Permanent Orienteering Courses (POCs) – Updated November 2007
Aden Country Park
The permanent orienteering course at Aden
Country Park, Mintlaw is now back in operation.
New format maps are available from the shop at Aden Country Park for £1, or can
be obtained from Aberdeenshire Council Landscape Services (Tel: 01261 813386).
Copies are also available by post at a cost of £1 (cheques made payable to
‘Grampian Orienteers’) and can be obtained from Iain McLeod, 25 Earlspark Drive,
Bieldside, Aberdeen, AB15 9AH e-mail:
Crathes Castle
New format maps are now available for the Crathes permanent orienteering course.
They are on sale at the Ticket Office at Crathes Castle for £1, or can be
obtained from the Crathes Ranger (Tel: 01330 844810). Copies are also available
by post at a cost of £1 (cheques made payable to ‘Grampian Orienteers’) and can
be obtained from: Iain McLeod, 25 Earlspark Drive, Bieldside, Aberdeen, AB15 9AH
e-mail:
Duthie Park
New format maps for the permanent orienteering course at Duthie Park are now
available. Copies of the maps can be obtained from Aberdeen Council, Outdoor
Education Department (Office Tel: 01224 346191).
Drum Castle
Due to environmental concerns, access to certain areas of the forest has been
restricted. As a result, the permanent orienteering course at Drum is no longer
operational.
Kirkhill North
The permanent orienteering course at Kirkhill North is currently
non-operational. The control posts have been removed for maintenance and the map
is being updated to reflect the changes to the forest over the last few years.
New control sites will be selected and it is hoped that the permanent
orienteering course will be back operational early in 2008.
Bennachie Semi-Permanent Orienteering Courses
Hilary Quick and Mark Reeve (both Maroc and FC) have hit on a great idea - unlike normal POCs where the controls remain fixed year in year out, the POCs at Bennachie will be changed periodically to keep the interest going. There's an easy short course for beginners and children and a harder course with long and short variations for more experienced orienteers, guaranteed to take you to parts of Bennachie you've never been before (and not a phaser in sight!) Simply pitch up at the Visitor Centre or contact Mark to get a map pack.
We could also use this facility for informal training events or to practise planning and controlling. Or see if you can beat Mark's time on the long course to claim a lavish prize.
Last updated 27/02/2008
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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 or get a map pack for one of our
Permanent
Orienteering Courses.
If you have any ???s then
contact us.
EVENTS IN THE NEAR FUTURE
Wed 14th May
Summer Series
Hazlehead
Sun 18th May Balnagowan
MAROC
Wed 21st May
Summer Series
Kingshill
Wed 28th May
Summer Series
Scolty
Sun 8th June Creag
Choinnich
MAROC
COACHING/TRAINING
SESSIONS
Saturday sessions to help you improve
some of your O skills such as making sense of those squiggly brown lines.
More
details here.
Incidentally,
MAROC are running something similar on
Wednesday evenings from March 19th and I'm sure they wouldn't mind us joining
in.
BENNACHIE SATURDAY EVENTS
Get yourself
over to Bennachie once a month for the
Bennachie/FCS Saturday Events for
a bit more practice.
CIRCUIT TRAINING ON MONDAYS
As the light nights arrive,
the weekly training sessions move from indoor to outdoors. As of Monday 5th
May,
Anna
will lead an hour long session involving a warm up & interval sessions,
finishing with a run back to the car park (choose your own distance and pace)
and warm-down. Meet at Foggieton (FC car
park at
NJ 870 181)
ready for a 7:30pm start.
NB This is a change from our usual venue at Countesswells woods as these are
closed due to Forestry operations, however we may return there in the future.
OTHER STUFF
Routegadget
Full event list for 2008
Permanent Orienteering
Courses
GRAMP mapped areas
O Links
to clubs and
traders
Joining
Club rankings
Technical info
- control descriptions, age classes etc.
plus Organisers/Planners' info/docs
Photos
More links will be added asap so keep watching!
CONTACT US
Web
Rachel Scott
Chairman Anne Hickling
Treasurer
Eric Lovie
Secretary Jayne McGregor
Mapping Ali Robertson
Emit kit
Rob Hickling
Fixtures
Pete Lawrence