GMC South Gorms 2023 Results

Very wet road and path at Start of GMC Day 2 with Start banner — Day 2 Start

(Think this one needs renamed to “The Really Wet One”)

Day 1 Day 2 Overall
Glitch with Team G&J’s two results not combining now fixed

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Day 1 using hill map Day 1 using forest map
Day 2 using hill map Day 2 using forest map

Organiser’s report Planner’s report More photos

A big, big thank you to David Kirk, Gareth Yardley and Ian Hamilton for all your hard work bringing the GMC behemoth to life again and also to the GMC support team for control wrangling, computing, hospitality, emergency hotline duties, hill marshalling, bag handling (thanks Lizzy) and a zillion other little things in the heat of the moment.
And we are indebted to the support and co-operation of The National Trust for Scotland, especially the staff at Mar Lodge for all their assistance and interest in our event, and donating NTS themed prizes.

Thanks to Maroc for the use of their Linn of Dee map, a fun little area really came into the limelight on Day 2 when weather forced the hill section to be drastically shortened thus putting the emphasis on finer detail orienteering for a change which many folk seemed to relish. For this reason there are two versions of Day 2 RG, one using the hill map for the overview and one using the forest map for the finer detail although a couple of the controls won’t align exactly with printed maps but close enough.

David is hanging up his organiser’s waterproofs this year after 6 GMCs – hope you enjoy Gramp’s token of our appreciation for a quite simply staggering amount of time, hard graft and commitment to this event over the years!

Congrats to our overall winners:
C: Alasdair Jackson/Steven Banham aka Peaked2Soon, David Robertson, Ishbel and Charles Howorth aka The Howorth’s
B: Dan Gooch, Alec Keith and Jenny/Susan Blackwood aka Two be decided
A: Philip Vokes, Andrew Reeve/Iain Harding aka Zoe & Iain, Jill Stephen/Oleg Chepelin

and also to all our competitors who cheerfully (?!) plodged round in all that rain!! Hope you all got home safely despite the water hazards. If I had to sum up the event in three words from what I overheard while sitting on download it would be “biblical” (amount of rain and flood water), “luxury” (the overnight facilities at Muir Cottage) and “thanks” (GMC competitors are always the very polite and understanding) – you’re welcome, it’s a pleasure watching you all having so much Type 2 fun!