Oops! If you were looking for info on Tollohill on 29th then click here.
Results
RouteGadget (this uses the amended splits – see below)
Due to member of public moving a control we have removed control 234 and the legs on either side from the results. Many thanks to Paul for planning, and to Tim for helping collect controls.
To celebrate the start of a new year we had a fun event setup at Hazlehead Park, with a Social party afterwards. Thanks to everyone who came out to enjoy the snowy courses, David for organising and Gomersalls for being soup monitors.
Many thanks to Ros for planning and Hugh and David for control collecting/controlling.
No 4 on the long was inspected last night and found to be in the correct place so the legs 3-4-5 have been reinstated in the results and used for RG.
Congratulations to all our Gramp Juniors who competed in this year’s Jon Duncan Junior Deeside Cup and especially to our 2 trophy winners, Fergus Gallagher M12 and Samantha McDonald W16.
You can see how everyone got on in the 2024 Jon Duncan Junior Deeside Cup Final Results.
The organisers decided to declare the results as final following the Bogendreip event as the tenth event at Cambus O’May was too close to Maroc’s AGM for getting trophies engraved.
Lovely frosty night for orienteering at Dunnottar Woods tonight. Well done to first time planner Sam Pickett and to Ros, Hugh and David E for helping collect controls afterwards
Come this Saturday and enjoy the brand new Permanent Orienteering Courses on a brand new map at Aden Country Park. The Gramp coaches will be there to offer advice/help for any who wish.
There are two recommended permanent orienteering courses in Aden, a short course which is approximately 1.8km in length, and a long course which is approximately 2.9km in length. You can also create your own courses, by visiting the controls in a different order, or only visiting a selection of the controls. From 10am to 2pm and last start is 1pm.
Many thanks to Dave K for planning and to Sam P & David E for helping collect controls afterwards. Lovely dry, still, partially moonlit night tonight – perfect for enjoying the devilishly detailed dunes.
Thanks also to Beachside Bakes for staying open late providing great coffee and cakes for hungry orienteers. If you missed out but are likely to be in the Balmedie area again soon then keep an eye on their Facebook page for opening hours as they said they’ll be open most Saturdays and Sundays if it’s dry for Christmassy bakes and gifts. Mmmmmm!
Results
RouteGadget everything on the 1:10000 map
Many thanks to Julian for planning and to Nigel and the 2 Dave’s for collecting controls.
Results Results with BOF ranking points
RouteGadget
Many thanks to Adrian for organising, Bob for Planning, Andy Oliver (MAROC) for controlling in advance and to David & Ian for controlling on the day!
Privacy – when entering our events your name may appear in the results section of this website or in newspaper reports. Grampian Orienteers data privacy policy
Photography – In line with the policies of British Orienteering, the organisers of this event request that any person wishing to take photos or video showing children should register their details with event volunteers before taking any such photos or videos. The event organisers reserve the right to ask people to refrain from taking photos or video and may, if such warnings are ignored, refer the matter to the police.
Results
RouteGadget (there’s a building and uncrossable fencing missing in the NW corner on RG as I haven’t got a copy of the updated map but wanted to get this up and running tonight)
Many thanks to Julian for planning, Dennis & Hugh for helping collect controls and to Agnes and David for acting as Bouncer to one of the controls.
Good to see the AUOC ‘flashmob’ – welcome (or welcome back) to Aberdeen! Hope you enjoyed it and feel inspired to try some more O with us soon.
P.S. Deeside Night Cup starts Wed 30th Oct at Hazlehead followed by Maroc’s event at Banchory on 6th Nov, then every Wed alternately right through to Feb. Check the DNC page for general details on this series and individual posts for each event on either Gramp or Maroc’s websites.
Many thanks to Fiona for planning her first event! And to Julian, Dennis, Samantha & Joanna for helping collect controls.
