Grampian Orienteers are pleased to stage a Colour Coded event at Balmedie the day after the Scottish Night Champs at Balmoral. Should round out the weekend nicely with complete contrast of intricate open sand dunes following on from the urban sprint action at Ballater and the Night Champs in classic Deeside forest, both being hostedContinue reading “Balmedie Sun 26th Feb”
Category Archives: Events/Results
DNC Glen Dye Wed 1st Feb
Technical TD5 orienteering in generally runnable forest with some complex topography.Undergrowth and bracken has been nicely squashed by the snow before Christmas.Map updated for Scottish Champs in May 2022. Courses: Long 5.5 km / 185 m, Medium 3.4 km / 120 m Seniors £5, Students/Juniors £2.50 cash(no contactless payment because of poor mobile signal) ParkingContinue reading “DNC Glen Dye Wed 1st Feb”
DNC Elrick Wed 18th Jan Results
Results RG
Monday 2nd Jan HHH Duthie Park & Ferryhill Results
Many thanks for all who attended our Hogmany Hangover Handicap event at Duthie Park this morning. Many thanks to Sarah Wallace for planning the Snakes & Ladders format Score, and to Ros & Hugh for the Social Party at their abode afterwards! Below is the link to the results not including the bonus points fromContinue reading “Monday 2nd Jan HHH Duthie Park & Ferryhill Results”
Balmedie Sun 11th Dec 2022 POSTPONED
😦 Regrettably, we have had to make the decision to postpone the Balmedie event on Sunday due to somewhat treacherous icy conditions on the path network and car park. It would not be safe for competitors presently and a Yellow Met Office warning remains in place currently right up to Sunday. The event will beContinue reading “Balmedie Sun 11th Dec 2022 POSTPONED”
GRAMP AGM/Social Sat 10th Dec
Venue – Rubislaw Church Centre, Beaconsfield Place (it has a car park and lift access). what3words: glory.prefer.panels Time – 6pm prompt Who – everyone welcome We’ve added a virtual element to this for those that live so far away that travelling makes no sense given the conditions. You shuold have received an email from ZoeContinue reading “GRAMP AGM/Social Sat 10th Dec”
DNC Dunnottar Wed 7th Dec Results
Results and RG Thanks Davids for setting up and collecting in in the snow flurries. What a mudfest that was! Now I know that TD5 = Transcendent Dubs Grade 5.
DNC Foggieton Wed 23rd Nov Results
Results RouteGadget
Hazlehead DNC 9/11/22 Results
Results RouteGadget
GRAMP Saturday Training Event 10th Dec CANCELLED
Saturday 10th December: Hazlehead. CANCELLED DUE TO ICY CAR PARK AND PATHS. This was to have been the day before our Regional event at Balmedie but that’s also postponed to Feb due to icy car park and paths. GRAMP AGM still going ahead on Saturday night. We’ve added a virtual element to this for those that liveContinue reading “GRAMP Saturday Training Event 10th Dec CANCELLED”
Gramp coaching Tues 8.30pm via Teams – come and join our popular virtual coaching experiment!
GRAMP Virtual Training Post-run analysis and Training via Teams – Tuesdays 8.30pm These seem to have been well received and there has been some good O banter on Tuesday nights so we will continue to offer these sessions through the winter months. HOWEVER PLEASE NOTE NEW TIME. A reminder these sessions are open to all, whether youContinue reading “Gramp coaching Tues 8.30pm via Teams – come and join our popular virtual coaching experiment!”
DNC Hazlehead Wed 9th Nov
Hazlehead is back… and not just in the park this time so using mostly the golf course area and some of the few wooded parts that have not been affected by the storms. Although traffic will be minimal if any, please take care at road crossings and note the under-16s should be accompanied to ensure their safety. Continue reading “DNC Hazlehead Wed 9th Nov”
DNC starts 2nd Nov
The Deeside Night Cup kicks off at Banchory East (urban) this year, then runs most Wed evenings right through to February so plenty of chances to brush up your night O skills ready for the Scottish Champs which are going to be at Pannanich 25th Feb 2023. GRAMP and MAROC take turns to host DNCsContinue reading “DNC starts 2nd Nov”
Crathes Sun 2nd Oct 2022 Results
ResultsRouteGadget BOF Ranking Points
Urban Sprint @ Seaton Park and Hillhead Student Village 31/8/22 Results
Beautiful sunny evening with great courses planned by Ros. Many thanks to Rob, Bob & Hugh for collecting controls and David for laptop duties. Results RouteGadget
Urban Sprint @ Aberdeen Uni 24/8/22 Results
Results from another fun course with plenty of route choices.Routegadget Thanks to Dennis for organising, David for ‘puting and results, and Aileen, Ros and Hugh.
