Category Archives: events

What a good event! Excellent courses, smooth organisation, a super location for the event centre and parking at Snittlegarth Farm and almost dry weather made for a great day. Even the longish walks to start and finish were relieved by pretty scenery and excellent views. Many thanks to Julie and John who between them organisedContinue reading “Binsey Cumbrian Galoppen – 8th June”

A good number of BL members attended one or both days of the North Yorkshire Urban weekend organised by CLOK. Saturday’s event was at Bedale, a historic town with a large, mostly cobbled, market square. It’s the first time it’s been used for orienteering and courses made the most of the old alleyways and confusinglyContinue reading “CLOK Urban Weekend – 31st May and 1st June”

An event for primary schools was held last week at Brough School organised by BL members Christine, Julie, Gary, Keith and Richard. Nearly 70 children took part. They began with a “cones” exercise, designed to get them used to orientating the map and then moved on to a mini course around the school buildings. AllContinue reading “Schools Event, Brough School – 21st May”

The latest section of Paul Watson’s useful guide to the symbols on maps and description that are not controls is now available here. It covers Out of Bounds areas and explains why they exist, how they are shown and the importance of adhering to them.

Here is Dan’s press report on the weekend…. There was another fantastic 2 days of orienteering in the Lake District over the weekend of 17th/18th May. On the Saturday, Border Liners staged a UK Orienteering League middle distance race on Knipe Scar, between Askham and Bampton. It was BL’s biggest event of the year andContinue reading “Northern Champs Weekend 17th and 18th May”

Here is Dan’s press report on the British Champs Weekend…. The British Orienteering Championships took place over the weekend of 10th/11th May in South Lakeland with a good number Border Liners competing. The individual race was held on Saturday in Grizedale Forest which was as rough and tough as they come. Densely planted plantation madeContinue reading “Thirteen BL Medals at the British Champs”

Only a week to go until the Knipe Scar Middle Distance Event on 17th May, and it’s all looking good. The area itself is looking, and smelling, particularly attractive at the moment with the gorse in full bloom. The bracken is starting to make an appearance, but at present it’s just thinly spaced, green shootsContinue reading “Knipe Scar – Preparations are going well (so far)”

Those prepared to travel for their orienteering had to make a choice last weekend – either the Irish Champs near Coleraine, or the Scottish Champs at Carnoustie. But whichever you chose you couldn’t avoid the sand dunes. Keith and Christine took the Irish option and had a hectic, but very successful time. Only there forContinue reading “Celtic Gold”

After this event was cancelled twice last year because of a wet parking field, it was a big relief to all involved when it finally happened on Saturday (28th April). And it was definitely worth the wait. The weather was dry and sunny with a cooling breeze, the courses were challenging both navigationally and physically,Continue reading “Hallin Fell Event – third time lucky”

After three days of good weather, the JK Relay day was damp and drizzly, with later started getting the worst of the rain. Middleton Park in Leeds was the venue – it provided an excellent change-over area but the orienteering lacked technical challenge, especially on shorter courses. Most courses had an arena run-through part wayContinue reading “JK Relay – drizzle and statistics”