Results
RouteGadget – georef’ing glitched such that it’s impossible to match all control sites accurately to the map so had to compromise some in order to get the majority showing in more or less the right place
Many thanks to David Esson for planning and Fiona, Dennis and Samantha for helping collect the controls
Results (now the correct set of results! Sorry!)
RouteGadget
Thanks to Tim for braving the torrential rain at the most inconvenient time when he was putting out the controls, David for computing and control collecting assisted by Rachel and Pete.
Safety – A risk assessment will have been carried out by the organiser, but participants take part at their own risk and are responsible for their own safety during the event. We’ll be sharing parks/streets/woods with others so be courteous to other users and watch out for bikes/dogs/horseriders.
Health – Full leg and torso cover is required in wooded areas due to ticks.
Privacy – when entering our events your name may appear in the results section of this website or in newspaper reports. Grampian Orienteers data privacy policy
Photography – In line with the policies of British Orienteering, the organisers of this event request that any person wishing to take photos or video showing children should register their details with event volunteers before taking any such photos or videos. The event organisers reserve the right to ask people to refrain from taking photos or video and may, if such warnings are ignored, refer the matter to the police.
Results (updated 22/8/24)
RouteGadget – you can find out how close to optimum route you were
Apologies but I couldn’t get the map to load with the georef file produced by Condes but wanted to get something loaded asap for you to play with so you’ll have to tweak your trace manually.
BTW, RG now up for the last few Summer Series events too
Short – 3.0km (optimum route), 20m, 11 controls
Long – 5.0km (optimum route), 35m, 15 controls
Thankyou to Donald and Oonagh Grassie for kicking off the Urban Sprints on a blustery evening, David for computing and control collecting and thanks to everyone who came out to run (twice in one case – lesson learned, check you’ve got the right map).
P.S. RouteGadget also loaded for recent events at Foggieton, Glen Dye and Duthie Park
Safety – A risk assessment will have been carried out by the organiser, but participants take part at their own risk and are responsible for their own safety during the event. We’ll be sharing parks/streets/woods with others so be courteous to other users and watch out for bikes/dogs/horseriders.
Health – Full leg and torso cover is required in wooded areas due to ticks.
Privacy – when entering our events your name may appear in the results section of this website or in newspaper reports. Grampian Orienteers data privacy policy
Photography – In line with the policies of British Orienteering, the organisers of this event request that any person wishing to take photos or video showing children should register their details with event volunteers before taking any such photos or videos. The event organisers reserve the right to ask people to refrain from taking photos or video and may, if such warnings are ignored, refer the matter to the police.
RouteGadget
Ultrasprint Loop 1
Ultrasprint Loop 2
Ultrasprint Loop 3
Yellow-ish
Long
Yellow-ish: 1.3km, 1:4000 map
Long “lotsa loops”: 2.7km, 1:4000 map
And, for something slightly different, we had “UltraSprints”:
3 loops (do as many or as few as you like, and please be prepared to recycle maps if everyone wants a go), each between 0.8 and 1.1km. The map is 1:4000, enlarged to 1:2000.
Do a loop, catch your breath as you download, clear your dibber and repeat….
Safety – A risk assessment will have been carried out by the organiser, but participants take part at their own risk and are responsible for their own safety during the event. We’ll be sharing parks/streets/woods with others so be courteous to other users and watch out for bikes/dogs/horseriders.
Health – Full leg and torso cover is required in wooded areas due to ticks.
Privacy – when entering our events your name may appear in the results section of this website or in newspaper reports. Grampian Orienteers data privacy policy
Photography – In line with the policies of British Orienteering, the organisers of this event request that any person wishing to take photos or video showing children should register their details with event volunteers before taking any such photos or videos. The event organisers reserve the right to ask people to refrain from taking photos or video and may, if such warnings are ignored, refer the matter to the police.
The results are now complete.
Many thanks to Adrian for planning and to Ros, Hugh and David for helping collect controls.
