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Nov Dec2013

Issue 188

2GJO SUMMER SNIPPETS: cartoons by Naomi Lang and Laura Barraclough

CHAIRMAN’S CHAT - NOVEMBER 2013

Hi everyone, happy November!

We have the AGM and Xmas social coming up on Sat 7th December at the Scout Hut on Oakhill Crescent, just off Kings Gate above the Atholl Hotel. Bring a dish of food to share. I would encourage as many members as possible to come along and promise not to get you involved in anything you don’t want to be.

We are coming to the end of our Wednesday Street Series, moving into Wednesday Night O next with an introductory event at Hazlehead on the 20th November, before the Deeside Night Cup (DNC) proper begins at Bellwood Aboyne on the 27th Nov. The Hazlehead introductory event is a chance to try a slightly easier course at a friendly nearby location, or just to dust off and test out your head torches and remember what it’s all about. If you have not done Night O before, this is the year to start; surprisingly, it is great fun and it’s addictive, ask Lesley.

The future of Telegramp is in question as Rachel stands down. I know you all like it, just as I do. However my own view is that Telegramp has come to the end of its useful life, the effort to prepare it is difficult to justify in terms of benefit it provides, since we all get the info we need from the web and a blog or Facebook page can/could provide other ways for us to share our stories and news. Times have changed since Telegramp was the only way to check out what was on and share news. If you have views on this let me know and if you feel strongly enough then volunteer to take over as editor.

See you at the AGM and in a dark forest soon, Sam

To Aberdeen University Orienteering Club who are now officially up and running (pun intended) after a fashion all thanks to Alistair Murgatroyd’s vision and enthusiasm to regenerate the club. Great to see you all at the Urban O events at the start of term, even in that foul weather for the Abz Uni event, and we look forward to seeing you at some more soon.

Adrian (an AUOC ‘OP’) and Jess/GRAMP committee have been helping out with the official side of things to get AUOC registered with SOA and other club members have helped with access to maps, Condes etc etc to help the studes put on their own events. Low key stuff so far but we look forward to the invite to a “proper” event soon – no pressure guys!

By the time you read this, AUOC will have taken part in another rejuvenation – the Scottish Students’ Orienteering Champs being organised by EUOC 9th/10th Nov. Sounds like it will be a great weekend whether they manage to win anything or not with talk of a curry party in between the O stuff. (Think I might defect - room for a mature student or two? Ed.)

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GRAMP CHRISTMAS AGM AND SOCIAL7pm - Saturday 7th Dec

Same venue as last year in the Scout Hut on Oakhill Crescent at 7pm prompt (and we may have a running around game beforehand to warm you all up as it takes a while for the heaters to kick in!)

To get there turn off Kings Gate north up Oakhill Road next to the Atholl Hotel, then turn first left on Oakhill Crescent. Keep going past the garages and along the unmade track to park outside the Scout Hut. N.B. The Scout Hut is on a narrow lane, late-comers may need to park on Oakhill Road.

Short AGM followed by Gramp Champs prizegiving, supper and games afterwards. Bring a dish to share for the supper please and your favourite tipple.

Everyone welcome – Juniors as well as Seniors – and we want to hear your views, ideas, gripes, suggestions on anything to do with GRAMP events and activities so don’t hold back!

Any queries or items you’d like putting on the agenda? Contact Ian Hamilton.We're looking for a couple of new committee members for next year BTW – contact Sam to discuss.

POST-AGM EVENT Sunday 8th @ Balmedie Two courses: - a "hard-ish Yellow / easy-ish Orange" course, about 2.5 km. - "Precision-Xmas O" :- a technical course, about 4.5km.

Start times will be in a narrowed range: 11.30 - 12.15. Register from 11.00. Fees £3 senior, £1 juniors and students.

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Orienteering Board Games from NGOC

For the fourth and final year NGOC is offering the ori-enteering board game “Forest Challenge” for sale and all profits will be donated to the Wood-land Trust.

Also on offer for this Christmas only is the new game “Urban-O”, which includes “photo-O”, “maze-O” and “string-O” games.

Details of the games are at http://www.ngocweb.com/wpngoc-op/games/

Contact Alan Brown of NGOC for more details or to place an order: alan @ brizen.co.uk

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Taken from the BOF fixtures calendar and local clubs' websites as of early-November. Bear in mind that things may change by the time the events happen so don’t take this list as gospel truth and check on the relevant club’s website for details or ask a fellow Gramp to do so if you don’t have access.

