Category Archives: Club info

Our very own Rob Hickling helped Scotland to second place down in Wales over the weekend. I haven’t had a chance to read the results in detail but did spot him doing very well in the individual M60 competition on Saturday chasing down fellow Scot and big rival Eddie Harwood to score 7 and 8Continue reading “VHIs 2015 – Scotland gain 2nd place”

Congratulations to the following GRAMPS on their SOL successes in 2015: Rob Hickling 1st M60 (have a good one at the VHIs this weekend!) George Esson 3rd M65S Neil McLean 1st M70 Morven Farquharson 2nd W10 Kirsty Farquharson 3rd W10 Carolyn McLeod 1st W40L Anne Hoy 3rd W55S Anne Hickling 1st W60S

Great result for Tim yesterday in a truly mind boggling race around the peaks on either side of Glen Coe. Part hill running, part scrambling, part Spider Manning his way round 30 odd km of brutal terrain in 7:55:09 and only 11 minutes behind the Skyrunning World Champion, Emelie Forsberg. (Don’t think he’ll mind beingContinue reading “Tim Gomersall 6th in inaugural Glen Coe Skyline Race”

Ali Robertson leaping over one of Strathfarrar’s finest boggy bits. (Photo by ActivNorth) This may look impressive but is as nothing compared to the hoops Richard Oxlade and Anne Hickling have been jumping through on our behalf over the last two years in their respective roles as Highland 2015 Co-ordinator and Scottish Orienteering 6-Day EventContinue reading “S6D Highland 2015”

A small but determined contingent of Gramps travelled across to EckoLand for the Scottish Championships 23rd/24th May and gained several podium finishes between them: 1st 17+ Points Relay Class: Gramp One aka Carolyn and Iain McLeod and Bob Daly (Woohoo!) W21S Individual: Heather Hale (Woohoo too!) 2nd W50L Carolyn McLeod W55S Anne Hoy M50S RichardContinue reading “Scottish Championships 2015”

Rachel Scott and Kate Robertson helped Team CNR to victory today in the ActivityMix Corporate Decathlon Urban Navigation event. Although as it all took place within a very small and well-known area of central Aberdeen there was very little navigation involved unless you count the navigation through Google and Yahoo pages to find the answersContinue reading “Grampian Orienteers help CNR to victory in the ActivityMix CD Urban Navigation”

Congrats to Pete Lawrence and Anne Hickling for their 3rd places overall on M50S and W60S respectively after 2 days of tough and intricate orienteering in the Lake District. Steep, rocky, muddy hillsides really sorted the sheep from the mountain goats. It was all too tempting to follow the muddy trods along the path ofContinue reading “JK2015 – 2 GRAMPs on the podium”

Just over 30 GRAMP members enjoyed a beautiful sunny day at Balnagowan on Sunday. Full results are on the MAROC website http://www.marocscotland.org.uk/ In the club competition the result was close but GRAMP came 3rd, just behind much larger teams from FVO and ESOC. Special mention should be made of Jonathan Smith, who inadvertently entered theContinue reading “Compass Sport Cup 2015 Results”

(It’s not often I get to put my own name up in lights so I’m going to enjoy this while it lasts….!) Congrats to Helen Rowlands and Rachel Scott for winning 1st and 2nd Female in this year’s Mini Deeside Night Cup (aka the Short course). Chocolatey prizes featured largely and also vouchers from FieldContinue reading “DNC Mini Night Cup 14/15 successes”

For those of you who didn’t make it to the AGM, here’s a copy of the Chairman’s Report and the 2014 Roll of Honour and other awards. Don’t forget that Ian H is still waiting for your contributions to the 2014 Yearbook to add a little colour to this list of achievements so get scribbling!!Continue reading “2014 Chairman’s Report and Roll of Honour”

Congratulations to these GRAMPs who have been crowned SOL Class Winners for 2014: W10B Morvern Farqhuarson W40L Carolyn McLeod W55S Oonagh Grassie M18 Sasha Chepelin M21L Gordon Hale M35S David Esson M60L Rob Hickling M70L Neil McLean And congratulations too to Tim Gomersall, Katrina McLeod and Calum McLeod on receiving their call up papers forContinue reading “GRAMP SOL Champions 2014 and SEDS call ups for 2015”

….to Tim Gomersall and Anna Wells 2nd Mixed Pair and 6th Overall on the B Mark Stockton and Chris Cowley* 15th on the A (*not a GRAMP member yet but I’m sure Mark gave him the hard sell to pass the time overnight!!) .

