Beer Trail (NOW CLOSED!)

27 January: Beer Trail is CLOSED. The missing control has gone AWOL again so unfortunately the trail will close a few days early.
Many thanks to the Rennies for their hard graft in setting up the trail and keep it going.
 

Beer Trail 2023: 
Opens Sunday 17th December, closes end of January 2023.
Usual format – go to the first checkpoint (see below) where you’ll find a stake with the next grid reference. Carry on until you get to the beer & chocolate. There's a visitor book in the cache to sign and comment when you have found it.

SAFETY:
This event is not an official British Orienteering event, and therefore BOF insurance does not cover you.
Leave plenty of daylight and carry a decent torch.
Courses go high into the Borrowdale Fells so go equipped for a mountain journey. “This is dangerous country in mist.” (A.Wainwright).

WE DON’T KNOW YOU’RE OUT THERE - YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY

Maps:
This year’s Beer Trail uses a hybrid map combining a new orienteering map by Roger Thomas, merged with OS maps prepared by Pete Nelson.

The grid references will work on a OS/Harveys map, but some of the features are not on the map (they’re obviously there on the ground though!).

The full OS/Harveys map should be taken as well, for emergency routes off the fell.

Please download the 2 specially prepared maps:  NE Sheet HERE  

                                                                          SW Sheet HERE

                                                                          Copy of Details HERE

Start control (Both courses): NY 2648 1274 (Gate, south side)

Please leave the stash (look for two black bin bags stuffed with goodies) as you find it and take away litter. If the goodies are running low, let us know.

Note: Please don’t give the game away by putting the whole of your route on Strava or similar. The location of the cache is a secret until you’ve put the effort in. 

Thanks Jamie