MAROC = http://www.marocscotland.org.uk/MOR = http://www.moravianorienteering.org/BASOC = http://www.basoc.org.uk/INVOC = http://www.invoc.org.uk/EEE = Early Email Entry, OE = Online Entry, EOD = Entry On DayLevel D = 2 or 3 courses, Level C = full range of colour coded coursesLevel B = really full range plus all the bells and whistles like loos and traders

NOVSUN 9/11/13 BASOC Level D @ Uath Lochans EOD

WED 20/11/13 GRAMP Deeside Night Cup Training/CATI @ Hazlehead Park EODSee following page for more details

SAT 23/11/13 MOR Level D @ Brodie Castle EOD

WED 27/11/13 MAROC Level D DNC @ Bellwood EOD

SUN 24/11/13 GRAMP Level C @ Forvie EEE/EOD (JD)2C and GRAMP CHAMPS

DECWED 4/12/13 GRAMP Level D DNC @ Foggieton EOD

SAT 7/12/13 GRAMP CHRISTMAS AGM AND SOCIAL see page 4SUN 8/12/13 GRAMP Level D Post-AGM Event @ Balmedie

WED 11/2/13 MAROC Level D DNC @ Sluie EOD

SAT 14/12/13 MOR Level D @ Millbuies EODSUN 15/12/13 MAROC Level D @ Glen O’Dee EOD/EEESUN 15/12/13 BASOC Level D @ Inshriach EOD

WED 18/12/13 GRAMP Level D DNC @ Raemoir EOD

SUN 29/12 MAROC Level D Pudding Shaker @ Haughton Park EOD/EEE

JANSUN 2/1/14 GRAMP Level D Hogmany Hangover Handicap @ Tollo Hill

WED 8/1/14 MAROC Level D DNC @ Birsemore EODWED 15/12/14 GRAMP Level D DNC @ Balmedie EOD

SAT 18/1/14 MOR Level D @ Findhorn Dunes EOD

WED 22/1/14 MAROC Level D DNC @ Potarch EODWED 29/1/14 GRAMP Level D DNC @ Forvie EOD

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DEESIDE NIGHT CUP 2013/14

It’s coming to a wood near you very soon, starting Wednesday 20th Nov with a training event at Hazlehead Park then straight into the serious stuff at Bellwood on 27th.

For a full list of dates, venues, travel maps and chat take a look at the DNC Blog http://dncchat.wordpress.com/

Starts 6-7pm. Courses close 7:30-8pm depending on weather/area/organiser. Seniors £4, Juniors/Students £2.50.

There are 2 courses of about 5k for the DNC and 3k for the DN(mini)C, both TD5 or Green standard so if you’re a beginner not yet confident of doing a Green alone then we’ll have to try and find you an experienced running partner (it’s only fair on the planners not to have to wait for hours trying to decide whether to call out the Rescue for you!)

NOV20th Come and Try It Training @ Hazelhead (maybe a MAROC version up Deeside too)27th Bellwood (MAROC)

DEC JAN FEB4th Foggieton (GRAMP) 8th Birsemore (M) 5th Shooting Greens (M)11th Sluie (M) 15th Balmedie (G) 12th Glen Dye (G)18th Raemoir (G) 22nd Potarch (M) 19th Tilquhillie (M) 29th Forvie (G) 26th Crathes (G)

Richard Oxlade is the GRAMP half of the DNC co-ordinating team and is keen to hear from volunteers to plan one of the GRAMP events. richard.oxlade @ btinternet.com

LAST EVER TELEGRAMP?

This will certainly be my last issue as Editor and, as nobody has expressed an interest in taking over, this may well be the last issue ever.

Personally, I think it’s time for a seachange as the immediacy of email/website/Facebook etc makes newsletters seem rather old hat these days. It certainly seems that fewer and fewer folk enjoy crafting articles but more and more are quite happy to send me a link to something interesting they’ve spotted online or listened to on the radio. Seems pointless me then doing their ‘dirty work’ and summarising it all into a somewhat static article in black and white when you can have the full interactive, technicolour version with one click.

I also suspect that GRAMPs are generally better at chatting than writing and because we put on so many events it seems that you’ve already told each other all your news in a car park somewhere face-to-face and so don’t see the need to put it into writing as well.

So many thanks to all those who’ve contributed over the past few years, both unbidden and browbeaten, and if you feel the urge in the future and TG is still in limbo then we can always publish on the website instead.