Safety – A risk assessment will have been carried out by the organiser, but participants take part at their own risk and are responsible for their own safety during the event. We’ll be sharing parks/streets/woods with others so be courteous to other users and watch out for bikes/dogs/horseriders.
Health – Full leg and torso cover is required in wooded areas due to ticks.
Privacy – when entering our events your name may appear in the results section of this website or in newspaper reports. Grampian Orienteers data privacy policy
Photography – In line with the policies of British Orienteering, the organisers of this event request that any person wishing to take photos or video showing children should register their details with event volunteers before taking any such photos or videos. The event organisers reserve the right to ask people to refrain from taking photos or video and may, if such warnings are ignored, refer the matter to the police.
Safety – A risk assessment will have been carried out by the organiser, but participants take part at their own risk and are responsible for their own safety during the event. We’ll be sharing parks/streets/woods with others so be courteous to other users and watch out for bikes/dogs/horseriders.
Health – Full leg and torso cover is required in wooded areas due to ticks.
Privacy – when entering our events your name may appear in the results section of this website or in newspaper reports. Grampian Orienteers data privacy policy
Photography – In line with the policies of British Orienteering, the organisers of this event request that any person wishing to take photos or video showing children should register their details with event volunteers before taking any such photos or videos. The event organisers reserve the right to ask people to refrain from taking photos or video and may, if such warnings are ignored, refer the matter to the police.
Sorry but we’ve had to cancel this event.
Safety – A risk assessment will have been carried out by the organiser, but participants take part at their own risk and are responsible for their own safety during the event. We’ll be sharing parks/streets/woods with others so be courteous to other users and watch out for bikes/dogs/horseriders.
Health – Full leg and torso cover is required in wooded areas due to ticks.
Privacy – when entering our events your name may appear in the results section of this website or in newspaper reports. Grampian Orienteers data privacy policy
Photography – In line with the policies of British Orienteering, the organisers of this event request that any person wishing to take photos or video showing children should register their details with event volunteers before taking any such photos or videos. The event organisers reserve the right to ask people to refrain from taking photos or video and may, if such warnings are ignored, refer the matter to the police.
Sorry but we’ve had to cancel this event.
Safety – A risk assessment will have been carried out by the organiser, but participants take part at their own risk and are responsible for their own safety during the event. We’ll be sharing parks/streets/woods with others so be courteous to other users and watch out for bikes/dogs/horseriders.
Health – Full leg and torso cover is required in wooded areas due to ticks.
Privacy – when entering our events your name may appear in the results section of this website or in newspaper reports. Grampian Orienteers data privacy policy
Photography – In line with the policies of British Orienteering, the organisers of this event request that any person wishing to take photos or video showing children should register their details with event volunteers before taking any such photos or videos. The event organisers reserve the right to ask people to refrain from taking photos or video and may, if such warnings are ignored, refer the matter to the police.
Many thanks to Dave Kirk for planning and to Alan Bennett & Bob Daly for helping collect controls and all who journeyed north to sample Haddo’s pot pourri of features – it’s amazing how much is packed into such a small area.
Many thanks to Dennis for planning and to Dave K, Fiona, Sam & Joanna for helping collect the controls.
Safety – A risk assessment will have been carried out by the organiser, but participants take part at their own risk and are responsible for their own safety during the event. We’ll be sharing parks/streets/woods with others so be courteous to other users and watch out for bikes/dogs/horseriders.
Health – Full leg and torso cover is required in wooded areas due to ticks.
Privacy – when entering our events your name may appear in the results section of this website or in newspaper reports. Grampian Orienteers data privacy policy
Photography – In line with the policies of British Orienteering, the organisers of this event request that any person wishing to take photos or video showing children should register their details with event volunteers before taking any such photos or videos. The event organisers reserve the right to ask people to refrain from taking photos or video and may, if such warnings are ignored, refer the matter to the police.
