We have got 60 pre-entries and plenty of spare maps so you are welcome to enter on the day before 9.30. You will also get free entry into the show afterwards.

Don’t forget your camera if you want to take part in the photo competition

Malham Show Photo Competition

Sorry about the link in the previous article which takes you to the Malham flier. Please find the update flier here Dalby Flier

Please print it and bring it with you on Monday so that you pay the reduced toll charge of £4. We have got 65 pre-entries so please register by Thursday midnight so that Jens prints enough maps. Please let me know if you would be able to collect a few controls afterwards

The seventh league of 2016 is in Dalby Forest on Monday 29 August – blank map now available below.

Event Centre
GR 926 813 Adderstone Feld, Dalby Forest, Pickering
Use the forest toll road, 3 miles north of Thornton-le-Dale then  follow the White Rose signs through the forest for 5 miles  Please try to arrive before 12am as orienteers will be leaving FACILITIES Parking, Camping, Registration, refreshments and toilets at the Eborienteers White Rose weekend

REGISTER  11.30 – 12.45
STARTS 12.00 – 13.00

Details #07 – Dalby Flier

Here’s the blank map for Malham next weekend (lets hope for better weather than this weekend’s forecast).

Event Centre
GR900627 Malham Show Ground, Malham village BD23 4DA
6 miles north of the A65 at Gargrave

REGISTER  8.30 – 10.00
STARTS 9.00 – 10.00

Details #06 – Malham Flier

Here are a couple more pics from the Moors Marathon courtesy of Adi Gossage and Jill McGee (including the annoyingly hard final climb of the day!)

Please send any others here and I’ll upload asap.

Here are a few photo’s from last weekend’s Moors Marathon. If you have any of your own you’d like to add to the gallery please send them to nymbo.events@gmail.com.

Don’t forget to add any comments about either of last weekends events too!

Wykeham & Broxa Organiser’s Comments

Thanks to Jeff Harris for an excellent course in these 2 mature forests separated by the steep sided Derwent Valley. The wet winter and spring followed by a mild, damp summer meant that the vegetation had grown vigorously so some of the tracks were quite overgrown so that I can still feel the effects of the thistles and nettles. Also, most of the smaller tracks were soft so the going was tougher than usual. However, none of this stopped Graham Tibbot from visiting all bar one of the controls!!

Thanks as ever to Jens for another excellent map, Geoff Moorhouse, Karen Blackburn and John Dixon for helping on the day and Tim Evans, Edwyn Oliver-Evans, Adrian Parker, Michael Brough, Dave Evans and Graham Tibbot who collected the controls after they had finished.

Congratulations to Graham Tibbott and the other leaders were Andrew Windrum M40, Mark Rowley M50, Roger de Faye M60, Sheila Pearce W40, Jill Ellison W50, Clare de Faye W60, Angela & Tony Brand Barker X50 and Chris & Roy Partington (Gen). You can follow their routes using the splits file and course map on the NYMBO site.

I enjoyed my ride despite the mud and nettles but just stayed in Wykeham Forest so that I didn’t have the dubious pleasure of the byway at Thompson’s Stepping Stones.

The next NYMBO events are on the August Bank Holiday weekend at Malham and Dalby. On Saturday, 27^th August, Geoff Moorhouse and I have planned a course based on the best of the controls used over the last 6 years. On Monday, 29^th August you can sample Dave Lloyd’s excellent course in Dalby Forest which is also part of the Eborienteers White Rose weekend.

Hope to see you at another event soon

Steve

You’ll find the results and splits from Saturday’s event here.

The full report should follow tomorrow, but in the meantime, here’s a reminder that events at this time of year are a constant battle between rider and the undergrowth – thistles on the bridleway between controls 46 and 36.

Here is the map for Sunday. No need to print it out as you will get your own copy on Sunday morning and riders on the 2 shorter courses will get a larger scale copy.

Here are the route descriptions and paper copies will be given out at registration. There have been 2 changes to the 3 long courses in Sneaton Forest and south of Grosmont.

2016 Marathon route

There will be refreshments available at checkpoints 2,3 and 4. We have got 44 entries so I have ordered another 18 commemorative mugs so there are still 10 spare for online entries tonight and any late entries on Sunday. Let’s hope the weather stays dry for the next 4 days. It’s a great area so I hope to see you there.