Arbor
Arbor, the Archive of British Orienteering Records provides searchable information about results from the British Orienteering Championships, the JK and other major events. The Arbor database currently contains:
| Races | Classes | Results | People |
|---|---|---|---|
| 92 | 4491 | 126815 | 15543 |
You can start your own search on the Arbor home page.
Orienteering Map Symbols
After the popularity of the Maprunner Guide to IOF Control Descriptions, you can now download three more items to help with your orienteering. These are guides to orienteering map symbols. Click on the images to see a full-size version. The files are jpg images that are designed for printing at A4 size. If you are having trouble then try right clicking and select "Save Link As...." to copy the file to your computer first.
Trog-O Chislehurst Caves
(This article was written by Ian Gilliver and is reproduced from Issue 56 of Lokation, the London Orienteering Klubb newsletter.)
LOK achieved a world first at Chislehurst Caves on the evening of Saturday 19 September 1987: the world's first day-time night orienteering event, or more simply, the world's first underground orienteering event. One hundred and one competitors accepted this unique navigational challenge and some twenty more pursued the less taxing wayfarers course.
The intrepid navigators completed a testing course some 2.5km in length and comprising 22 controls. Winner by a clear minute was Jim Mallinson in little over 25 minutes - not bad for a course with seven sets of master maps. The slowest competitor took more than four times that long.
The caves were formed by human excavation of a chalky hillside. The terrain was essentially flat, cool and gloomy. There were some similarities to a street event, except the streets had no names. Imagine dark grey-walled terraces of parallel or near parallel streets, crossed nearly at right angles with more of the same to form small blocks of buildings, each looking the same as the next. The surface of the streets is uneven, possessing a cobbled quality. Occasionally you would clamber over a pile of earth, obstructing progress down the street, and occasionally you would see a disused toilet block. These latter date from the Second World War when the caves were used as an underground shelter. One competitor showed Hazel Blackstone the bay where as an evacuee he had slept more than 40 years earlier.
Top 10 - Things You Didn't Know You Had Missed
An embarrassing number of the general orienteering public have been doing silly things in the woods for a very long time. For those who weren’t there in the 60s and 70s, or who have now forgotten, here is my list of orienteering things that are no more. (Reproduced from Pacemaker 98, May 2006. The article also appeared in CompassSport in June 2008.)
China 3 Day Event 1995: Guangzhou
(Reproduced from Lokation 105, January 1996.)Advertised as the "first multi-day international event hosted by the Chinese Orienteering Committee" this event proved just too convenient to miss for many of those attending APOC in Hong Kong. It was a short train, bus or plane journey from Hong Kong for most to get to the luxury hotel accommodation in Guangzhou. For Helen Teece and me it was a slightly longer train journey (starting from London and taking in the Channel Tunnel, Moscow, Ulan Bator and Beijing, and taking twelve days).
Top 10 - Ways to be a Better Orienteer
A list of the top ten ways of getting round your course faster than everybody else and running off with the prize every time. (Reproduced from Pacemaker 94, January 2005)Top 10 - Mistakes
A list of the all-time top ten mistakes to watch out for that even the experts still make from time to time. If you haven't done some of these yet then it's only a question of time. (Reproduced from Pacemaker 93, September 2004)Top 10 - Events not to miss
So you’ve done a few events around Hertfordshire, and you’re ready to venture a bit further. Here is the “not to be missed” list to aim for. (Reproduced from Pacemaker 97, January 2006)Top 10 - Things you didn't know about the World Cup
Just some of the things that went on behind the scenes at the World Cup races in 2005. (Reproduced from Pacemaker 95, May 2005).Read more: Top 10 - Things you didn't know about the World Cup
Top 10 - Technology Advances
Simon Errington looks back over 25 years of orienteering and picks his top 10 technological advances since he took up the sport in 1977. (Reproduced from Pacemaker 92, May 2004)
Top 10 - Animal Sightings
The final details for the Queensland Championships 2005 included information about what to do if you encountered snakes on the course. Read on for further details of wildlife encounters from orienteering events around the world. (Reproduced from Pacemaker 96, September 2005)More Articles...
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- British Schools Orienteering Championships 2008
- Colour photocopying
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