride.

Online entry can be found here – don’t forget that you get 40% off adult entries before midnight on Monday 16th before online entry closes on Thursday 19th. Entry on the day should be available but a waterproof map is not guaranteed.

3 hour course, Registration 0915 -1015, starts from 0930 until 1030.

EMERGENCY PROCEDURES

You may be aware that one of our riders had a serious accident at the Bishop Wilton event – he’s making a good recovery. Thankfully, such incidents are very rare at our events. However, it gives us the opportunity to review how we manage them.

1. Improved registration – we are going to make sure that everyone checks their contact details at sign-in and stores the event phone numbers in their phone for easy access. We’re also going to improve the emergency contacts details on the printed map.
2. Mandatory kit – we require all riders to carry an emergency foil blanket and orange emergency ‘perry’ whistle. This aligns with the BMBO kit list. In addition to the compulsory helmet, riders should also carry a small first aid kit (contents at riders discretion).

We’re reviewing a couple of other options as well, but it’s essential that we have procedures that we can operate consistently and effectively for all events and for all riders. For example, riders with a Garmin that has emergency alerts capability are encouraged to set that up and include the event phone number where possible but we can’t make that compulsory!