Well done to all the Gramps who ran at the Scottish Champs at Craig Leach and Roseisle over the weekend and big thanks to INVOC and MOR for staging two great events to test everyone both individually and as a team.
Individual
Fergus Gallagher 5th M12
Tim Griffin 7th M55L
Kevin Reynard 1st M55S
Dennis McDonald 11th M60L
Sam Gomersall 14th M60L
Bob Daly 16th M65L
Paul Duley 2nd M70L
Neil McLean 1st M80
Samantha McDonald 9th W16A
Fiona McDonald 10th W45L
Claire Gallagher 1st W45S
Joanna McDonald 1st Yellow
Relay
17+ points category
Gramp 1 5th – Tim, Claire, Sam
Gramp 2 8th – Malcolm Fisher (honorary Gramp for the day), Lesley, Kevin
20+ points category
Gramp 3 9th – David, Adrian, Bob
We lent Fergus to MAROC so he could get a run with the Marocees who came 8th in the Age 36- category. Thank you Emily and Dougal for welcoming him into your team.
Photographic evidence can be found on our Facebook page.
Have you seen the WOC 2024 trailer yet?
Are you receiving monthly newsletters from Zoe and information on event dates and officials from Paul?
These are sent, via a distribution list, to the email address we have registered in your membership details so if you’re not receiving these emails please
1. ask yourself if you’ve changed your email address in the last year or so and forgotten to tell us?
2. check your Spam folder
If the answer to 1 is “Oops! Yes, I did” then please email membership@grampoc.com with your new email address so we can update the records.
If the answer to 2 is “Aha! So that’s where they’ve been going!” please try to teach your email system to accept Zoe and Paul’s sender emails as valid so they’re unblocked.
If you’re not a member – yet 😉 – we still like to keep in touch with our drop-ins so you can subscribe to the Gramp website/blog using the link at the bottom of the home page and each time we post something new you’ll receive an email. 95% of posts are event-related so you won’t get swamped with “junk”.
On a related theme, you should be receiving regular email news from Scottish Orienteering too. If not then you can sign up to their newsletters here.
Many thanks go to Neil (Planner), Paul (Organiser) plus all the helpers and Drew Tivendale (Controller from MAROC) for putting on a great event today.
Results
RouteGadget
Routes are going to look like spaghetti but the splits graph may make interesting reading for some. To access that use the red & white “Splitsbrowser” icon top right and select names of folk you want to compare. Ideally you’re looking for a pretty straight line diagonally showing you maintained concentration and effort evenly all the way round. Any sudden dips in gradient mean uh-oh!!
Congratulations to Tim G on shaking off his event weather jinx and organising a lovely warm spring evening for us to scamper round in circles. Thanks to Matthew and David for helping collect controls afterwards.
Many thanks to Lesley & Sam for planning and to Tim for helping collect the controls afterwards and David on keyboard.
A fun event to kick off this year’s joint Forest Sprint Series with Maroc.
Courses provided by Ros, results by David, mud by this lovely spring weather we’ve been having.
Click here for the full 2024 AGM minutes and reports. Or for those of you strapped for time here’s a summary of the headlines/highlights in no particular order:
We have 2 trophies, kindly donated by past members Margaret and Oliver Musgrave, and the Chairman’s Quaich which are awarded to members who have gone above and beyond in the service of the club in a variety of ways:
Musgrave Trophies
Neil Mclean – For truly outstanding results throughout the year (see above)
Ros Nicholson – For her Mapping duties. Not an easy gig at the best of times and she has really been putting in the hours investigating leads on possible new areas and building relationships with organisations like Haddo Country Park volunteers.
Chairman’s Quaich Zoe Griffin
Not only does she keep the Chairman in check, she organized the brilliant Club Dinner and also had the time to plan our day at Moray ’23 at Roseisle.
Gramp Champs 2023 Congratulations everyone!!
