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Fell-O in Cumbria
Whilst spending the week fell walking in the Lakes, we attended a couple of Lakeland Orienteering Club (LOC) events. The Cumbrian galoppen event at Barrow Fell, near Ulpha, was a chance to test our navigation skills in an upland environment. Esk and Rebecca ran the yellow together (no white) and Lyra the Orange, I did Blue. […]
Posted on Thu, 13th April 2017 by Jolyon Medlock10 Elements Of Orienteering short clip
This is a cool video give it a watch
Posted on Tue, 4th April 2017 by Jason FalconerSpring O in Sussex (in the 90s)
Having recently bought a weekend tent, we plan to attend SO “Sunny Sussex” orienteering weekend in May with 2 days in woodland near Arundel, and the Chichester urban. The last time I attended a multi-day event in Sussex was as an M17 with SAX at a 3-day badge event in 1993 called “Spring in the […]
Posted on Thu, 30th March 2017 by Jolyon MedlockDarting down to Devon
With fantastic spring sunshine and despite it being Mothering Sunday, we were given special dispensation to head down at the last minute to Devon O’s league event at River Dart Country Park, near Ashburton. Given the long journey and clock change, Lyra and I still managed to be first out in the woods. The country […]
Posted on Wed, 29th March 2017 by Jolyon MedlockHarewood Forest
This week the Medlock family, Alan Blanchflower and Bruno Smith went to Harewood Forest, organised by BADO orienteering club, and what an event it was. Harewood Forest is the second largest ancient woodland in Hampshire and we all did very well. Alan came 13th out of 25 on the brown, above the brown standard, well […]
Posted on Tue, 21st March 2017 by Lyra Medlock