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Final details are available on the LVO website for Autumn Trophy 2 at Slieve Garron. There have been some changes from the provisional details. There is an important note in the “fences” section for the green course. Final course lengths, climb and control numbers are up. Parking and social information has been added. Hope to see you there – one of the most beautiful spots in County Down. Geoffrey (planner), Aileen (organiser), Michael (controller)

Attention: event organisers/controllers/planners please help yourself to orienteering event publicity posters, aiming to publicise events. Pick up A number of copies printed on ‘fancy’ paper can be collected from the MOO from the 9th September. Alternatively, you may wish to print your own by downloading a copy here. If printing at home it may be an idea to use poly pockets or laminate the posters if placing outside. Write up Fill in the blank boxes. Location: Name of venue. Date/Time: e.g. Include date, registration opening time, start window and course closure time. Further Information: This could include a variety of things e.g. car-park Read More …

Three to four years ago I built a couple of smartphone apps for orienteering. Since then I’ve gone quiet about them. What happened next? I had thought “not much” but it turns out something happened. First a bit of background. Background What’s dib? My apps “dib” and “dib HQ” were an experiment. The motivation was to reduce the cost of entry to orienteering for small clubs and schools and simplify the process for organisers. Instead of controls at £100 each dib uses “NFC” tags at 50p each (or “QR” codes – those square bar codes you see from time to time). Read More …

Put the hummus aside and treat yourself this weekend. There will cake and soup at the colour event at Garvagh courtesy of the NIOA Junior’s “popup café”. Note to juniors + their families – all donations from juniors and their families will be welcome!

Imagine the NI Colour Series wrapped into a single week but with 2,000-4,000 competitors and you get an idea of what it’s like to attend one of the big summer orienteering festivals in the UK. In odd numbered years Scotland hosts the “Scottish Six Days” and even numbered years alternate between Wales hosting “Creoso” and the Lake District hosting the “Lakes 5 Days”. This year LVO members attended the “Lakes 5 Days”. Centred around Ambleside this year’s event provided a super combination of orienteering plus holiday destination. You can see the locations here. The strength of competition is deep and Read More …

The following changes, announced 13-Aug-2018, have been made to event schedules. The forthcoming NIOA Colour Series at Garvagh on Sat 25th Aug will double as the LVO Club Championship (this replaces the tentative club championship date of 24th Nov). The Autumn Trophy at Rostrevor has been moved from Sat 8th to Sun 9th September.

From Dee Orwin, WEE 10 organiser…welcome back to the WEE series! WEE is back on 1st August at Victoria Park, Belfast. Registration from 18:30, starts from 18:45. Parking is in the park via the underpass. Come back out via the underpass for registration…give way to vehicles, children will need accompanied. Starts are near the bridge over the lake in the park. Hydration will be important – it’s to be a warm evening! Dee

From Dee Orwin, organiser… WEE Series starts again 01 August in Victoria Park.  Details to follow but all times are standard. As ever, volunteers are requested to help out.  In particular the management of registration and downloads. Anyone who feels they could spare some time for this critical post please get in touch with Dee Orwin at: dobox@hotmail,com. Stephen is sorting out the collection of the MOO and assisting with the course. Dee will help cover first aid and starts. Usual tasks need to be sorted, setting up, starts, collection of controls etc…

From Gordon Stephens – Co Ordinator 2018 Tollymore Festival of Orienteering. I hope everyone enjoyed the 2018 Tollymore Festival. A huge personal thanks to everyone who contributed so willingly to what turned out to be a great weekend of orienteering in some very fine weather. Thanks to everyone who turned up and supported the weekend. A special thanks to our main officials. Stephanie Pruzina organised the Friday evening Urban event in Ballynahinch and Helen Pruzina planned some excellent courses.  This new map was created by Stephen Gilmore. Davy Lambe organised Saturdays colour series at Slievenagore (Silent Valley), having to do battle Read More …