OK Nuts 2024 – Hankley Common
South London Orienteers invites you to run on Hankley Common on Sunday 10th November 2024. We are putting on a National and South East League event, our annual OK Nuts Trophy. The OK Nuts is our top forest orienteering race of the year.
This year the event is also being held in memory of Chris Morris, a founder of SLOW, who passed away earlier this year. Chris Morris – a Tribute .
Trophies
There are four OK Nuts Trophies.
- Men: Black
- Women: Brown
- M16: Blue
- W16: Short Blue
Terrain
Hankley Common is south-west of Guildford.
The Common is an Army Land area with a mixture of fast low cut heather (after fires last year), thicker heather in the southern half and a mixture of largely fast running forest areas over a contoured fast runnable area. It was last used by us in 2019 for the OK Nuts Trophy.
OK Nuts 2019 Routegadget (A4 maps – there is a separate record for the longer courses.)
The map was produced in 2019 by Dave Peel using LIDAR data and has been updated by Roger Maher in 2023. The scale for all courses is 1:10,000 with a contour interval of 5m.
The land is often used for filming. It was the historic site of James Bond’s family home, Skyfall Lodge. See, for example, https://www.flickr.com/photos/vauxhalluk/6987773697/in/dateposted/
Entries
Please ensure you familiarise yourself with the British Orienteering Participant Code of Conduct which apply to this event.
Start times are between 10:00 and 12:00. Select your time when entering. Courses close at 14:30 – you must have returned to assembly and downloaded by then.
Enter at SiEntries. Entries are now open. Subject to map availability, online entries will be available until 11:45 on race day. (When we last held the OK Nuts at Hankley Common entries for blue and green courses sold out before the day, other courses remained available.)
Fees
Fees are a little higher than often, reflecting the land access charges.
If you do not have your own timing card, SIAC hire is £2 for Seniors and Young Adults, and free for Juniors.
We encourage non-members to join British Orienteering some days prior to entering the event.
| Category | From opening | From 28/10/2024 | From 04/11/2024 |
| Senior – Member | £16.00 | £18.00 | £20.00 |
| Senior – Non Member | £18.00 | £20.00 | £22.00 |
| Young Adult (21-25) – Member | £10.00 | £11.00 | £12.00 |
| Young Adult (21-25) – Non Member | £12.00 | £13.00 | £14.00 |
| Junior – Member | £6.00 | £7.00 | £8.00 |
| Junior – Non-Member | £6.00 | £7.00 | £8.00 |
No dogs
Under the terms of our licence for use of the area, this is a NO DOGS event.
Courses
The following courses are being provided (classes are for the South East League).
We hope there’s a suitable challenge for everyone from newcomer to expert and all the family.
| Course | Length* | Climb* | No of controls* | Men’s classes | Women’s classes |
| Black | 13.5 km | 410 m | 22 | M21 | |
| Brown | 11.3 km | 315 m | 22 | M20; M35; M40 | W21 |
| Short Brown | 9.4 km | 280 m | 20 | M18; M45; M50 | W20; W35 |
| Blue | 7.6 km | 250 m | 19 | M16; M55; M60 | W18; W40; W45 |
| Short Blue | 6.0 km | 185 m | 14 | M65; M70 | W16; W50; W55 |
| Green | 5.3 km | 170 m | 12 | M75 | W60; W65 |
| Short Green | 4.3 km | 145 m | 13 | M80 | W70 |
| Very Short Green | 3.6 km | 80 m | 12 | M85; M90 | W75; W80; W85; W90 |
| Light Green | 4.1 km | 140 m | 12 | M14 | W14 |
| Orange | 3.2 km | 75 m | 7 | M12 | W12 |
| Yellow | 2.5 km | 60 m | 10 | M10 | W10 |
| White | 1.7 km | 30 m | 8 |
* Subject to final controlling
| Location | Hankley Common |
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| Address | |
| Latitude/longitude | 51.1616, -0.7241 |
| OS grid reference | SU893410 |
| Maps | Google Maps, OpenStreetMap |
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Assembly
SIAC hire and download are in the assembly area adjacent to car parking.
Starts are approximately 200m from assembly, and the finish is approximately 300m away.
Officials
Organiser: Gordon Parker (SLOW)
Planner: Andy Jones (SLOW)
Controller: Sue Crickmore (Southdowns Orienteers)
Risks, Your Information
All competitors take part at their own risk.
The personal data you give will be used by the event organisers and their agents only for the purpose of processing and publishing the event
entries and results, for conducting safety checks and to validate British Orienteering insurance cover. The races are run under the rules and guidelines of, and sanctioned by, British Orienteering.
Results will be published on SIEntries, the SLOW and British Orienteering websites, Winsplits and Routegadget..
