First of all I hope all Wessex Orienteering Club members (and other blog readers) had a peaceful and relaxing Christmas and managed to get out in the brief spells of sunshine between days of low mist and gloom. This is a time when we focus our attention to other aspects of our life, and start to […]

Happy Holidays! My monthly post is around night league events this time, end of the Autumn and into the last quarter of the year outdoors. Wednesday last week a few of us headed up to Winchester for the Night League Event 11. It was a filthy night and despite this 52 participants. 4 Years ago […]

This weekend This weekend there was an event organised by Sarum, and WSX had a good turn out (8 club members), putting in some good results. The best was Roger winning the Score. Here is Jason’s report (and map) on the green. Good time bogtrotting on Dur hill. Tussock and bog. Fastest to control 11 […]

This was my first weekend without orienteering since September, so timely for me to provide the weekly update! SOC King’s Garn First up: Saturday morning SOC event at King’s Garn and Castle Malwood in the New Forest. ‘Sunshine, mud, plenty of wet areas’ were order of the day in a lovely area of the Forest, home […]

We’ve decided to share out the weekly ‘chat’, so Jason, Jolyon, Lyra and myself are going to take it in turns to write something up every week, if all goes to plan. So this is my turn. After a flurry of events in recent  weeks,  there’s actually not much to report on this week. The […]