Moravian Orienteers

Well, that was an exciting weekend in the Trossachs!   Sunday was the annual CompassSport Cup and Trophy Scottish heat. The Trossachs offers really challenging orienteering terrain with few paths, lots of crags, marshes and tussocks!  We compete in the Trophy competition for smaller clubs.  Despite several of our younger club runners being away on a Talent Squad training weekend, we put out a strong team of 15 runners, all of who completed their courses, with no mispunches! Several of the team can be seen here, all smiling before their 'runs'. Full results can be seen here. Well done everyone, and in particular Julia and Harriet, who performed really well in tricky terrain. A huge thanks to Forth Valley Orienteers for putting on two excellent National level events based at Loch Katrine. Overall, we came 2nd out of 13 clubs in the Trophy competition - a great result for Team Moravians!  

The final event of the Northern Night Cup 25-26 was held in Nethy Bridge recently.  The event was hosted by BASOC, who not only planned and organised two great courses, but arranged for the presentations to be held in the comfort of the Nethy Bridge cafe.  Refreshments and cakes were enjoyed by all - thanks to Rob & Anne Parkinson and Finlay McLuckie.   A total of 87 runners participated in the six events of the series, organised by MOR, INVOC and BASOC.  Full results for the Long and Short courses can be found here.  Thanks to Ken and Douglas McDonald for processing these results.
Prize winners on the long and courses can be seen opposite - congratulations to all.  Thanks to David Ritchie for designing and printing the certificates.  Time now to put away the head torches for a few months.  Why not join us for an event in the 26-27 series?

The club's annual social event and awards evening at Roseisle Hall on Saturday 17th Jan was a real success.  More than 40 club members enjoyed some lovely shared food, great company and a fun, challenging quiz set by Peter.  During the evening we celebrated the achievements of club members over the year with presentations of trophies and medals for league performances.  Liz Campbell (pictured), who as been our Child Welfare and Protection officer for many years, shared the Moravian Bull trophy this year with Karen Fraser, who stood down as treasurer in the summer after also serving the club for many years in that role.  We are hugely grateful to Liz and Karen for all the work they have done for the club - thank you both!

This year's trophy winners are:
Climie Shield: Harriet Ross
Rogan Trophy: Anna Howard
Gordon & MacPhail Trophy: Ewan Maxwell
Moravian Bull Trophy: Liz Campbell & Karen Fraser
Climie trophy for Navigation (Club championships): Rob Parkinson
Reid Trophy: Rosie Pye

Local and Main League 2025 1st, 2nd & 3rd places can be seen here. Thanks once again to Finlay and Eddie for processing the results for these two club leagues.

All club members are welcome to join us on Saturday evening, 17th January for our Annual Social and Awards Evening.  Please put this date in your diary!  We will be holding the event at Roseisle Hall this year.  The hall is situated at College of Roseisle (IV30 5YF, w3w: frequently.wonders.sketches). 

The Social evening will start formally at 6.00 pm, with doors open from 5.30 pm. We are planning a full evening with our awards presentations, a family-friendly quiz and some other activities to be announced nearer the time.  During the evening we will have a bring-and-share meal - details to follow.  The evening will end at around 9.00 pm.  This is a great chance to meet other members of the club in a relaxed setting and celebrate the achievements of the club over the year. We look forward to seeing you all on Saturday evening, 17th January!

Photo credit: Roseisle Hall

Our Northern Night league 2025/26 kicks off on Wed 19th November with a BASOC event at Tolquhonie near Carrbridge - entries are now open!  This is full programme for this year's Night league:
19th Nov Tolquhonie, Carrbridge BASOC
3rd Dec Burgie Arboretum, Forres MOR
17th Dec Ord Hill, Inverness INVOC
21st Jan Nethy Bridge BASOC
4th Feb Littlemill, Farr INVOC
11th Feb Forres Golf Club MOR including end of series presentations
As usual there are two courses on offer at each event. Under 14s must be accompanied by an adult.  Come and join the fun of some night time orienteering!

Thanks to everyone who took part in the 2025 NUL series of urban orienteering.  Special thanks to David Ritchie, YourOMaps, who kindly sponsored the series for a third consecutive year.  Overall, 143 people took part in at least one of the events, which was a great turnout.  Well done to everyone and special congratulations to all of the Series' winners.  The final results table is at the following link: Overall Tables 2025.xlsx.

Congratulations to everyone who took part in our annual Club Champs recently at Findhorn, and competed for the Climie trophy for Navigation. Before the start Andrew explained the devious rules of the score event, which for the adults included selecting all odd then all even controls, with penalty points for punching out of sequence (see photo).  The handicap for the event was based on BOF recommended course length equivalents and gender.  The results for the event can be seen here. Congratulations to the following club members: Open course 1st Rob P, 2nd Andrew C, 3rd Morag M.  Junior course: 1st Ben H, 2nd Julia R, 3rd Verity T-M.  Thanks to Bill (Planner), Kaisa (Organiser) and Andrew (Mentor) for putting on such a successful event.

Our 2025 AGM was held after the Score champs in the Findhorn sunshine.  Over 30 members attended, and approved the committee membership for the following year.  The minutes of the AGM can been seen here.

The sixth and final round of the 2025 NUL takes place at Grantown-on-Spey this evening.  Everything is still to play for with the overall series standings, with your top four races out of the six to count.  The current standings after five events are at the link here: Microsoft Word - Document1.  There will be a short prize giving ceremony for the top three men and women on the long and short courses after tonight's races conclude.  

The results for the Scolty MTBO event are here and the Routegadget link is below.

2025-07-30 Scolty MTBO

After the first four rounds of the NUL series, the standings are shown at the following link.  Many congratulations to Neil, Rob and Colin who are the leading Moravians on the long and to Paul, Steve and Penelope who are the leading Moravians on the short. Everything can still change with two events to go, so sign up to Dalneigh (21 August 2025) and Grantown (27 August 2025). if you have yet to do so.  Prizes will be presented at the final race in Grantown. 

2025 NUL League Positions after 4 events.