Any Which Way You Can
Not a movie starring Clint Eastwood and an orang utan
15 or 9 miles of multi-terrain self-nav
at 9:30 am on Sunday 22nd January, 2012
from Seaton Scout Hut, Scalwell Lane
ARC permit 12/47
Every Which Way But Loose
Not another movie with Clint and an ape
14 or 8 miles of multi-terrain self-nav
at 9:30 am on Sunday 22nd July, 2012
Umborne Village Hall near Axminster
ARC permit 12/46
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Veggie pasties kindly donated by Find your own way between checkpoints!
Answer numeric questions at each checkpoint then add them together!
Very low-key ... no markings, no marshals, no support!
Run whichever way you like - clockwise or clockunwise!
Dirt cheap entry fee of a mere fiver (seven quid if unattached)!
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Minimum age 17. Entries accepted on the day if the limit of 200 runners hasn't been reached but may not get any food.
Start time slots every 15 minutes to avoid the chaos of previous events. Please indicate your expected start time on your entry form.
The list of checkpoints with grid refs is below. You can visit them in either direction. Choose the quickest, nicest, easiest or any other route you want as long as it's on public rights of way. There's not much between the obvious ones and this is meant to be fun.
Question sheets will be given out at the start so you can't cheat and find the answers beforehand!
AWWYC
You can download the entry form and checkpoint map.
The long route visits all the checkpoints apart from 2a, the short route goes from 2 to 2a and then on to 8. You can run either way round.
The nicest route from 2 to 2a is down the right part of the track from the bend ignoring proper turns to left and right. There is only one point after about ¾m where the track just splits with both forks appearing to be "straight on" and you want the left, rising one. After another ¼m you reach a broken wooden gate across the track which you pass through then immediately turn left up a small path which takes you up to the stile at the edge of the wood. (This path is part of the Bovey Down Lightime route.)
| Point | Grid ref | Location |
| 0 | 245909 | Seaton scout hall |
| 1 | 237925 | Holyford (footbridge) |
| 2 | 220928 | Morganhayes Wood (track bend) |
| 2a | 210916 | Bovey Down (stile) |
| 3 | 205929 | Southleigh Hill (path junction) |
| 4 | 189923 | Blackberry Camp (car park) |
| 5 | 191912 | A3052 (gateway) |
| 193901 | Water at Beckham Cottage ("Bickham" on the OS map) | |
| 6 | 191894 | Hole House (stile above Grizzly bog) |
| 7 | 202886 | Branscombe (grassy triangle) |
| 8 | 230891 | Beer (Jubilee Gardens) |
| 0 | 245909 | Seaton scout hall |
Notes for non-locals
- A footpath which isn't marked on the OS maps runs north-south past CP1 and the two ponds. Its northern end is at the lane T-junction and southern one on the lane just north of the "H" of "Holyford".
- You can't get from CP2 to CP3 in anything like a direct route but have to go via either Jobbles Lane to the NE or the lane T-junction NW of Bovey Down to the SW. The entire stretch of wood in which CP2 lies is either formal access land or informally has tolerated access but you can't get in or out except at the ends or opposite Leacroft Farm, SW of CP2, and at 2a.
EWWBL
You can download the entry form and checkpoint map. Shute Beacon can be difficult to find if you don't know the woods so here's a detailed aerial photo.
The long route visits all checkpoints, the short one only 1,2 & 7. You can run either way round.
Directions to Umborne Village Hall are available on the Umborne Ug page.
| Point | Grid ref | Location |
| 0 | 236969 | Umborne Village Hall |
| 1 | 219971 | Parehayne Woods (down track) |
| 2 | 235943 | Heathhayne ford (south side) |
| 3 | 245939 | Colyton (water) |
| 4 | 253936 | Finger post at edge of field |
| 5 | 274946 | Musbury (water) |
| 6 | 258974 | Shute Beacon |
| 7 | 251964 | Lane junction |
| 8 | 236969 | Umborne Village Hall |