Welcome
Welcome to the world of orienteering, where adventure meets skill and nature comes alive! Whether you are a seasoned navigator or a curious beginner, our club Lagan Valley Orienteers offers an exciting way to explore the great outdoors. Join us as we embark on thrilling journeys through forests, up mountains, and around parks, all while honing our navigation skills, making friends, running together and having fun. See “I tried orienteering” on YouTube and continue reading here.
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LVO Spring Cup Castleward |
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Club Meet Mar 26 Sir Thomas & Lady Dixon Park |
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News Headlines
- 🌈🏃♂️ Entries close Saturday for Castleblaney LL/NICS!
- Spring Cup 7 March 2026 updates
- Picked Your Colour Yet?
- 🎉 Lagan Valley Orienteers Turns 50 – Let’s Celebrate in Style! 🎉
- 🏁 Entries Now Open – LVO’s Spring Cup! 🌿
News
Here are the first 100 hundred words of the latest posts to LVO’s news feed. Please note that hyperlinks appear as plain text in these snippets – click the heading to see the full post with working hyperlinks. The news page is here.
- 🌈🏃♂️ Entries close Saturday for Castleblaney LL/NICS! - ⏰Entries close Saturday 28/02 at 18:00 for the Castleblaney Leinster League / NI Colour Series event, courtesy of Fingal Orienteers. 📍 Location: Hope Castle, Castleblayney 🗓 Date: Sunday 1 March ⏰ Starts: 11:00am – 2:00pm 🔗 Full details and registration available here: https://www.orienteering.ie/fixtures/castleblaney-2/ Let’s show our appreciation the best way we know how — by turning up in BIG numbers and making it a fantastic day of racing! 💪🔥 Read More ...
- Spring Cup 7 March 2026 updates - Apologies for the delay, but I have now been able to add some course lengths and climbs to the details of the Spring Cup. If you did not know, Castle Ward is at the top of a big hill that goes down towards Strangford Lough- but it is worth it for the views. We have been very fortunate to agree a reduced National Trust entry fee for this event. This is available to LVO members and NIOA members at the reduced rate of £6.00 per adult person and £3.00 per under 18s. You will need to provide evidence of Club/British Orienteering… Read More ...
- Picked Your Colour Yet? - With the colour event season about to get under way you should, by now, have decided which colour you're going to target, whether for Colour Series points or for Standards achievement. To help with the latter the Colour Standards table has been reset for 2026. The 2024 results have been removed (they are now outside the 12-month window in which your best 3 results contribute), the "current standard" column is based on that window, the "2026 standard" column will start to fill as results come in and early 2025 results drop out (it replaces the 2025 standard which is now… Read More ...
- 🎉 Lagan Valley Orienteers Turns 50 – Let’s Celebrate in Style! 🎉 - Next year, Lagan Valley Orienteers hits a major milestone - the big 5-0! And if ever a club deserved to celebrate properly, it's ours. Thanks to some impressive detective work by Harold White, we now have the documentary proof: the very first official organised meeting of LVO took place in Alan’s house on 17 February 1977, with Bill Simpson elected as secretary. From a living room meeting to five decades of forest adventures — not a bad trajectory! So, how do you mark half a century of maps, mud and mispunches? 🌲 O-Ringen, Anyone? One ambitious suggestion is a club trip… Read More ...
About Orienteering
Videos: Introduction to Orienteering | Setting the map | Using the Compass | Attack Points | Aiming Off | Large Contour Features | Route Choice | Intricate Contours.
Websites: Learn Orienteering (e.g. map colours, legends, control symbols and much else besides) | O-training.net (a resource for orienteering training).
Read about the different types of orienteering here and you’ll find some tips here.