Westhill 17th Aug 2022 Urban Sprint results
Here are the results for last night’s tour around Westhill courtesy of the Grassies. Hope you’re all getting the Urban bug as there are two more events lined up for you, at Aberdeen Uni/Old Aberdeen and Seaton Park. Watch this space for details soon. Westhill Results – 2022-08-17.pdf Westhill Results – 2022-08-17.xls
Urban Sprint @ Westhill 17/8/22
Next up, the Grassies are hosting us at Westhill. One course 3.4km Orange/Medium standard with an option to shorten it to 3.3km (That’s as the crow flies – actual distance covered in urban is about 1.5 times further and Donald tells me optimum route at Westhill is 5.1km) MapRun so you’ll need a phoneContinue reading “Urban Sprint @ Westhill 17/8/22”
Cove Bay 10th Aug 2022 Urban Sprint results
Really enjoyable course planned by Eric, ably assisted by Alison. Thanks to Alison, Dennis and Sam for collecting controls. https://www.sportident.co.uk/results/GRAMP/2022/Cove Routegadget
Balgownie 29th June Results
Below are the results from tonight’s event at Danestone. Many Thanks to Sam & Lesley for planning and to David for helping collect controls afterwards. Good luck to Sam Griffin who is off in the next few weeks to Portugal to the Junior World Champs, and to David who is off to Italy for theContinue reading “Balgownie 29th June Results”
Balmedie 22nd June + BBQ Results
Many thanks to Neil for planning the event and to Ian/Farran/Sam & Lesley for helping collect controls. Easy 1 Emily Arthur 31.082 George Esson 35.32 Short Tech 1 David Esson 30.062 Aileen Salway 31.253 Ros Nicholson 36.53 (cycled from Aberdeen)4 Chris Aust 37.055 Samantha & Kailin 59.486 Lennon Atchison 76.237 Paul Atchison 76.28 Long TechContinue reading “Balmedie 22nd June + BBQ Results”
Westburn & Victoria Parks Wed 15th Jun Results
Many thanks to Tim & Zoe for running the event on the night and to Sam Griffin our recently crowned British Sprint Champion who planned (lucky devil is in Majorca on a cycling holiday at moment!) Thanks to Bob and Aileen for helping collect controls at the end and David Esson for computing. Results P.S.Continue reading “Westburn & Victoria Parks Wed 15th Jun Results”
Foggieton Wed 9th Jun Results
Below are the results from tonights event at Foggieton. Many thanks to George for helping put controls out, and Sam G, Zoe and Bob for helping collect the controls. Easy1 Logan Thompson 15.382 Emily Robertson 20.203 Sophie DePasquale 24.414 Helen Greenwood 25.225 Owen DePasquale 26.14Short Tech1 Olivia Coman 36.022 Ros Nicholson 41.093 Stuart Hall 43.504Continue reading “Foggieton Wed 9th Jun Results”
Duthie Park & Ferryhill Wed 1st Jun Results
Sorry about the delay in posting results – too busy celebrating Saturday’s and Schools Championship results – oh, and Zoe’s first serious orienteering race in far too many years – and then work got in the way this morning.Better late than never! Results P.S. You’ll have noticed the website is getting a bit of aContinue reading “Duthie Park & Ferryhill Wed 1st Jun Results”
Scottish Championships 2022 Individual @ Glen Dye Results
Final Results RouteGadget (done by course rather than age class so check your map)BOF results (ranking points) Big congrats to all the Champions for 2022 and the Gramp Team who made it all happen today.And good luck to all those relaying at Sluie tomorrow.
