Check out the NI Orienteering website for all the info on the upcoming series of Autumn Workshops 🙂 Beat The Planner – NI Autumn Workshop Series

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)

The NISeries tables following the Garvagh event and the Colour Standards table following Kilbroney can be found in their respective Public Folders (the NISeries tables are also available on the NIOA website).

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 …

Massive thanks to everyone involved in WEE Series 2018.  Event officials, on-the-night volunteers, behind-the-scenes folk, and of course all our lovely participants.  Personally, I had a blast and I didn’t even run a single one! See you at running training this Wednesday (Malone RFC), Explorers this Saturday (Valley V36) or Kilbroney this Sunday (Autumn Trophy event).  Non members welcome to come along to all of these and we’d love to see new faces trying out weekend orienteering. Here are your prizewinners; if your name is in italics then come claim your prize off me (Susan) and please expect cheesy photo 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!

WEE 13 is heading out West for its annual trip to the sticks, so this is your chance to come and find out what we get up to out amongst the Orchards. So, to all of you looking to make the journey – Welcome to the County of Apples. If you believe all you read many of you might be expecting to see loads of cones and a maze. You may even be secretly looking forward to it. So who am I to disappoint? But that’s not what we’re about. You can expect much more than that out here, as Read More …