RtC Part 1: From the serious athlete having fun pitting himself against the world’s elite to someone just having serious fun, all the Gramps who travelled down to Edinburgh and Stirling over the weekend had a great time in the urban legs of RtC. Sasha is collecting international scalps like there’s no tomorrow especially withContinue reading “Race The Castles”

Gamekeeper turned poacher? Something like that – what I’m trying to say is that hopefully Rob H enjoyed the VHIs as a competitor rather than team manager for a change having handed over the reins last year. This year’s competition was hosted by NGOC at their Caddihoe Chase event. Rob won M60 on the firstContinue reading “VHI 2014 – Scotland come second with Rob’s help”

Five club members have just completed a first aid for sport course. Here’s an action shot from the training day just begging for a caption competition – leave us a comment if you have any ideas! But seriously, thanks to Laura, Helen, Carolyn, Ewen and Adrian for putting themselves forward for this important but unsungContinue reading “First aiders practising their TLC”

CompassSport mag has a behind the technical scenes exposé of how Ali Robertson created his fiendish E-W reversed map for the HHH this year. Sounds like he bashed his brain to create the map far more than we had to bash ours trying to use it. (Are we sympathetic?) In SCORE, Neil McLean waxes lyricalContinue reading “GRAMPs in print”

Congratulations to all those Gramps recovering from the weekend’s exertions at the LAMM in Strathcarron … A class: Tim Gomersall & Ryan McHenry 3rd C class: Jack Gomersall & Anna Wells 2nd D class: Sam & Lesley Gomersall 2nd Elite class: Dave Thomson & Gareth Yardley 1st Vets (of those that didn’t podium) And otherContinue reading “Gramps at the LAMM”

Not many Gramps went down for this year’s Scottish Champs but a high percentage of those who did made their mark and either won their age class or got onto the podium for the top three. We even managed to field three relay teams who did well too. Obviously the cream of the Gramp cropContinue reading “2014 Scottish Orienteering Champions”

As they will no doubt be too modest to tell you themselves and in case you don’t scrutinise the P&J… Carolyn McLeod won the Women’s 10k race at Balmoral yesterday (21st overall) and Naomi won the Secondary Schools race and broke the course record by 15 seconds. Woohoo! Well done girls! Sasha was the secondContinue reading “A few Gramps spotted at Run Balmoral”

If you get bored over the hols here’s a wee orienteering puzzle to keep you occupied. Print out the AGM O Starter map which has Start, Finish and 3 controls already marked on it. Using the info contained in the control descriptions and the given distances between some pairs of controls, see if you canContinue reading “Christmas puzzle”

For those of you unable to make it to the AGM on 7/12/13, here is a copy of the Chairman’s Report plus the 2013 Roll of Honour and GRAMP Champs final standings. Helen Rowlands was also collecting names for 2014 events and has emailed you all with the list of events and officials so far.Continue reading “2013 AGM roundup”

Despite the tough tussocky terrain on the first half of the courses, Team HalfGramp managed 6th place in the 8 Person category of this year’s Interclub Relay but we have to come clean and admit that this was only achieved by cunningly taking up organiser Jess’ offer to hire us some SEDS members to makeContinue reading “Standing on the shoulders of (future) giants”

Well done to Sasha, Carolyn and Neil who all won their classes by several minutes at the recent Scottish Champs at Craigengillan Estate. (And well done to Erik for not coming last!!)

You’ll all have heard about Ash Dieback by now and seen the round robin from BOF that Ian circulated a while ago with advice on how we can help prevent the spread of this and other tree diseases. Here’s a little reminder of how we as orienteers (who are therefore more likely to visit partsContinue reading “Orienteers and tree diseases”

Sam Gomersall, Rob Hickling and John Wilkinson, GRAMP’s top 3 Blue Men, psyching out the opposition Congratulations to all of you who ran for the club in the CompassSport Cup Qualifier at Birsemore 17/2/13. We were narrowly beaten by Maroc who scored that little bit more relatively in the shorter courses, no doubt due toContinue reading “Pipped at the post in CompassSport Cup Qualifier”

GRAMPIAN ORIENTEERS ROLL OF HONOUR 2012 Club events: 4th in Jamie Stevenson Trophy (Alexander, Jack, Struan, Lachlan, Keith, Paul Calum, Katrina, Kate, Josie, Naomi, Laura, Ailsa & Duncan) Area Events: North Area 2nd in Junior Inter Area Championships (Calum, Katrina) International Call-ups: Scottish Vets for VHI – Scotland 2nd under Team Captain Rob Hickling, DaveContinue reading “GRAMP Roll of Honour 2012”

It seems success is just a question of finding your niche event and for Rachel it finally happened last weekend in Barcelona. Having never won anything before (apart from an attendance award for going to every single Summer Series event a few years ago) she suddenly found herself on the No 1 podium in theContinue reading “International success for Rachel in Barcelona!”

Some Oers showing the hill runners what it’s all about. Well done guys! http://www.gariochroadrunners.com/Garioch_Roadrunners/Bennachie_Hill_Race_files/BHR_results2012.xls