18/5/22 Hazlehead Summer Series Results
Below are the results from tonight’s event at Hazlehead Park. Was a gorgeous evening, and everyone seems to have enjoyed themselves. Interestingly we have a few participants who had equal times. Not often we get that! Many thanks to Tim and George for putting the controls out and Tim, Bob and George for collecting theContinue reading “18/5/22 Hazlehead Summer Series Results”
Balmedie Wed 27th April Forest(not) Sprint Results
Results RouteGadget Great evening at Balmedie. Many thanks to Tim for planning and Bob and Sam for helping collect controls and David for results service. (P.S. Foggieton RouteGadget is up now too.)
Foggieton Forest Sprint 13th April Results
Results RouteGadget A dry but chilly night saw old and new test their wits on the twists and turns of the many paths and linear features at Foggieton. Many thanks to David for all his IT wizardry, and to Gareth for helping with control collecting (and to those who also offered to help – alwaysContinue reading “Foggieton Forest Sprint 13th April Results”
Tollohill Wed 30th March Forest Sprint Results
https://www.sportident.co.uk/results/GRAMP/2022/FSTollohillRouteGadget Many thanks to Ros for planning a great wee course and to Hugh, Helen and Gareth for helping collect controls
DNC 2021-22 Final Results
Final resultsThis season’s DNC final event took place at Crathes with award winning courses from Ros who managed to weave everyone between all the wind blow and also scooped First Lady in the Mini DNC in the process. About 30 other Gramps have been out enjoying the dark side on Wednesdays and three have aContinue reading “DNC 2021-22 Final Results”
DNC @ Crathes 16th Feb Results
Results RouteGadget(If you think folk took odd routes bear in mind the actual map used on the night was covered in pink crosses indicating felled/windblow patches.)
DNC Tyrebagger/Elrick Hill Wed 2nd Feb Results
Results for tonight’s Night O at Elrick Hill https://www.sportident.co.uk/results/GRAMP/2022/ElrickRouteGadget Many thanks to Murray for planning it👍
GMC 2023 @?????? 7th/8th October
Calling all you loyal GMC fans out there (and the ones who haven’t yet discovered the delights of Scotland’s Friendly Sociable Winter Mountain Marathon but who surely will if you tell everyone about it please). We can’t reveal where yet but we can reveal when. Drum rrrrrrrroll….. Ta-da!!
DNC Foggieton Wed 19th Jan Results
Results and splits Routegadget Many thanks to John Lang for the dizzying whirl round the woods.
Balmedie DNC Weds 5th Jan Results
Chilly but fantastic night at Balmedie tonight. Many thanks to Julian for planning, and Julian & David for collecting controls afterwards👍 Results RouteGadget
Hogmanay Hangover Handicap 1st Jan 2022 @ Hazlehead
Many thanks to Team Esson for planning/’puting and Rachel, Helen and Pete for Control collecting. Results and splitsRoutegadget Turns out we could have had some sort of social outdoors as it was so warm this morning. Plenty folk spotted picnicking in the park and also bumped into some old ex-Gramp friends, Gordon and Ruth, whoContinue reading “Hogmanay Hangover Handicap 1st Jan 2022 @ Hazlehead”
DNC Templars Park Wed 22nd Dec Results
Results and splitsRouteGadget not quite sure how crazy this is going to look but will be fun playing it back!! Many thanks to Dave Kirk for the courses and to Lachlan and David E for helping collect controls.
