What's new?

Solway Summer series

The Hills Wood event which was to have been held on the 30 May has had to be postponed.

The Wednesday Evening Summer Series will now start on the 6th June in the Crichton Grounds, Dumfries. Go to the events page for more information.

There are a few new photos from The British Orienteering Championships and from the Kendal Urban Event. To view them go to the Gallery page where you will find the links.

The final results from the Dalbeattie SOL 2 are now available. Go to the results page to see them.

Click here to see the Planner's comments.

Click here to see photos from this event.

Click here to go to Routegadget.

Click here to see an article about Routegadget.

Solway's new banner

Solway's photo gallery has been moved onto Flickr

Click here to go to Flickr

SOA Participation Badges

The first two Participation badges were awarded recently to two of the club juniors.

Click here to find out more about this scheme,

Click here to download a copy of the record sheet.

If you have any questions you can contact the club coaches Dave and Jane.
Click here to send an e-mail to Dave and Jane.

Trimtex Club Tops

Are you interested in ordering a Solway Orienteers club top? If you are please contact Tim and Helen. Click here to send an e-mail to Tim and Helen. We need to have orders for ten tops to make up the minimum order size.

Click here to see the design.

West Area Team Success.

Photo taken by S. Wilson of Clyde

Above is a photo of the victorious West Area Team who took part in the two day Junior Inter Area Competition which was held on the weekend of 29th October. The competition was staged over two days and three teams of young orienteers came from the length and breadth of Scotland to take part. Saturday saw the juniors competing in a relay race in Shawhill Wood near Coulter. The weather was far from ideal being cold wet and windy. At the end of the first part of the competition the scores for each team were identical leaving the second day to decide who the winners would be.
The individual races were held in conjunction with the day event of the “Tinto Twin” which this year was held at Altarston near Broughton. This was an area of open moor and forested hill side. The west team won with 120 points. Followed by the North team with 111 and in third was the East team with 97.
To view the results

CLICK HERE

Club Clothing

After the success of the orienteering tops the club now offers the opportunity to buy other items of clothing with the club logo embroidered on it. The picture shows fleeces with the logo embroidered on them, but practically any item of clothing can be requested. The service is provided by Sam Scotts in Penrith. To get an idea of the range of clothing available click on the link below.

Click here to go to Sam Scotts' web site.

The sorts of items people might like to consider are fleece, t-shirt, polo shirt, hat and sweat shirt / hoodie. Items are normally ready a week later.

Solway Orienteers is a Dumfries & Galloway accredited sports club. The certificate arrived recently and I thought you might like to see it.

The club now has a space on face book which you can use if you choose to.