Report

Thanks to Sion Matthews for this report.

A good turn up of entries for the Icicle Navigation Run 2022. Lee and Endaf went and put the symbols out an hour ahead of the crews, whilst Sion signed everyone on and gave them their packs, helped by Dylan. Lee later went to fetch the symbols and amazingly they were all still there.
Starting in the Gaerwen Stermat car park the route was divided into five sections, the rules were important on this event so some crews, although they found the symbols, wrote them down in the wrong section or picked up the duds. Grid references were used along with some Not As Map’s (NAM’s).

Section 1 - Stermat, Gaerwen to Glyngarth, a fairly simple first section through Star, ending with the hard to find white in Llandegfan.|
Section 2 - Glyngarth to Llangoed, another hard to find road, the hairpin left opposite the Gazelle hotel, heading towards Llanfaes using the slot right at Sling.
Section 3 - Llangoed to Mariandyrys, this is where it gets tricky, with a NAM and looping back towards yourself on the map including the Caim loop, it’s easy to get lost here.
Section 4 - Mariandyrys to Pentraeth B5109, another NAM then heading towards the LLanddona beach but taking the short route. With a maze of little white and NAM roads, a few where used in Llanddona to separate the novices and experts.
Section 5 - Pentraeth B5109 to Gaerwen Arms, first section being a long B road then heading through Pentraeth run towards Ceint, the NAM in Ceint leads up to the back of Gaerwen to the park and ride for the final NAM, then straight to the finish at Gaerwen Arms.

Well done to all crews, especially the winners Deio and Gwenllian who got 100% of the symbols, by only missing the last symbol just outside of Gaerwen Arms. Will got furthest cleanest ahead of Kevin, Osian and Dion, who missed a symbol in section 1 on a wide yellow in Llandefan village, with Duncan and Kay doing the same but also writing one of the symbols in the wrong section (end of section 3) loosing half a point, super close. Another furthest cleanest was Dion and Cory ahead of Chloe and Catrin, the girls missing the very first symbol.
Congratulations to Deio and Gwenllian on winning the Icicle tankard 2022
Nice to see new faces coming into the sport as well as the regulars.

RESULTS.
1. Deio Hughes / Gwenllian Owen; VW Tiguan – 58 points.
2. Will Hughes; VW Golf – 57 pts*.
3. Kevin Evans / Osian Jones; Skoda Fabia – 57 pts.
4. Duncan Littler / Kay Littler; VW Caddy - 56½ pts.
5. Emyr Owen / Aron Jones; Freelander – 45 pts.
6. Iwan Evans / Luke edwards; Ford Focus – 45 pts.
7. Daniel Jones / Moi Williams; Mitsubishi Pajero – 41 pts.
8. Aron Evans / Tom Lindstrom; BMW 3 – 35 pts.
9. Lee Threadgold / Sion Jones; Peugeot RCZ – 32 pts.
10. Dion Rowlands / Cory Thomas; Toyota – 31 pts*
11. Chloe Thomas / Catrin Jones; VW polo – 31 pts.
12. Ela jones / John Evans; Ford focus - 30½ pts.
*= furthest cleanest. Maximum possible score was 58 points.

Thanks to Sion and Lee Matthews, Endaf Davies and Dylan Jones for their work in organising the event. Thanks also to Stermat, Gaerwen, and the Gaerwen Arms for the use of their facilities.

Information

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 organised by Sion Matthews and has the prize of the prestigious Icicle Tankard for the winners. This is the first of the winter's series for Duncan's Romer (see Club Championships).

The start venue is Stermat car park, Gaerwen - Ordnance Survey map 114 (Anglesey/Ynys Môn), reference 488 719½. what3words location = writers.breathed.sprinkler
Sign on at 18.45 hours with 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.