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Photos from the Scottish 6 Days and the Seven Sevens can be found here. As usual, let Philip know if you would like photos of yourself removed.

This Sunday, to celebrate International Day of Dogs, Tollymore Orienteers are hosting a pawesome event for you and your furry best mate 🐶 🐕 Sunday 25th August 2019🐕 Tollymore Forest Park (park entry fees apply)🐕 Starts from 1-1:30pm from the monument (pictured in comments!)🐕 Doggie treats at controls #trackdowntreats 🐕 £5 per map (Just £3 for members) 🐕 Super Fun Score course on offer – as many controls as you and the pup can find in one hour! Join the pack – this is not to be sniffed at! *Well behaved humans also welcome* 🏃🏾‍♀️🏃‍♂️🚶🏻‍♀️🚶🏾‍♂️ Can you spot your doggo in the pics?! Please like and share with all your woof woofs. Read More …

LVO, including the Tollymore and Orchard County hubs, has a full programme of orienteering related activity planned from the end of the WEE series right through to mid-December. All the details will appear on the LVO site and on Facebook – all you have to do is keep Wednesdays (and the occasional Monday and Tuesday) free and come to enjoy an evening’s orienteering related exercise every week. More to follow!!

Thank you to everyone who helped out yesterday – members, friends, family and guests. Lots of positive feedback coming through. Hopefully you all enjoyed yourselves as much as the participants. Gordon Stephens From webmaster…a special mention must go to our very own Mark Stephens who won the NIMRA race – in a time under 4 hours!

Venue: GORTALUGHANY, Co. Fermanagh  NIOS Sheet 26 – Grid Ref H168300 54.21889,   -7.743736 Directions: From Enniskillen follow road signs for SLIGO (A4). After approx. 2 miles take a LEFT turn on to the (A32) towards Florencecourt and SWANLINBAR. Continue on the (A32) – past the turn to Florencecourt – then approx. a further 3 miles. Look for a turn to the RIGHT on to a minor road signposted GORTALUGHANY VIEWPOINT (‘O’ signs also). This road winds uphill. It has steep zigzag bends towards the end just before reaching the car parking. This will be at the small viewpoint car park Read More …

All the best to LVO members amongst the 3,594 entries at the Scottish Six Days, starting today at Auchingarrich. Each day shall have live streaming and tracking from one or more courses. Today it’s the M55L/W55L. Our own Stephen Gilmore is scheduled to start at 13:42 on M55L and has been selected to be tracked – so pit your wits against Stephen’s route choice. Links to day 1 streaming and tracking are here.

Would August’s event Planners and Organisers please note that LVO Map Printing Services will not be available from 1st to 18th August.

The NISeries Tables have been updated following the Slieve Croob round and have been sent for publication on the NIOA web site but you can get an early peek here at “Resources>LVO Public Folders>NI Series”. With 4 events to count and 3 events remaining you need to take care which class you enter in the autumn to ensure that you are in contention come the end-of-year.

The colour standards table has been updated following the event on Slieve Croob last Saturday. It can be found at “Resources/LVO Public Folders/Colour Standards”. There are 2 reasons for having a look. The first is to confirm whether or not you achieved a standard on Saturday – the standard time shown in the results is not necessarily correct as the criteria used to calculate it is not that used for NI colour standard achievement (e.g. M & W are not treated seperately). The second is for a more serious reason – the table lists all the current and lapsed members; Read More …