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Duthie Park POC

The Duthie Park permanent orienteering course has had a face lift, courtesy of two energetic young lads. Andrew and Matthew live close to the park and were looking for a lockdown exercise challenge. QR codes, a map and a marker pen later and they have ensured all the controls are legible once again. If youContinue reading “Duthie Park POC”

SiEntries now provide enhanced event searching.

SiEntries and SPORTident have been working on an enhanced orienteering events list. They have combined the search functions available from the SiEntries website with the events list published by British Orienteering. The new list can be used to see all orienteering events in the UK and to filter the list by club, association, event date,Continue reading “SiEntries now provide enhanced event searching.”

HHH 2018 results

Mon-O-poly Results Well done to everyone that braved the cold and took on a whole new style of Monopoly at Tyrebagger today. HHH results Congratulations to the winners of both courses, Olivia Coman and Lynn Smith on the short, Keith Yardley and Rob Hickling on the long.

Scolty (Level C) 5th November 2017 – Results

Gramp Champs and JD2C Event We hope you enjoyed running at Scolty. It’s a hilly and physically tough area in some places, fast in others, and the navigation can be testing – especially near the far start on Hill of Gouach. The air temperature of 5 degrees felt chilly in the tent, but was pleasantContinue reading “Scolty (Level C) 5th November 2017 – Results”

Hazlehead Forest Sprint Wednesday 12th April Results

Results A straightforward event at Hazlehead: just one unmapped abandoned tent between two points – not quite as exciting as the naturist sunbathing in the dunes at Balmedie last year. Olivia had brisk trade at her cake stall, not surprising as we were spoilt for choice and my choice was delicious. Some new faces andContinue reading “Hazlehead Forest Sprint Wednesday 12th April Results”

2016 Summer Series Finale Templars Park, BBQ and prize giving

A “slight twist” was promised and turned out to be a retrO twist so thanks to Stuart for all his hard work checking punch patterns and calculating times and winners the hard way – far more work for him than us playing spot-the-difference copying courses from master maps. He spoiled us though: – a table to doContinue reading “2016 Summer Series Finale Templars Park, BBQ and prize giving”

Balmedie summer series (including the final race of the GAC) 29.6.16

Registration for Wednesday is in the Southern car parking area. Turn right at the mini roundabout near the first parking area and carry on until the road runs out! Hopefully we will get the BBQ cranked up so bring some food along. If you have some BBQ tools these will come in handy too. CoursesContinue reading “Balmedie summer series (including the final race of the GAC) 29.6.16”

Balmedie Forest Sprint 11th May

Lovely weather, a very twisty-turny course, lots of controls and a double-sided map caught out the unwary … well done to all those that succeeded! Results Splits Routegadget Overall after 5 events … all could change …

40th Anniversary Photo Competition

1996 11 Person Relay Winners Richard Oxlade, Rob Hickling, James Esson, Tim Nash, Bob Daly Gordon Hendry, George Esson Andrew Lobban, Duncan Grassie, Laura Mackinnon, David Esson Planner was Neil McLean Controller was Chris Aust Organiser was Donald Grassie The first (and only) response to our wee competition was Neil McLean whose first reaction onContinue reading “40th Anniversary Photo Competition”

Who’s been monkeying around?

This pair of apes were spotted swinging through the canopy at Crathes this afternoon. There is a banana skin for the first person who can work out which Gramp members are in disguise.

Scotly Forest Sprint 8/5/15 Results

Thanks to everyone who came to the event at Scolty on Friday. The weather held fair and there was no mention of exit polls during the post event analysis. Well done to MAROC’s Jo Wright who narrowly beat AUOC’s flying Finn Janne Heikkinen. The leader after 5 events is Bob Daly (Gramp) 5 points ahead of AUOC’s JanneContinue reading “Scotly Forest Sprint 8/5/15 Results”

And now the much anticipated… HHH results

HHH results After some serious mental arithmetic Kevin has finalised the results from Hazlehead and adds this message ” Thank you to all those who turned up, on what started out as quite a dreich morning, and entered into the spirit of both the event and the quiz. I tried to make it a littleContinue reading “And now the much anticipated… HHH results”