Rachel

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SOL 2013 Final Rankings for GRAMPsBest 4 of 7 scores count but as many GRAMPs didn’t manage to get to rack up 4 events I’ve indulged in a little statistical daydreaming…. had you managed 4 events at your average score then you’d have potentially finished in the position shown in brackets after your name.Very flaky logic, I know, but it might just spur some of you on to make the effort to get to more SOLs next year?

Anyway, congratulations go to the winners of course – 6 GRAMPs this year or 7 if you count Katrina too - but also to the likes of Foss and Erik who quietly did themselves proud and both got 3rd place through consistent runs all year.

M108 M10 Patrick Lang GRAMP 0 0 0 0 0 971 963 1934 (4th)M1218 M12 Alex Lang GRAMP 0 0 0 0 0 867 485 1352 (12th)M1415 M14 Lachlan Kirk GRAMP 0 0 0 0 0 971 0 971 (11th)M161 M16 Alexander Chepelin GRAMP 1369 1270 1276 0 0 1325 1282 525217 M16 Paul Caffyn GRAMP 0 0 0 0 0 1050 0 1050 (11th)M184 M18 Calum McLeod GRAMP 922 1038 990 1076 0 812 1054 4158M21L10 M21 Tim Gomersall GRAMP 0 0 0 0 0 1128 1166 2294 (4th)30 M21 Joonas Salminen GRAMP 861 0 0 0 0 0 0 861 (8th)36 W45 Rachel Scott GRAMP 0 0 0 0 0 622 0 622 (9th but assumes the weather and terrain is “nice” and that I manage to not miss any controls 4 times!)M21S1 M21 David Esson GRAMP 707 682 564 630 605 0 0 26242 M21 Gordon Hale GRAMP 951 0 0 952 0 0 0 1903 (1st – watch out David!)M35L5 M35 Ali Robertson GRAMP 0 0 0 0 0 0 1104 1104 (1st)M35S3 M35 Adrian Will GRAMP 0 0 0 0 0 916 940 1856 (1st)M40S5 M50 Ian Searle GRAMP 0 0 0 0 0 1047 1034 2081 (3rd)M45L15 M45 John Lang GRAMP 0 0 0 0 0 934 820 1754 (9th)M45S5 M45 Murray Anderson GRAMP 0 0 0 0 0 1208 0 1208 (1st)M50L2 M50 Evgueni Chepelin GRAMP 1212 1073 0 1043 0 1220 1150 46557 M50 Iain McLeod GRAMP 953 774 822 900 0 918 1027 379811 M50 Sam Gomersall GRAMP 0 1145 1156 0 0 1175 0 3476 (4th)12 M50 Peter Lawrence GRAMP 0 1052 1176 0 1071 0 0 3299 (5th)15 M50 Ian Hamilton GRAMP 0 1069 0 0 0 1109 0 2178 (5th)M55L5 M55 Robert Hickling GRAMP 1187 0 1166 0 1158 0 1167 46786 M55 Robert Daly GRAMP 1150 1169 1150 1140 1158 943 1133 462718 M55 Paul Duley GRAMP 1057 0 0 0 0 1087 0 2144 (11th)29 M55 Bill Caffyn GRAMP 0 0 0 0 0 1067 0 1067 (11th)M55S8 M55 Richard Oxlade GRAMP 0 1210 0 0 0 0 0 1210 (1st)M60L10 M60 Dave Armitage GRAMP 0 1161 0 1176 0 0 0 2337 (1st)

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M60S2 M65 Mike Pearson GRAMP 0 0 0 987 0 1122 1121 3230 (1st)M65L14 M65 Michael Pearson GRAMP 1088 0 893 0 0 0 0 1981 (7th)15 M65 Chris Aust GRAMP 0 0 0 0 0 924 1041 1965 (8th)17 M65 George Esson GRAMP 682 0 0 0 472 606 0 1760 (14th)M70L1 M70 Neil McLean GRAMP 0 1259 1197 0 1202 1144 0 48022 M70 Dave McQuillen SOLWAY 1183 1172 0 1125 0 0 1107 45873 M70 Erik Van der Kam GRAMP 910 0 675 756 0 855 734 3255

