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Technical info for Planners
SI controls – as of June 2020
Total of 65 controls 181 to 245 incl on lightweight fibre-glass stakes
2 Start and 2 Finish
For the summer series, night series (and other level D events) we usually use a subset of these numbers and the controls plus some signs and first aid kit are passed from planner to planner. It is traditional that you help collect controls from the event before yours, or if you won’t be there to ask someone else to help on your behalf.
Ask David Esson for the current set of control numbers in use for Level D events and if you think you’ll need more then he will arrange extras to be made available.
GRAMP Ocad maps
Contact the mapping co-ordinator to make sure you have the most up to date version. NB The old Yahoo Group account is no longer used and we’ve swapped to Dropbox.
Minor map corrections can be made by the club using OCAD software on the club’s latop (aka Maptop) or mark up a paper copy and send to the mapping coordinator who will do it for you. Contact the mapping coordinator for advice using this contact form or emailing mapping “at” grampoc.com
Course planning
Planners Guide (updated Feb 2025) Aimed at Level C/Regional events but also has some good tips for Level D events and printing contact details.
Check the BOF website – search for “Appendix B” – for full guidance on course lengths and standards and more planning advice.
Condes planning software
Check the Condes website for up to date guides and downloads. Gramp has a licence for Condes and David Esson can supply you with the club’s username and password for installing and running the full bells and whistle version.
Purple Pen planning software
This software is free to use and can be downloaded from the Purple Pen website. It is easy to learn, intuitive to use, and is recommended for small events where you do not need the sophisticated options provided by Condes.
VHI 2011 Relays – partial results
Firstly, I would like to offer a wholehearted apology for the error that caused us to void the relay result and, by consequence, the overall Veterans Home International 2011 event. Quite simply, we made a labelling error for the all of the 2 Women + 1 Man category courses, i.e. on 4 of the 8 Courses. This resulted in competitors being given the wrong length courses for their legs, which meant that many senior veterans were sent out on much longer courses than anticipated, which after their efforts to conquer Birsemore Hill yesterday was, I’m sure, less than welcome. There was also confusion for later leg runners, who also had to run out of class and, no doubt, a severe feeling of let-down. The fact that this problem was greeted with such grace, forbearance and, amazingly, sympathy from competitors was truly humbling. I can’t say how grateful we all are for your responses, especially as I know of the long lengths many people went to to come and represent their country.
Following consultation, the Team Managers agreed that the preferred option was to not to attempt to declare a result on the basis of the remaining classes and as a result, there are no 2011 Relay, Overall or Stonewall Trophy Winners. It was felt that the extent of the voided courses was such that any result would not be fair. If the courses voided had crossed both categories, there may have been a case for declaring a result.
We will publish the results of the ‘valid’ relay courses and attempt to reconstruct the splits of those who ran on the wrong course so that we can provide a set of results by gaffle.
I hope you all enjoyed the Individual Event, narrowly won by England, the social evening in Ballater, that the problems on the Relay did not ruin your weekend and that at least some of you enjoyed running around what is a beautiful forest on courses that attracted praise from the competitors.
I’d like to record my thanks to all of the Team from Grampian and Mar Orienteering clubs that put the events together for their hard work and commitment as well as the landowners and the staff at the Lodge on the Loch.
Once again, please accept my apologies and I wish you all luck if you are selected next year.
Regards,
Pete Lawrence
2011 Veterans Home International Coordinator
09/10/11_VHI_Relays_Coull_2M+W_Results VHI_2M+W_relay_points
09/10/11_VHI_Relays_Coull_2M+W_Splits_by_gaffle
Splits for unaffected S and L course runners plus times for affected runners:
09/10/11_VHI_Relays_Coull_2W+M_Splits by_gaffle
Autumn Urban Sprint Series 2011
We decided to experiment this year by keeping the regular Wednesday pm slot going through the autumn by using some of our urban maps. Not quite as popular as the Summer Series but we still had a regular core of runners including some of our Cosmic friends who, although being more used to running flat out over the hills, still seemed to really enjoy the extra dimension of getting their heads around such detailed maps.
07/09/11_Hazlehead
07/09/11_Hazlehead_Splits
14/09/11_Duthie_Park_and_Ferryhill
20/09/11_Balgownie
28/09/11_Aberdeen_Uni
05/10/11_Seaton_and_Hillhead
Bob Sheridan (as he whizzed past me at Balgownie):
“This is my kind of orienteering! I like running FAST!!”
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SOL 6 Glen Dye Sept 25th 2011 – Results
Routegadget Winsplits
BOF results showing ranking points
Glen-Dye-SOL-6-Results.pdf
Glen-Dye-SOL-6-Splits.pdf
SOL_6_Glen_Dye_string.pdf
Sun 4/9/11 Crathes Level C Colour Coded Results
Summer Series 2011 – Results and Awards
A big thankyou to all our organiser/planners for helping to put on another cracking Summer Series.
Overall results and awards files below plus individual event files in no particular order.
summer_series_results_2011_final.pdf
2011_SS_final_awards.pdf
Templars_results.pdf
Crathes_results.pdf
Mulloch_Results.pdf
Scolty_results.pdf
Bennachie_Results.pdf
Tollohill_results.pdf
Duthie_results.pdf
Hazlehead_results.pdf
Kingshill_SS_29-06-2011_Results.pdf
Balmedie_220611_results.pdf
DunnottarResults15 june2011.pdf
Perwinnes_Results_3-6-11a.pdf
Foggiton results.pdf
Countesswells Results 17 05 2011.pdf
Job Descriptions
Grampian Orienteers Job Descriptions
Last reviewed Jan 2017
Club President
Club Secretary
Club Treasurer
Club Child Protection Officer
Membership Secretary
Mapping Coordinator
IT Coordinator
Events Coordinator
Club Junior Coach
Junior Squad Helper
Summer Forest Sprint Series 2011
GRAMP organised 3 out of the 6 Summer Forest Sprint Series 2011. Results from our events shown here – the Tollo Hill results are/were with the rest on the Maroc website for reasons I’ve forgotten now.
13/05/11_Dunnottar_Sprint_Results 17/06/11_Newmillhill_Sprint_Results
13/05/11_Dunnottar_Sprint_Splits 17/06/11_Newmillhill_Sprint_Splits
Sprint O is great fun – lots of controls in quick succession in a relatively short distance and fast running alone is no use in this discipline if it’s of the headless chicken variety! You really have to look closely at the map, make snap decisions about route choice, execute them quickly and cleanly while all the time trying to read a jiggling map and watch where your feet are going. Give it a go.
Sun 5/6/11 Balmedie Level C Colour Coded Results
Do not be alarmed by the amazingly quick winning times on some of the longer courses – there was a bit of a hiccup at this event as some courses had to be truncated/rerouted on the day to avoid various slumbering ravers and their detritus.
Sun 17/4/11 Bennachie Level C Colour Coded Results
Sun 27/2/11 Tyrebagger Level C Colour Coded Results
Grampian Mountain Challenge 2010 Invercauld
Day One Results
Day Two Results
Overall Results
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Action photos taken by Ian Hamilton on his Flickr site
Happy snaps of happy winners:
A Class Solo Alec Keith : A Class Pairs Oleg Chepelin/Tom Owens : A Class Female Solo Sarah O’Neil
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B Class Solo Gareth Yardley : B Class Pairs Jeff Paterson/Simon Bunn
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C Class Solo Euan Cameron : C Class Pairs Robin Orr/James Kellock
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(The smiley bearded man is not a multi-prize winner but the organiser, Sean O’Sullivan.)
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