A Summer Challenge for You
Get your shoes back out, competitive orienteering is allowed again from the 1st August!
Our first event is the Quantocks Challenge, a long score course covering most of the northern Quantocks.
New Permanent Courses
We have a range of new permanent courses available, as well as a revamp of the information about older ones. Several have just for fun leagues so you can compare your times or scores to other. Check out our Permanent Orienteering Courses page for more information...
Ted Heath
The club is sad to announce that Ted passed away on Thursday (4 June). Many of our members will remember Ted and his contributions as an active member of the club and the committee for many years, as well as his and wife Lennox’s vibrant personalities, reports Roger Craddock.
Latest Planning Videos Released
We have just produced a series of videos to help planners produce GPS-punched (aka virtual) orienteering courses. It is likely that this kind of event will be the first to be allowed to restart as we work our way out of lockdown.
Fyne Court
Permanent course: open again
As we come out of lockdown, this course is now open again for individuals and family groups. To make it more of a challenge, you can submit your time via an online form via the page here - Fyne Court POC
Lockdown Team event
A QO team finished ahead of two teams from 2018 Compass Sport Cup winners South Yorkshire Orienteers (SYO) in the Lockdown Team weekend. We may have only been using mice, PCs and phones, but any win over one of the UK's mightiest clubs counts, doesn't it?
Lockdown Classic Weekend
Intrepid Phil Sorrell took part in a multi-stage weekend of orienteering puzzles and games, held between from Friday 8 to Sunday 10 May. Read Phil's write up on the QO Chat site here
Mapping online
Lockdown iniative
We're looking to use downtime to build up a good base of maps and courses for MapRun. If you'd like to help, please fill in your name in this spreadsheet. If you can think of another area, please add a new row.
Social media
During lock down
Several QO members have been busy behind the scenes setting up some virtual orienteering and chat facilities...
Join in the discussion on QO's Facebook on how to tackles individual legs on a virtual course
Local League (QOFLs)
The winners are...
With the last league event postponed, the league tables stay exactly as they are, with only the best three runs counting.