W109 W10 Isobel Anderson GRAMP 0 0 0 0 0 1018 0 1018 (5th)W1210 W12 Josie Gomersall GRAMP 0 840 580 0 0 889 730 3039W149 W14 Naomi Lang GRAMP 0 0 0 0 0 976 1061 2037 (5th)11 W12 Ailsa Anderson GRAMP 0 0 0 0 0 921 0 921 (6th)W201 W20 Katrina McLeod EUOC 1103 1076 1115 1109 0 1112 818 4439 (EUOC but we’ll claim her as GRAMP!)W21S5 W21 Kate Robertson GRAMP 0 0 0 0 0 0 1249 1249 (1st)W40L1 W45 Carolyn McLeod GRAMP 1132 819 1075 1089 0 884 1116 4412W45L7 W45 Laura Farquharson GRAMP 1069 1135 887 1073 0 1066 0 434312 W45 Rachel Scott GRAMP 0 898 913 0 742 0 0 2553 (11th)22 W45 Helen Rowlands GRAMP 0 0 0 0 0 968 0 968 (10th)24 W45 Marianne Lang GRAMP 0 0 0 0 0 0 850 850 (11th)W50L1 W50 Lesley Gomersall GRAMP 0 1151 1151 0 0 1152 1174 46288 W50 Sonia Armitage GRAMP 1181 0 0 1066 851 0 0 3098 (5th)W55L8 W55 Anne Hickling GRAMP 988 833 929 0 0 940 0 369015 W55 Anne Hoy GRAMP 864 0 0 0 0 0 0 864 (9th)W55S1 W55 Jayne Macgregor GRAMP 918 0 0 0 0 946 949 2813 (1st still)2 W55 Oonagh Grassie GRAMP 0 0 0 0 0 0 1241 1241 (1st – watch out Jayne!)4 W55 Anne Hoy GRAMP 0 950 0 0 0 0 0 950 (1st – watch out Jayne!)5 W55 Anne Hoy GRAMP 0 0 0 0 0 0 930 930 (1st – again? What’s going on here?)W60L3 W60 Foss Foster GRAMP 905 940 986 935 0 969 963 385823 W60 Genevieve Jones GRAMP 0 428 0 0 0 399 0 827 (13th)26 W60 Lindsey Esson GRAMP 421 0 0 0 0 0 0 421 (13th)W60S4 W60 Audrey Wilson Hay GRAMP 765 0 0 769 0 0 428 1962 (2nd)5 W60 Margaret Aust GRAMP 0 0 0 0 0 730 877 1607 (2nd)8 W60 Lindsey Esson GRAMP 0 0 0 0 0 0 638 638 (3rd)

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BTW Carolyn also achieved W45 Championship Standard this year

GRAMP contingent at the JIRCs + SHIs + VHIs

Well done guys – Scotland won all 5 trophies again this year’s Junior Inter-Regional Cup and Sasha, Karen and Calum were there to help the team to victory, putting ScotJOS up at the top of the regional squads!!

Meanwhile, over in Ireland, Jack Gomersall and Katrina McLeod both came 3rd M/W20 to help Scotland clean up in the Senior Home Internationals too. Wow! What a week for Scottish orienteering!

Sonia Armitage, Ali Robertson and Rob Hickling were part of a somewhat depleted Scottish Vets team that travelled to Norfolk for the Veteran Home Internationals. The team was plagued by injuries and dropouts in the fortnight leading up to the event and despite Rob’s best efforts at twisting the arm of everyone over 35 at Crathes to answer the call for runners ScotVOS didn’t manage to field a full team in the end. They finished third overall as England won everything bar the Ireland vs Wales Trophy.

That was Rob’s last event as Scottish Vets Manager after 7 years service and a big thankyou to him for his input and commitment over the years. No doubt if he keeps up his current level of fitness and O skills he’ll be answering the call to run for his country from the other side of things in 2014 and many years to come.

GRAMP JUNIOR NEWS issue 29

Junior Inter-Area Competition success for North

Patrick Lang, Josie Gomersall , Keith Yardley, Ailsa Anderson, Sasha Chepelin, Calum McLeod, Naomi Lang, Paul Caffyn, Lachlan Kirk, Alex Lang, Struan Kirk, Laura Barraclough, Isobel Anderson and Jack Gomersall all took part in the JIA held at Scolty and did Team North and themselves proud. Some ran exceptionally well. Some, like Struan, ran a Yellow for the good of the relay team even if they felt they were capable of much more. Some quietly accepted that their brikke had failed – sorry Naomi! Everyone had great fun taking part.

Never has that little triangle junction in the heart of Scolty been soooo noisy! Amazingly, after pegging round their relay courses and cheering each other on, many of the GJOs and other Juniors still had enough energy to have a stormer of a race at SOUL 5 in Banchory and then did it all again at SOL 6.

Well done everyone!

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12GJO SUMMER SNIPPETS: cartoons by Naomi Lang and Laura Barraclough