Junior Men – 1st Fergus Gallagher, 2nd Lennon Atchison
Senior Men – 1st Matthew Thompson, 2nd Lachlan Kirk, 3rd Calum McLeod
Veteran Men – 1st Julian Robinson, 2nd David Esson, 3rd Adrian Will
Super Veteran Men – 1st Ian Hamilton, 2nd Bob Daly, 3rd Dennis McDonald
Junior Women – 1st Samantha McDonald, 2ndOrla Gallagher, 3rd Joanna McDonald
Senior Women – None
Veteran Women – 1st Claire Gallagher, 2nd Emily Arthur
Super Veteran Women – 1st Oonagh Grassie, 2nd Lesley Gomersall, 3rd Helen Rowlands
Full Gramp Champs results to follow.
Jon Duncan Junior Deeside Cup
2nd Orla Gallagher W10
2nd Joanna McDonald W12
1st Samantha McDonald W14
1st Fergus Gallagher M10
3rd Logan Thompson M10
3rd Lennon Atchison M12
Other Successes
Scot Champs – 1st Neil Mclean plus 4 podiums
Scot Score – three 1sts – Tim Griffin, Bob Daley, Neil Mclean plus 9 podiums
SOL – two 1sts – Neil Mclean & David Esson plus 5 podiums
S6D – two 1sts – Sam Griffin & Neil Mclean – 7 podiums
Scottish Schools – 2nd Fergus Gallagher, 3rd Samantha MacDonald
Scottish Middle Champs – 3rd Tim Griffin plus 3 top 10s
JK – 5 top 10s
BOC – 3rd David Esson, 10th Duncan Grassie
DNC 22/23 – Ian Hamilton won best course + Helen Rowlands was 3rd Female + David Esson attended every event (6 years in a row)
Thanks to everyone who ventured out in a rather misty Glen Dye tonight, Ros for planning, Hugh for helping collect controls, David for results and Rachel & Pete for checking the control tags were placed correctly (although the chance to use that as an excuse to swing by Finzean Farm Shop Tea Room may have been a big decider when they offered their help?) and guiding Ros through her first go at TD5 planning.
Don’t forget if you’re going to Tilquhillie next week and want to go to the meal and prize giving you need to let Andrew McMurtrie know your food choices asap. See the DNC Blog post for details.
Many many thanks to Sam & Lesley who put out the controls on my behalf and to Ros & Hugh and Sam & Lesley for collecting the controls afterwards.
David
Raw Score Results (V missing from these results as control wasn’t working)
Overall Results with points for V added back in plus HHH bonuses
Many thanks to those who braved this morning’s horrible rain and mud-fest to tackle this year’s Scrabble-themed HHH challenge. From a planner’s point of view it was fun to watch you all crossing and re-crossing the car park and trying to second guess your strategies, although in Oli’s case we knew why he kept reappearing as he’d no way of telling the time other than us shouting out “21 minutes”… “39 minutes”…
Also interesting to see who chose which bonus words to target and what a difference it made to the pre-bonus positions. Congratulations to Ian Hamilton who targeted the two big hitters, HANDICAP and HAZLEHEAD at 500 points each, gambling a bit to finish 51 seconds over time while hoovering up HAZE but boosting his score from 9th to 1st place. Also interesting to see that nobody chose to interpret the rules in a Taskmaster way by repeatedly running round GRAMP for 50 minutes – the rules didn’t say you could do that but then neither did they say you couldn’t – although I think that just demonstrates that orienteers have itchy feet and want to go new places all the time rather than a lack of deviousness.
Big thank you to the Essons for hosting the post-HHH social with 3 varieties of soup on offer plus nibbles, Lesley for the bumper crop of savoury scones which complemented the soup perfectly and Rachel for the pepperkakehus to round things off.
Thanks also to Pete, Ian, Sam, Tim, Zoe and Rachel for control wrangling and David Esson on keyboards.
