Kinloss Barracks

Event Summary

Welcome to a special bonus event!  To coincide with event #4 of the Scottish Orienteering Urban League at Dufftown on 25 May 2025, Moravian is delighted to offer an indoor event at Kinloss Barracks.  With special thanks to CO 39 Regt and his staff, the event will be held in the ex-MRA4 simulator building on the base.  

This event offers a unique chance to try orienteering indoors.  The map will show a plan of the building.  There is a ground floor, first floor and between the two floors a small mezzanine level.  The event will take place inside the building and will require you to complete the course outlined on the map by resolving and executing a 3D orienteering puzzle.  Timing is by Si (air enabled).

Steve Smirthwaite has planned four courses to test your abilities to orienteer indoors.  These are as follows:

  • Easy.  The Easy course is suitable for juniors and those not wanting too difficult a challenge.
  • Moderate.  The Moderate course will be challenging, but not as long or as difficult as the Hard courses.
  • Short Hard.  The Hard courses will be a real brainteaser and will take your best puzzle solving skills to complete.  The Short Hard is expected to be won in about 30 minutes, but will take some competitors up to an hour.
  • Long Hard.  The Long Hard has an expected winning time of 45 minutes, but many competitors will take well over an hour.  You can enter the Long Hard and finish half way around to count for the Short Hard.

The competition area will have barriers, mazes and one-way systems.  There are many interlinking rooms, corridors and numerous staircases.  In three large halls, there are mazes or other features, set out to challenge your map reading skills.

Please bring photo ID (passport, driver's licence or young scot card are ideal) with you to gain you access to the Base.  Sorry, no photo ID, no access!  Please note that Juniors at Primary School and accompanied by an adult do not need photo ID.  Given security requirements, you must pre-enter.  There will be no entry on the day, except for military and Barrack staff. 

So, come and make a weekend of orienteering in Moray - entering the indoor and SOUL events.  

Urban
Local
SI AIR
1330-1500 Hours
1400-1530 Hours
1645 Hours
86724
On Leads
Online
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Directions and Parking

Directions.  From the West, please head towards Forres on the A96 and then take the B9011 at the roundabout towards Findhorn and Kinloss.  On reaching Kinloss, continue straight-on at the traffic lights for approx 1 Km, before turning left into the Barracks. 

From the East, take the A96 towards Forres.  Turn right at A96/Kinloss Road junction (w3ws:///forgiving.applause.parsnips) and continue until you reach Kinloss at a T-junction.  Turn right and continue for approx.500m, before turning left into the Barracks.

Please continue to the main Barrack entrance.  At the entrance, you will be required to show your photo ID to be permitted access to the Barracks.  Please continue into the Barracks and follow the signs to the event parking (details below).  Please note that your vehicle details (on the day) MUST match those registered at pre-entry.

Parking.  Event parking will be on the parade square.  On entering the Barracks, please follow the road (left 90 degree turn) and then follow the marked signs.  There will be a one-way route to the car park and from the car park to the Barrack exit.  You are not permitted to access any other area of the Barracks.

Start and Finish

Start and Finish.  The start and finish will be in the ex-MRA4 simulator building.  This building is adjacent to the car parking area.  There will be no start times pre-allocated.  Please turn up and make your way to the start, which will be marked from the car parking area.

First Aid.  First Aid will be located at enquires within the ex-MRA4 simulator building.

Toilets.  Toilets will be in an adjacent building to the simulator building (~1 min walk).  Please note that the Barracks require participants using this building to sign in and out.  Toilet facilities in the ex-MRA4 simulator building MUST not be used, as the building does not have a connected water supply!

