Report
Thanks to Sion Matthews for this report.
There was a good turn up of entries for the Crimbo Limbo 2022 Nav Run where Lee went and put the symbols out an hour ahead of the crews, whilst Sion signed on everyone on and gave them their packs. No rough roads were used although some were flooded from the recent heavy rain.
Starting in the California Hotel, Brynteg, the route was divided into 3 sections, using grid references and four Not As Maps (NAMs).
Section 1 - Brynteg to Parys mountain. Fairly straight forward start, going through Maenaddwyn, taking in NAM1, Capel Parc up towards NAM2 (windfarm), then into the Parys Mountain car park NAM3 which had 4 symbols, then cutting across to the A5025 for section 2.
Section 2 - Parys Mountain to Rhos Lligwy used NAM4 near Llanellian, looping around the classic Nebo area, heading towards Llaneuddog where a few mapped (triangles/laybys) caught out some crews, with a small loop ending at the bottom of Mynydd Bodafon.
Section 3 - Rhos Lligwy to Brynteg was the trickiest of the sections, again catching crews out. The Llanallgo layby was very flooded, along with some hard to find whites in Marian Glas before heading towards Benllech via Tynygongl where there was a hard to find white/housing estate in Benllech which lead them towards the Redwarf Bay loop, then cut across Llanbedrgoch with a final loop around Tynygongl to the finish back where it all began.
There were 80 points available. 1st was Aron Evans and Tom Lindstrom who missed just one sneaky symbol, an “N” placed opposite an easy “6” near Llaneilian which was only spotted by two crews including Wil and Rhian who finished second. A great win for this crew who only just got through the Llanallgo flooded layby, with the BMW misfiring afterwards. Well done.
2nd was Will Hughes and Rhian Hughes who missed the Llanallgo layby so missed 2 symbols, and they also wrote down two NAM symbols in the wrong order. 3rd and final step on the podium fell to Clare Hookham and Caron Thomas. They missed the “Cymru” in the smaller car park on top of Mynydd Paris, and wrote down two symbols in the wrong order. Clare didn’t fancy taking the Hyundai I20 through the flooded Llanallgo layby so made Caron walk/swim through it. In 4th was the son/father team of Iwan and John Evans who missed the “Cymru” in the small Paris carpark, along with a couple of the sneakier symbols along the route including that “N”. 5th was Osian Evans and Liam Hughes who had a few errors including writing symbols in the wrong sections in the beginning, but got better as they progressed.
6th Tomos Parry and Tomos Owen also had a few errors like writing symbols in the wrong sections, missed a few laybys in section 2 which cost a few places. 7th had Dion Rowlands and Cory Thomas do a perfect section 1, but missed all the laybys in section 2 around City Dulas. 8th saw Gareth Flynn and Tomos Williams miss a few sneaky ones, but wrote down the two costly duds which meant 2 points deducted…each. 9th Iwan Jones, Liam Jones and Iago Edwards had a mixture of missing symbols in NAMs and missing some laybys, of which there were many.
Rounding out the top 10 was Ian Gray and Callum Jones who missed most the NAMs and also the not-so-easy to find Marianglas white. 11th were Gill Clarke and Paul Clarke who also wrote both duds down which were placed on “B” (brown roads) which should not be recorded. They also missed the Paris Mountain Car park (4 symbols) along with missing the odd one along the way. And finally, in 12th position weere Mike Roberts and Jamie Williams who missed Paris Mountain Car Park completely. They also failed to find the tricky Marianglas white, along with missing the odd one along the way. Congratulations to Aron and Tom on winning the Crimbo Limbo Navigation Run 2022. Nice to see new faces coming into the sport as well as the regulars.
Thanks to Sion Matthews and Lee Matthews for organising the event and to the California Inn for the facilities.
RESULTS:
1st. Aron Evans / Tom Lindstrom ( BMW E36) ....... 79 points.
2nd. Will Hughes / Rhian Hughes (VW Golf) ....... 77 pts.
3rd. Clare Hookham / Caron Thomas (Hyundai I20) ....... 76 pts.
4th. Iwan Evans / John Evans (Ford Focus) ....... 75 pts.
5th. Osian Evans / Liam Hughes (Mitsibushi L200) ....... 73½ pts.
6th. Tomos Parry / Tomos Owen (VW Tiguan) ....... 72½ pts.
7th. Dion Rowlands / Cory Thomas (Transit Custom) ....... 72 pts.
8th. Gareth Flynn / Tom Williams (VW Golf) ....... 70 pts.
9th. Iwan Jones / Liam Jones / Iago Edwards Ford Fiesta) ....... 69½ pts.
10th. Ian Gray / Callum Jones (Ford Puma) ....... 63 pts.
11th. Gill Clarke / Paul Clarke (Nissan Qashqai) ....... 61 pts.
12th. Mike Davies / Jamie Williams (Honda Civic) ....... 57 pts.
Information
This will be the third round in the series for Duncan's Romer, held on Thursday, 29th December 2022. It is hoped that three more rounds are to be arranged and dates will be published as soon as they are available. This being the case, four scores from six will count towards the award.
Navigation Runs are ideal for learning to plot a route and read a map, and provide good practice for anyone aspiring to compete in a road rally anytime soon. The event is again organised by Sion Matthews.
The start venue is the California Hotel, Brynteg, LL78 8JQ - Ordnance Survey map 114 (Anglesey/Ynys Môn), reference 495 825¼. what3words location = shiny.ledge.shifters.
Sign on and route handouts at 19.00 hours. Finish at 22.00 hours.
You will require the usual navigation aids of poti, romer, pen/pencil, etc., and more information, including start time, to be provided soon.
Drivers and navigators need a valid club membership, expiring 31st October 2023. Renew or join at Membership Application
