Charlotte Thornton Claims Third Night-O Title of the Season: Two Dans also shine in the nights Charlotte must enjoy eating her carrots as she capped of another season of high consistency in night orienteering by winning the Wessex Night Orienteering League handicap for a fourth consecutive year. The Night League is organised as an annual…
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Junior Club #20: Avon Valley Nature Reserve After a cold day of intermittent heavy rain showers we were granted a break in the rain for this week’s Junior Club session. 12 children came along, mostly regulars but a newcomer in Michael. We based ourselves inside the Five Rivers Leisure Centre but the training was outdoors…
Dinton Park Hosts Three Sarum Events Thanks to the generous permission of the National Trust and local ranger Paul Rowland Sarum had access to Dinton Park for two days (and a night) to put on a variety of events that made full use of the small but beautiful grounds of Philipps House. On the Friday…
Sarum Orienteers’ New Years Day events are well known for being a bit different. Although Copehill Down has attracted high turnouts in recent years high land charges have made this impractical for the time being. This year, Alice Butt took on the task of planning a memorable start to the New Year and devised a…
Penn Wood, one of the largest ancient woodlands in the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, was the venue for this year’s Southern Night Orienteering Championships organised by Thames Valley OC. Much has been made in the news this week about the super-Moon in the night sky but this was surely eclipsed by…
A dark November evening was brightened by the headlights of orienteers who took to the streets of Salisbury to compete in a Wessex Night Orienteering League event organised by Sarum Orienteers. Sarum’s Ian Peirce planned the challenging courses which required runners to visit three separate sets of controls within an hour. All controls in each…
Set up thanks to a grant from Sport England, Sarum’s new Junior Club has just completed a very successful half term of training sessions that have proved a great hit with the children. To date we have had 18 children participate, 12 of those being newcomers. Phil Conway has devised an exciting programme for the…
Brian Fails to Dampen Spirits Concerns that Brian’s violent actions might disrupt the week proved unwarranted in the end. This is Storm Brian, of course, not our esteemed Chairman. By Sunday the winds and rain had abated considerably and it was probably just the slippery mud that caused most grief, especially on the steeper wooded…
Foxbury Bares its Teeth Nearly 300 orienteers gathered at Foxbury, near Wellow on the edge of the New Forest, for this year’s Sarum Galoppen, organised by Sarum Orienteers’ Pat Hart and Kerry Larsen. Foxbury is a National Trust heathland restoration project but the open terrain is deceptive and provides orienteering food for thought. Since it…
The children at Sarum Orienteers Junior Club’s first training session all agreed that orienteering is great fun. Club development Officer Phil Conway took six young enthusiasts, aged from 6 -13, through some fitness exercises before getting down to some basic map reading and navigation skills. After familiarising themselves with the electronic punching system they got…