Club Night

6.30pm Monday January 27th based at Millthorpe School (parking available). Beginners welcome – coaching available. Pressure! We’ll try to ignore the pressure and orienteer cleanly in some very short head to head sprint races on the Millthorpe campus. Bring a compass if you have one. Meet in the classroom with the red and white kite […]

Beginners welcome – coaching available. Attack points: an attack point is an easily identifiable and findable feature as close as possible to the tricky control. Learn how to use them to find that tricky control. Bring a compass if you have one. Meet in the classroom with the red and white kite outside it (near

Club Night 6.30pm Monday 9th January: Millthorpe School, Nunthorpe Ave, York YO23 1WF Club night returns this week with intricate mapreading to tricky control sites in woodland. Each week there are maps prepared for beginners as well as experienced orienteers. We will be outdoors and jogging (you can walk if you wish) so dress appropriately. In

York 50+ festival goers are very welcome to attend this week. Each week there are maps prepared for beginners and coaches available. We will be outdoors and jogging so dress appropriately. For the regulars, a special treat for all those who like to complain: a map with a course which has an error on every leg

Technique work this week with the emphasis on map orientation and distance judgement…. we might just manage without headlamps!? Meet at Millthorpe School, Nunthorpe Ave, York YO23 1WF. There are plenty of cycle racks and many of you can walk or run there but by car, access the school via Nunthorpe Avenue or Philadelphia Terrace (additional

Meet up Millthorpe School, Nunthorpe Ave, York YO23 1WF Technique training on Hob Moor this week… we might just manage without headlamps? (bring one just in case!) Each week there are maps prepared for beginners as well as experienced orienteers. We will be outdoors and jogging so dress appropriately. There are plenty of cycle racks at

Safari time! Our last club night before September. Meet 6.30pm by the war memorial in the small park opposite the Dean Court Hotel (Duncombe Pl, York YO1 7EF). 25 controls in the city centre and they are all animals. Can you hunt them all down in time to have a drink and a social later?Bring

Our last away day of the summer and this time near Pickering. We’ll use Stony Moor and try some of the legs from the JK that never was (covid). It’s wonderful terrain. Parking is in a small car park courtesy of Rawcliffe Motors (Rawcliffe Lodge, Stape, Pickering YO18 8JA) at GR 798918. This is just

Club Night 7 pm Monday 4th July. We’ll be at the White Horse yet again so that we can get in a bit of practice contour reading and hill climbing on a different area from the last two weeks and a DIFFERENT CAR PARK. We’ll meet at 7pm again to give folk a bit of extra