DNC Tollohill Wed 24th Nov
Results and splitsRouteGadget Thanks to David Esson for planning and Drew Tivendale for assistance in collecting afterwards. Looking at the spiders’ webs seems like the “wee tip” re checking numbers was a good one. Good luck to anyone trying to suss out a training run in the area by looking at Strava traces!!And good luckContinue reading “DNC Tollohill Wed 24th Nov”
DNC Hazlehead Wed 10th Nov Results
Fantastic nights orienteering at Hazlehead tonight. Great courses which caught a few people out planned by our W12 junior Samantha McDonald. Well done Samantha👍 Results are now available to view https://www.sportident.co.uk/results/GRAMP/2021/DNCHazlehead BOF results RouteGadget
Abz Uni Urban Sprint 29/9/21 Results
Thank you all for attending tonight’s event. Below is the link to the results. Many thanks to Dave Kirk for putting on a fun challenging event. https://www.sportident.co.uk/results/GRAMP/2021/OldAberdeenUrban
Westburn & Victoria Parks Urban Sprint 22/9/21 Results
Wow! Never seen the Westburn so burny as tonight or the grass so waterlogged. Almost needed a snorkel in parts. Thanks to Sam and Tim for doing the soggy honours tonight. https://www.sportident.co.uk/results/GRAMP/2021/WestburnUrbanSprintResults I also uploaded to RouteGadget to see what it would make of the voided section for the road crossing and seems to copeContinue reading “Westburn & Victoria Parks Urban Sprint 22/9/21 Results”
Westhill Urban Sprint 15/9/21 Results
Thanks to Oonagh and Donald for organising the Westhill leg of the series. Donald is so taken by the ease of making courses and timing etc that he’s going to introduce his DofE group to MapRun. Results – not sure but I think the folk recorded as mispunches are self-declared rather than just failing toContinue reading “Westhill Urban Sprint 15/9/21 Results”
SHI Relays and SOL Results Balmedie 4/9/21
Here are the results from todays event at Balmedie Beach. https://www.sportident.co.uk/results/GRAMP/2021/SHIRelays2021 https://www.sportident.co.uk/results/GRAMP/2021/SOL2021Balmedie Many thanks to all the Gramp helpers and in particular to Zoe Griffin ably assisted by Tim (Planner), Sarah Dunn (Controller), and Sam & Lesley Gomersall. (Organisers) Routegadget SOL and SHI Relays BOF results & points (updated 13/9/21)
Templars 18/8/21 Results
Great night with a lovely BBQ afterwards enjoyed by everyone. Thanks to planner Tim Griffin and Scouts for use of the fire pits. That wraps up our Summer Series. Great to see such big numbers turning out regularly and welcome to all the newcomers who have joined the club recently as a result. There’ll nowContinue reading “Templars 18/8/21 Results”
Cove Urban Sprint 8/9/21 Results
Seems like everyone enjoyed themselves this evening even if one or two got fooled by incoming texts or emails making them think they had hit a control when they heard a ping. Others said they couldn’t hear the pings very well at all but we’re reliably informed that bluetoothed ear phones solve that problem –Continue reading “Cove Urban Sprint 8/9/21 Results”
Glen Dye Wed 21/7/21 Results
Many thanks to George and David for planning/computing and ace control collectors Bob Daly, Helen Rowlands and Gareth Yardley. Short (Easy) Results SplitsMedium Results SplitsShort Tech Results Splits Long Tech Results SplitsRouteGadget Don’t forget to check for ticks and that we now take a break for the Scottish 3+3 Days untilTyrebagger on 11th Aug TBCTemplarsContinue reading “Glen Dye Wed 21/7/21 Results”
Mulloch – now that the party’s over
Photo taken at 2110hrs while collecting controls. Thanks to Eric Lovie for giving us a guided tour of all the boulders tonight in a fast and furious control picking style and David Esson for computing and control collecting.
Mulloch Wed 14/7/21 Results
Easy Results SplitsMedium Results Splits Short Tech Results Splits Long Tech Results Splits Routegadget Thanks to Eric Lovie planner and David Esson computing and control collection “Disgusting, nefarious, sneaky, crafty…” no, not the planner, ticks!! While you were waiting for the results, did you check yourself for ticks as loads of the wee critters outContinue reading “Mulloch Wed 14/7/21 Results”
Scolty Wed 30/6/21 Results
Short (Easy) Results SplitsMedium Results Splits Short Tech Results Splits Long Tech Results Splits RouteGadget (this version of the map doesn’t show recently felled area to NW of car park) Thanks to Ian Hamilton for setting us a real challenge tonight certainly towards the start of the Long Tech. Good practice for those of usContinue reading “Scolty Wed 30/6/21 Results”
GMC 2021 Lochnagar 6th/7th November
GMC 2023 dates will be 7th/8th October. Can’t say where yet but stick the dates in your diaries now. Wow! That was a wild one, eh? Many thanks to everyone for all your kind comments regarding courses and organisation and congrats to the winners and also to those who found time to pause for aContinue reading “GMC 2021 Lochnagar 6th/7th November”