Scrabble Score
Controls were labelled with letters, values were Scrabble letter points x 10.
As with a normal Score, face value for each letter was scored on first visit only but… stonking bonus points to be had for this event ( a sort of reverse handicap?) if you revisited controls in correct sequence whilst spelling out certain themed words as listed on the map. For maximum efficiency folk started spelling words right from the start which gained them control points and bonus points simultaneously.
Splits printout showed the letter codes so we could quickly check nobody had sneaked in a random high scoring letter somewhere in the sequence thus invalidating any bonus.
Time limit: 50 mins
Late finish penalty: 10 points/min over limit
Ultimate penalty: lose all points if over 60 mins
Click here for a copy of the map if you fancy doing some armchair orienteering. What would you have chosen to do?
Wow! What a wet one and that was just getting to the start!
Thanks to Paul Duley for planning, David Esson for computing and Rachel and Pete who will collect controls tomorrow when it’s forecast to be slightly less wet.
Apologies to those who travelled to Tollohill only to find the event had been cancelled. The car park and forest were fine when I arrived to put controls out but the rain about 4 turned the car park into a slopey ice rink which I only escaped from sideways with a very high heart rate.
I should have cancelled the event then but was still hoping the forecast of increasing temperatures would melt the ice. When I returned at 5.15, it was obvious the car park was still unusable and with nowhere else to safely park, we cancelled. By this time Rachel was in a last rehearsal in the Music Hall so we couldn’t get the Gramp website updated but did manage to put something on our Facebook page.
In fact the open paths in the woods were also icy by that time so it was the right decision to cancel, just a bit too late.
We hope to reschedule the event in the New Year.
Tim Griffin, Organiser
Results RouteGadget
Thanks to Dennis for planning tonight’s challenges, Ian & Fiona for helping collect controls and David Esson who is back in the results chair and practising night sports photography while waiting for us all to come back – see our Facebook page for pics.
Woohoo! We have 2*(JD)2C Champs to celebrate!
Well done to Samantha McDonald W14 and Fergus Gallacher M10 for coming top of their age class, not forgetting the other Gramp Juniors who took part – Logan Thompson & Lennon Atchison both 3rd in their classes; Orla Gallacher & Joanna McDonald both 2nd in theirs.
Click here for the full (JD)2C overall results for 2023.
| Mens | A | B | C |
| 1 | David Bunn EUOC | Jakub Pitula AUOC | Ben Basten GOAT |
| 2 | Alex Wetherill EUOC | Ben Toole STUOC | |
| 3 | Ewan Bennett EUOC | Joshua Britain AUOC | |
| Womens | A | B | C |
| 1 | Ellie Bales EUOC | Megan Cumming STUOC | Ruth Potter GOAT |
| 2 | Eilidh Campbell EUOC | Kirsty Ryman GOAT | Caroline Sharp GOAT |
| 3 | Iris McMillan EUOC | Alexandra Lennie GOAT |
Congratulations to everyone at AUOC, especially Charlotte and Isla, for an amazing amount of hard work planning, organising, control wrangling, co-opting parents and Marocs and Gramps etc etc to make this weekend’s competition a great experience for all. Lots of excited buzz and chatter in the car park about how it was worth the long journey to get to run in two great areas on some challenging courses.
Congratulations too to EUOC for winning the overall trophy:
EUOC 499 points, GOAT 476, STUOC 403, AUOC 357
Now that the 23/24 Deeside Night Cup Series has started we’d like to point out a few things so even if you’re a seasoned Night O addict, please read on…
Night O Safety
With orienteering at night comes some added enjoyment (for most) but also some additional hazards, we all need to be aware of and mitigate against as best we can. What if our headtorch fails? What happens if we injure ourself? What if, what if?
Hopefully, we’re not teaching anyone to suck eggs here but it is worth reminding ourselves that if something does happen and we are not prepared, then others may be inconvenienced or worse, because of this. So, a few items that we should all seriously consider carrying with us on our run – some should not really be for discussion!
