Moravian Orienteers

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.

All club members are invited to join us for the Club Championships & AGM on Saturday 23rd August at Findhorn.  There will be two courses for the Club champs - an Open and a Junior Course.  The Junior course will be a 30-minute score for W/M14 and under age classes.  For all older age classes, the Open course will be a 45-minute score. We will be using a cunning handicap system, devised by Alan Halliday and based on your performances this year as recorded in the main club league.

After the Score Champs we will hold our AGM, maybe while eating our lunch!  The agenda can be found here. 

We are pleased to announce that the Cluny Hill Permanent orienteering courses have been re-instated. We have installed some new posts, and thanks to the Forres Footpath Trust and Forres Heritage Trust we have added our control markers to existing posts.  We are grateful to these organisations, and to Moray Council for supporting this initiative.  Maps and instructions are available online (https://mor.scot/node/445), directed from the Qr code on the Start/Finish sign which can be found at the south estern edge of the woods where the tree lined avenue comes up from the Bowling Green. Paper copies will also available to collect from the Forres Community Centre indue course.  We are experimenting with waterproof non-tear paper post markers, but plan in the future install rigid aluminium or plastic markers which will be more long lasting. We hope that this resource will be used by local schools, youth groups and visitors to the area, as was the case with the courses that were originally out in Cluny Hill woods.  So, if you have friends visiting (or your dog needs some exercise!) why not enjoy a walk or trot round and introduce them to orienteering?  If you notice any damage or missing posts, please email club(at)mor.scot.