Jan 2025 – Border Liners Orienteering Club

Helping at Events – FAQs

Maybe in the BL News Email you have seen the request “Helpers Needed” for a BL event and wondered what would be involved….. How would I know what to do?You will always be given good instructions by the Event Organiser. It doesn’t matter if you haven’t been orienteering very long, or haven’t helped before, thereContinue reading “Helping at Events – FAQs”

Penrith Beacon Event – 18th January

On a lovely winter’s morning over 120 competitors, from the very fit and experienced to total novices enjoyed an excellent event at Beacon Hill on the north edge of Penrith. The event was based at the Golf Club and indoor registration, download, results and refreshments were much appreciated by everyone. Walking through the plush clubhouseContinue reading “Penrith Beacon Event – 18th January”

Spine Race – Congratulations to John

BL member John Ferris-Worth completed the Montane Spine Challenger North Race early on Friday morning in Kirk Yetholm, having started nearly four days earlier in Hawes. It’s a distance of 160 miles with 5300m of ascent, along the Pennine Way, and John took 91 hours finishing 56th of the 115 starters. He’s now safely backContinue reading “Spine Race – Congratulations to John”

“Elevate Your Fitness” – BO’s new Recruitment Campaign

British Orienteering have just launched a new campaign which “aims to draw broader awareness of the sport across our target demographic of 16–40-year-olds that may not have heard of orienteering before, and give a different perspective and perception of the sport to a wider audience.” Full details, and the available resources are here. This isContinue reading ““Elevate Your Fitness” – BO’s new Recruitment Campaign”

Penrith Beacon Event – six reasons why you need to come!

1. At this time of year, especially after the recent freeze has wilted the old bracken, Beacon Hill is a lovely area. The woodland on the flat top is often likened to Scottish, or even Scandinavian forest. (Map from previous event available here) 2. The parking is on hard-standing at the golf club so there’sContinue reading “Penrith Beacon Event – six reasons why you need to come!”

British Orienteering Webinars

Did you know that British Orienteering hold frequent webinars on a wide variety of subjects? They are free and open to all BO members. Some are quite specialised (“The BO Insurance Policy” won’t be for everyone!) but others are of general interest (“Back to basics: Putting the ‘thinking’ component back into orienteering” was a goodContinue reading “British Orienteering Webinars”

Gelt Woods – Worth the Wait

The Gelt Woods event, postponed from last month by Storm Darragh, took place on Saturday 4th January in calm but cold weather. The officials at any event deserve appreciation, but even more so here where a lot of the work had to be done twice. For instance all the controls had already been put outContinue reading “Gelt Woods – Worth the Wait”