Welcome
Hello!
As the new event organisers for the 2022 event, we wanted to introduce ourselves and let you know how excited we are about welcoming you all on the start line at St Bees in April 2022.
Running through the Lake District on the Northern Traverse ©James Kirby
About Ourea Events
Our team is highly experienced in organising multi-day ultra races thanks to our other events, the Montane Dragon's Back Race® and Cape Wrath Ultra®.
We are confident that we will bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the organisation of the 2022 Northern Traverse, ensuring that you will enjoy a brilliant and exciting adventure along Wainwright's Coast to Coast route with full confidence in the event support and organisation.
Will we be changing anything?
We'd like to take the opportunity to assure you that we will be making no fundamental changes to the 2022 event, and will only look to introduce improvements based on our experience from organising our other events.
We may include minor changes to the route - e.g. our intention is to go over Helm Crag vs down Far Easedale for instance. You can expect a full update in the new year with high quality GPX files of the route to follow also. We also intend to provide high-quality Harvey 1:40,000 mapping to each participant.
We’re getting out in the field to check everything straightaway, and Shane is currently completing a full route recce shortly - give him a wave if you see him out there!
We'll be adjusting the support point 'menu' to meat and fish free to match our food sustainability policy, and giving the mandatory kit a once-over to clarify a few things. Also, we'll be recruiting more professional staff to help - e.g. a 'first response team' and more.
What's really clear to us is that Open Adventure built some seriously solid foundations for us to hit the ground running and we look forward to developing things to make your experience absolutely tip-top.
Have you taken part before?
If you're a Northern Traverse / Lakes Traverse old hand, we'd love to invite you to share your thoughts - pre-feedback if you will! Just get in touch and we'll be delighted to see what you have to say.
Any questions? Please get in touch...
If you have any questions about the above, or about the event in April, then please don't hesitate to get in touch - we would be delighted to chat!
We will be in touch with some more event updates in the new year, in the meantime, happy training!
Yours in running,
The Northern Traverse team at Ourea Events.