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NEW TO ORIENTEERING?
Welcome! Click here for some more info on orienteering but the best way to find out is to come and try it out at one of the events listed below (except the DNC Deeside Night Cup events which aren't recommended for complete beginners) or get a map pack for one of our Permanent Orienteering Courses.
If you have any ???s then contact us.
 

BENNACHIE SEMI-PERMANENT COURSES
The FCS at Bennachie put out semi-permanent orienteering courses  in the woods surrounding the visitor centre. This is like a Permanent Orienteering Course - in that you can get a map with suggested courses from the Rangers' office at Bennachie any time during their normal opening hours - but the courses are changed every so often.

CIRCUIT TRAINING ON MONDAYS
Currently at different venues outside  - details.
 

 
Updated 22/7/10 with more details and   online entries now open

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BOC2008 RESULTS
As the BOC2008 website has been closed down, Individual and Relay results have been transferred here.

CONTACT US
Web              Rachel Scott
Chairman       Pete Lawrence
Treasurer       Kevin Reynard
Secretary      Ian Hamilton      
Mapping        Tim Griffin
Emit kit         Rob Hickling
Fixtures   Anne Hickling/Allan Rae/Adrian Will
Membership Sec   Jayne MacGregor
Newsletter     Rachel Scott
NB To try to avoid spammers, I've put ! marks around the @ in these email addresses - you'll need to remove these before sending.

GRAMP Data Privacy Policy
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QI
How does the OS work?
How did it work in 1953?

Next time you injure yourself on a branch think about this... and stop complaining!

Membership spread

Streetview O If you liked Ewen's link to the OS map identification quizzes (can't remember what it was called - can you?) then try this urban equivalent.

BBC Scotland 'Out of Doors' podcast

Grampian Mountain Challenge 13th/14th Nov
This new and exciting event will challenge both elite mountain marathoners and any orienteer who likes big days on the hill! With a few fresh twists to the tried and tested mountain marathon format, we bring the full-on two-day event to Deeside.
Put this weekend in your diary.

Online entries now open.   More (updated) details here.

11/8 Person Relay – 4th September at Crathes Castle, Deeside
The 11 Person Relay for larger clubs and the 8 Person Relay for small clubs will take place at Crathes Castle (NO 735968) on Saturday 4th September 2010 by kind permission of the National Trust for Scotland.
For more details and links to entry forms etc click here. Entries should be received by the 27^th August 2010. There will be no entry on the day for relay teams.

GRAMPS - tell Evgueni asap if you want to run in one of our teams - legs of different length and technicality available so let him know your standard (Orange to Green) and he'll make sure you're given something suitable. 01224 868304.

Summer Series  
Every Wednesday evening until 1st September. 18:30 to 19:30 registration, courses close at 20:00; £2 Seniors, £1 Juniors; three courses from short and easy to a few km and as hard as we can make it for that area.
Ideal intro for friends and family so bring a crowd and get out and enjoy those summer evenings.
Check the Events Page for the full list of venues and map links to help you find them or download this handy list but check the website before setting out in case things have changed.

Summer Series 2010 Results    Hazlehead now added
Summer Series points so far
Summer Series Awards so far

Extra competition for those who did the hard or technical course at Tollo Hill:
Can anyone identify the archeological feature which was Control 9? Tell me if you think you know the answer and I'll pass it on to Ewen.

And speaking of competitions, anyone got the answer to the question in the Junior section of the last Telegramp? Again, tell me and I'll check with Neil. Any correct answer received wins a lavish prize.

Apologies to the International Federation Biathlonorienteering (IBOF) for causing any confusion with our previous references to the World Orienteering Biathlon on this site. Luboš Přibyl, Chairman of United Biathlon Orienteering, sent me an email advising me that the 3rd World Orienteering Biathlon is, in fact, being held July 30th - August 1st in the Czech Republic. Bad timing on our part as maybe folk have been searching online and diverted here and the last thing we wanted to do was cause confusion or offence.

Just to clarify, our event involved darts not guns and was a fun celebration of the induction of Jon Duncan into Edinburgh University's Sport Hall of Fame. Jon, who is an honorary member of GRAMP, staged a similar event in 2002. We have retitled our event to avoid further confusion. For further info on real Biathlonorienteering check www.biathlon.dk or www.biathlonorienteering.se.

Scottish Oridarteering Champs
Well done to the 10 game souls with enough energy left to chance their throwing arms in the 1st Scottish Oridarteering Champs at Aberdeen University, held to celebrate JD's induction into Edinburgh University Sport Hall of Fame. They all received lavish prizes as promised and we have four new champions in the club:
Mens' Scottish Oridarteering Champion - Tim Gomersall
Womens' Scottish Oridarteering Champion - Katrina McLeod
Mens' Veteran Scottish Oridarteering Champion - Ian Hamilton
Womens' Veteran Scottish Oridarteering Champion - Sheena Farquhar

(JD)2C rankings after Sluie  Click here  (Posted 4/7)

Two more events have been resheduled to bring the number of events counting towards the Jon Duncan Junior Deeside Cup and the GRAMP Champs to the full quota of 10 again. Both in August which is usually the quiet month for O events so make sure you take advantage of the opportunity and come along to Creag Choinnich (MAROC) on Sunday 22nd and Glen Dye on Sunday 29th.