Courses

Four Courses:

  • Easy.  0.9 km, 20m climb.  The Easy course is suitable for juniors and those not wanting too difficult a challenge.
  • Moderate.  1.4 km, 30m climb.  The Moderate course will be challenging, but not as long or as difficult as the Hard courses.
  • Short Hard.  2.0 km, 50m climb.  The Hard courses will be a real brainteaser and will take your best puzzle solving skills to complete.  The Short Hard is expected to be won in about 30 minutes, but will take some competitors up to an hour.
  • Long Hard.  3.2 km, 70m climb.  The Long Hard has an expected winning time of 45 minutes, but many competitors will take well over an hour.  You can enter the Long Hard and finish half way around to count for the Short Hard.

You MUST download when you have finished your run, even if you retire.  

Terrain

The event will take place within the ex-MRA4 simulator building.  The building has a ground floor, first floor and between the two floors a small mezzanine level.  There are numerous corridors, stairways and inter-connected rooms.  Artificial barriers will be in use, together with one-way systems and a maze.  Whilst competing you MUST obey one way systems and artificial barriers. 

A map extract is shown below:

Map Example - Kinloss Barracks

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Entry Details

Entries are online via SI Entries only.  

  • Entries open online from Monday 6 May 2025 and will close at 23:59 pm on Tuesday 20 May 2025..  Online entries can also be edited/changed/cancelled until this closure, subject to map availability. 
  • Limited entry on the day for military and Barrack staff only, subject to an additional £1 and map availability.  

Entry Fees: 

  • Senior (21 and older) BOF Member - £5.00.
  • Senior SOA-only Member - £6.00.
  • Senior Non-Member - £7.00. 
  • Junior (20 and younger) and Student BOF/SOA Members - £3.50.
  • Junior/Student Non-Member - £4.50.
  • Si Dibbers (non-Si AIR) available to hire (at pre-entry) at an additional £1.
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Final Details

Start List - Hard Courses Only. Other courses can start at any time. (431.08 KB)

Safety Information

  • General Safety
    • Competitors take part at their own risk and are responsible for their own safety.
    • Participants are advised to be mindful of other competitors and users in corridors (particularly around blind corners) and on the stairways.
    • Participants are advised of potential trip hazards (stairs, steps).
    • Participants are advised to observe the 10-mph speed limit in the car parking area to minimise the risk of competitor-vehicular collisions.
    • Participants are advised of a grassed area near simulator building which could be a potential pollen source for participants susceptible to hay fever/asthma.
    • Participants advised of a potential hazard from diving seagulls around the simulator building.
    • Participants advised to avoid contact with bird droppings (both outside and inside the building) to minimise the risk of infection.  Where some bird droppings remain in the main hall, these have been taped off with yellow/black hazard tape.  Participants MUST not enter this area..
    • Participants advised to follow the emergency exit signs to a building entrance to re-orientate.

  • Fire Safety  

    • Participants are advised of the following fire safety instructions which MUST be followed in the event of smoke or a fire. 

      • If you see fire or smell smoke shout “Fire-Fire-Fire” or if you hear the warning “Fire-Fire-Fire”, stop your run and immediately evacuate the building by the nearest fire exit.
      • The fire exits are marked clearly on your map.
      • If you are on the First floor (marked '3' on your map) go down the staircase and exit the building at a fire exit.
      • When you stop your run, you can ignore all one way systems and artificial barriers.
      • On exiting the building, go to the fire assembly point in the main car park.  Be prepared for a role call to make sure everyone has safely evacuated the building.

    • Competitors should be aware that there is no automatic fire warning system in the building.  The event will have marshals in the building to assist competitors leave the building by the nearest exit and will assist in closing internal fire doors.  They will also raise the alarm by shouting 'Fire-Fire-Fire'.  These actions have been informed by a comprehensive Fire Safety Risk Assessment.

Event Officials

Steve Smirthwaite
Steve Smirthwaite
mtbo@mor.scot
Andrew Campbell
07957 816572

COVID-19

COVID-19 Guidance (Updated March 2025)

If you have symptoms of COVID or have tested positive to COVID, then do not attend the event or activity to help avoid spreading infection.  

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