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The results for the Hills Wood event are now on the results page.

The next event is on
Wednesday 19th June.

Heathhall, Dumfries.

An extra date for your diary.

Training at Maxwelton Estate near Moniaive .

As Solway members were all helping at the Scottish Relay Championships last week very few of our members got the chance to get into the area. Maxwelton Estate is an exceptionally good area for orienteering with some interesting woodland and rough open ground. The sad news is that some of the woods are about to be felled with work starting in June. It is proposed to hold an event or training opportunity using surplus maps from the relays on Sunday 23rd June so that Solway members can get a chance to orienteer in the best parts of Maxwelton Estate
if you would like to grab what may prove to be a once-in-a-life-time opportunity please let Dave know by Wednesday 5th June. Please indicate if you would like to simply run a normal course or do some orienteering training exercises, or both.
Click here to send an e-mail to Dave and Jane.

The results from the Scottish Relay Championships are now on the results page of the web site.
There are also some photos taken at this event and Routegadget is now ready for you to input your routes.

Congratulations to these happy juniors who received their SOA Participation Badges at the recent club night in Barhill Plantation.

The Dumfries and Galloway Schools Orienteering Championships.

The results from this event are now on the web.

Routegadget for this event is now on line. Use this link to fill in your route.

Use this link if you would like to learn more about Routegadget.

Click here to see photos from this event.

There are more photos on www.dgnews-sport.co.uk/100830/info.php?p=50 .

The first SOA Participation badge awarded by Solway in 2013.

Congratulations to this junior who received his first SOA Participation Badge. This is the first badge to be awarded by Solway Orienteers in 2013 and was presented by the club chairman at the recent Saturday event at Shambellie Wood.

There are now two quizes all about map symbols. Have a go and see how good you are.

Quiz 1 - Match the description to the map symbol.

Quiz 2 - Match the photo to the map symbol.

The results from the Scottish Score Championships are now on line.

Click here to see who the Scottish Score Champions 2012 are.

Click here to go to Routegadget..

Click here to see photos from Drumlanrig.
Click here to see a few more photos.
Click here to see a short film.

Forest Jump (A Short Freerunning/Orienteering Film)

Click here to see a short film made by two young Moravian Orienteers.

If you like the look of running in this type of forest you should consider going to the next Scottish 6 Days. Moray has some great areas of forest on sand dunes - four of the 6 days will be held on this type of terrain.
Use this link to read more about The Scottish 6 days in Moray 28 July to 3 Aug 2013

SOA Participation Badges

Congratulations to Greg on achieving his second badge which was presented to him by Dave at Mabie Forest.

Well done to these juniors who are taking part in the S.O.A. Participation Badge Scheme. Tim presented the badges after the recent Barhill event. Congratulations to Ciara, Niamh and Greg on gaining their first badges and to Ailsa and Isla their 3rd badge.

Click here to find out more about this scheme,

Click here to download a copy of the record sheet.

If you have any questions click here to send an e-mail.

Scottish Championships Relay

Well done to the members of Solway who travelled all the way to Braemar to take part in the recent Scottish Champs relay. Their team was called “SOLWAY SONTIME” which is ironic when you read the comments which accompany the photos taken at the event. However despite their problems they came 5th out of the 26 teams running in their category. Here is a link to some photos taken at the recent Scottish Champs

Click here to see photos taken by ths McQuillens at this event.

Click on the photo below to see phose taken by a member of Grampian Orienteering Club

Relays2012. Photo from Old Glutton Gramp

The Solway Sontime team. Photo by J. McQuillen

Scottish Schools Orienteering Championships.
Lanark. 6 June 2012

It is many years since any youngsters from Dumfries and Galloway have been present at this event so it was fantastic to have some of the junior members of Solway taking part as well as a team from Dumfries High. A few photos were taken during the day, as you will see the weather was atrocious being very wet. The courses were also technically and physically quite challenging the latter because of the mud. At least two kids crossed the finish line with just one shoe on, the other having been sucked off in the mud.

There were just under 400 youngsters taking part from all over Scotland. Many had travelled a considerable distance. Oban, Banchory and Aboyne are the locations that immediately spring to mind but there were many more . It was great to see so many young folk taking part in our sport and enjoying themselves .....despite the weather.

Many thanks to those who planned and ran the event and well done to everyone who took part.

Click here to see photos from this event.

Click here to see the provisional results.

Two members of Solway at the Scottish Schools Champs.

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

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.

What's new?

The next event is on Wednesday 19th June.