Ewen Rennie spotted leading Stonehaven Half Marathon!  

Paul Duley was captured in action too - click on the inset for the full size photo.
Congratulations to Carolyn McLeod for avoiding "the wifie hanging out a window taking photos" and ultimately winning the Ladies race in 1:26:16 some 12 minutes ahead of Paul.

Reminder about ticks  
Now it's summer, make sure you check for ticks after running or orienteering through undergrowth. They can carry and pass on Lyme Disease if they manage to take a bite but providing you remove them asap it's highly unlikely you'll contract this. The SOA website as a good page of info about them and don't worry, NASA are on the case!

SOL 4 Scolty   Results by course   Results by age class   Splits     
                       Routegadget     String course    Winsplits
                       Organiser's comments and lost property

Junior Inter-area 2010 Overall Results - updated 9/6/10  
                                   JIA Relay results   JIA Relay Splits

Just been looking at the comments on RG - well done to Angela Dixon for admitting to a spot of mid-course geocaching up Scolty tower! Did you find it?  And looks like Evelyn Mason enjoyed herself too : )

Results by course now updated to include Colour Standard times.

Balmedie results  (Posted 10/5)

Results/splits  Routegadget

Well that was more like it wasn't it?
None of that pesky snow nor even a drop of rain, just lots of sun and happy orienteers milling about having survived the Dunes Experience.

Some seemed to get on better than others judging by Sarah's comments: "All seemed to go pretty smoothly and courses were good. I sat near 166 for a while watching competitors. The amazing thing was that of the 10 people who came into the control, only 1 was meant to be there - the other 9 were ~250m off line from either 165 or 167!"
Thanks Chris for taxing the old brain cells so much and also everyone else for organising or helping out; if you ever need an impromptu fire patrol, I can recommend the Archibalds (MAROC.)

More GRAMP successes - this time at British Champs  (Posted 4/5)
Well done to Sasha for bagging the M14A British Orienteering Champion title and the GRAMP Trotters - aka Sasha, Dad and Duncan Grassie - for getting a very creditable 5th place in the Mens Short Relay.

Neil's hard work recognised  (Posted 03/5)

(Sorry - been meaning to put this up for some time but kept forgetting before logging off each time.)

Ultra-GRAMP  (Posted 26/4)
So you think that the London Marathon looked like hard work?  Gramp member Gary Morrison completed the Highland Fling ultra-marathon yesterday (Sat 24th).  The distance is a double marathon - 53 miles, from Milngavie to Tyndrum along the paths and tracks of the southern part of the West Highland Way.  His time was 12 hours 20 mins, which looks pretty respectable to me!  This was after Gary completed the A class at the Highlander Mountain Marathon two weeks ago, and the Deeside 33 Ultra Marathon (33 miles) the week before that.  Results for the Highland Fling will be posted at: http://www.highlandflingrace.org/  and the D33 race results are at http://deesidewayultra.webnode.com/.
Will Ali and Sean will be able to satisfy this man's lust for kms with their Grampian Mountain Challenge?

Monday training sessions move outdoors again  (Posted 29/3)
Starting April 19th, the Monday night training sessions will restart at 7pm at Duthie Park and then move around to different locations around Aberdeen. Here's a list of provisional dates and venues but be warned that these may have to be changed at short notice, so check here before coming along each week.

WELL DONE US!!   (Posted 17/3)
GRAMP has been named as British Orienteering Club of the Year!

This is due in no small part to Anne Hickling's hard work in development of both the club and the sport's profile locally over the past few years, for which she has received a British Orienteering Service Award.

And as if that wasn't enough, Oleg Chepelin has been selected for the 2010 World Class Squad.
Well done to them both and also the rest of us for helping make GRAMP such a success!
How shall we celebrate?

Scottish Sprint Champs   (Updated 9/3)
King's Buildings campus in Edinburgh on Saturday 6th made a brilliantly intricate area with plenty of blind alleys to catch folk out. Change of format this year and rather than individual age classes there were three categories of trophy; Junior, Senior and Vets and Tim Gomersall is the Scottish Junior Men's Sprint Champ of 2010. Well done Tim!

Night Champs   (Posted 8/3)
The British Night Championships took place later on on the 6th on the North Face of the Pentlands with slippery melting snow on steep slopes, evil gorse bushes to dodge and the occasional cameraman looming out of the dark as it was filmed for (probably) the next Adventure Show programme at the end of the month.
M18  Tim G 3rd, M21L Oleg 2nd (is he GRAMP still? We'll claim him for this result anyway!)
M45L Evgueni 3rd, M45S Sam G 2nd, M50S Iain McLeod 1st, W45S Rachel 3rd