– Primary headtorch (obvious!)
– Compass (obvious!)
– Spare headtorch or equivalent light source (essential)*
– Whistle (essential)
– Mobile phone – the organiser/planner’s number is on the map for a reason!
* NOTE: Spare battery for your main headtorch, is not a replacement for a separate spare torch, as it could be more than your battery that has runout/failed.
It is colder at night, so consider what you wear. What if you did injury yourself or maybe just weren’t up to feeling running at your usual speed – you will become cold very quickly if you are not running or going at your usual speed. We do night O through the winter, so keep that in mind and maybe take a bumbag with extra clothing.
If you are new to night orienteering be aware it may take you longer than ‘normal’ – much longer for some. Also, if you are not at TD5 level, you really should be doing this in the daylight before taking on night orienteering as the Deeside Night Cup (long) and the mini-cup (short) is planned with NO dispensation for it being dark. Maybe you are at TD5 level but never night O’d before – speak to someone about a shadowed run. Use the club member email to put a message round that you’d appreciate some mentoring and which DNC events you plan to attend and someone will respond.
Big thank you to Ian Hamilton for launching Gramp’s side of this year’s DNC with two entertaining sprint style courses and also to Tim and Dennis for control collecting.
Control 140 on the Long went walkabout so the legs either side of it have been voided. David Esson volunteered to go and have a look around in the daylight tomorrow but if he can’t find it we’ll post here and ask anyone who might be in the vicinity to keep their eyes peeled as sometimes controls mysteriously reappear even after several weeks.
Results
RG for Part 1 1:10,000 map (ignore the distances shown!!)
RG for Part 2 1:4,000 map
Ian Hamilton spent a lot of time standing at the starts and finishes and managed to snap many of you as you squelched past. Click here to see his pics.
(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
RouteGadget
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!
Some more shots below from Tim G giving a flavour of the two days:
The Tees & Mugs have landed
Could there be a Control at the end of the Rainbow?
Many thanks to Charlotte and the AUOC team for planning tonight’s final Urban Sprint for 2024, and Isla and David for helping collect controls in complete darkness on a wet and stormy night.
Well done to the 9 Gramps who went over to Anagach to compete in the Scottish Score Champs 2023 and came home with pretty much a medal each including 3 outright champions. Woohoo!!
M40 3rd David Esson
M45 2nd Adrian Will
M55 1st Tim Griffin and 4th Hugh Nicholson
M60 2nd Iain McLeod
M65 1st Bob Daly
M80 1st Neil McLean
W55 3rd Ros Nicholson
W65 2nd Oonagh Grassie
Results
RouteGadget One control wasn’t working and one missing so both were removed from the splits and don’t appear on the map on RG either to make everything all match up electronically. You know where you went and can plot/upload routes based on your original printed version of the map although anyone looking at it in 12 months time will wonder why everyone took seemingly random detours to the same places!!
(Alan B – sorry but your GPS route got binned while reloading corrected course data so you’ll have to upload again.)
Thanks to Ros & Matt for planning tonight and giving you the chance to try out the updated western half of the map; Charlotte, Hugh and Jonathan for helping collect controls; David Esson for results.
Last chance to get an Urban fix at Aberdeen Uni next week – details in separate post.
Results RouteGadget
Many thanks to everyone who came out to run today. Hope you all enjoyed the brain-bending start to Pete’s course? Thanks also to David E for results and Rachel, Tim G, Matthew and Hugh for control wrangling afterwards.
Bonus points up for grabs: how many cable ties did it take to encompass the big trees at no’s 8 and 12? Closest guess wins.
Many thanks to Adrian Will for tonight’s route choice challenges using the map recently updated by Donald Grassie, David Esson for results and Pete and Rachel for helping collect controls. See you all at Duthie Park next week.
GRAMPIAN ORIENTEERS